Former President Jacob Zuma is not eligible to stand as a candidate for parliament in the upcoming National and Provincial elections.The constitutional court made the ruling this morning overturning an earlier decision by the electoral court which declared him fit to stand.The judgement does not affect MK party’s decision to have Zuma as the face [...]

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The National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure (NATJOINTS) has sought to assure South Africans that a conducive environment for a peaceful election has been prepared. This emerged during a media briefing held in Pretoria, led by the South African Police Service (SAPS), the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) and the State Security Agency (SSA), [...]

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Former President Jacob Zuma has become the latest to call out what he believes to be meddling in South Africa’s electoral politics by foreign interests. Zuma who presented the MK party’s manifesto in Soweto on Saturday expressed frustration with the number of new parties and said they were formed to derail transformation. “That is why [...]

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Thousands of Palestinian citizens in northern Gaza are without food and water following an Israeli incursion that has claimed several lives on both sides and lasted for a week. In order to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian residents seeking refuge in the war-torn city of southern Rafah, Israel intends to increase army levels [...]

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