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A mixed response to Kasrils’s call to South African voters
JOHN HAYLETT examines the political reaction to the veteran anti-apartheid activist’s rejection of the African National Congress
ANDREW MURRAY offers some troubling thoughts on pressing political issues
Tensions have once again escalated between Egypt and Ethiopia over GERD, Africa’s largest hydroelectric project, and now Trump has offered to mediate. NICHOLAS MWANGI reports
The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
Former intelligence services minister Ronnie Kasrils grabbed the headlines this week, telling South Africa’s voters not to back the ANC in next month’s general election.
Kasrils joined former deputy health minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, ex-Gauteng provincial Communist Party (SACP) leader Vishwas Satgar and ex-SACP spokesman Mazibuko Jara in launching their Vukani! Sidikiwe! (Wake up! We are fed up!) campaign at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
They called on voters to either spoil their ballot on May 7 or to vote “tactically” for a smaller opposition party, of which there is no shortage.
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