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SOUTH AFRICA’S President Cyril Ramaphosa today slammed the country’s main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party after it called on the United States and European countries to monitor the May elections.
The DA made the request in a letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and some European foreign affairs ministers last week.
President Ramaphosa told the South African Broadcasting Corporation: “The DA’s letter to the US government is quite disingenuous and it is almost trying to sell our country to other powers in the world.”
ADRIAN WEIR charts the intercontinental trade union solidarity with Cuba and its desperate predicament
As the Alliance of Sahel States and southern African nations advance pan-African goals, the African Union must listen and learn rather than parroting the Western line on these positive developments, writes ROGER McKENZIE
The shared path of the South African Communist Party and the ANC to the ballot box has found itself at a junction. SABINA PRICE reports
The charter emerged from a profoundly democratic process where people across South Africa answered ‘What kind of country do we want?’ — but imperial backlash and neoliberal compromise deferred its deepest transformations, argues RONNIE KASRILS