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Can Jacob Zuma emerge as kingmaker in South Africa’s election?

Zuma’s MK party is gaining in polls while ANC support slips. But is he still as influential outside the ruling party?

Al Jazeera

Let us remember the last time students occupied Columbia University

In 1985, Columbia students occupied campus to push for divestment from South Africa. Five months later, the university cut ties to the apartheid regime after years of dragging its feet

The Guardian - US

Why South Africa’s opposition may struggle to unseat the ruling ANC

Despite the ANC facing possible voter decline this election, analysts say the opposition is splintered and disorganised.

Al Jazeera

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South Africa Gears Up For Close May Vote

South Africans vote next month in a general election that could bring about the most significant political change in three decades, with the ruling African National Congress at risk of losing its parliamentary majority.

International Business Times

BHP’s pursuit of Anglo American has a major obstacle: South Africa

The De Beers owner is a longstanding jewel in the African' state’s economic crown – it would be a ‘big blow’ to see it sold off

The Guardian - UK

South Africa Marks 30 Years Since End Of Apartheid

South Africa marks 30 years since the end of apartheid, facing challenges and political shifts. President Cyril Ramaphosa reflects on the past while acknow...

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South Africa: 30 years after apartheid, what has changed?

Big socio-political gains have followed apartheid but the legacy of racism and segregation is still starkly visible.

Al Jazeera

Gupkar Alliance in J&K | Timeline of its formation, electoral success and its current status

Gupkar Alliance: The PAGD alliance in Jammu and Kashmir faces breakdown as NC and PDP clash over seat-sharing for upcoming elections.

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The day apartheid died: South Africa’s first free elections – archive, 1994

In April 1994, the country held its first all-race, democratic elections. See how the Guardian reported events

France 24

South Africa's ANC loses copyright case against Zuma's new party

In tonight's edition: A South African high court judge dismisses a case brought by the ruling ANC that had accused the MK party of copyright infringement. Also, flooding hits many parts of Kenya, sweeping away vehicles, submerging key highways and sending some communities scrambling to find higher ground. Staying in…

Al Jazeera

‘I am prepared to die’: Mandela’s speech which shook apartheid

Sixty years ago at the Rivonia Trial, Nelson Mandela made one of the most famous speeches of the 20th century.

Al Jazeera

Jacob Zuma’s nine lives: How South Africa’s ex-president keeps coming back

Zuma has survived a series of political setbacks and legal challenges. Now he’s challenging President Cyril Ramaphosa.

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Al Jazeera

‘We share with rats’: Neglect, empty promises for S African hostel-dwellers

Built to house a male workforce under apartheid, hostels are now overcrowded, decaying and largely ignored by the state.

International Business Times

South Africa Fragmented Opposition Jostles For Visibility

On a stretch of grass doubling as a parking lot in an impoverished Johannesburg township, a group of party activists chanted "we need new leaders!"

Radio France Internationale

South Africa's ANC struggles with corruption scandals ahead of key elections

As South Africa heads toward general elections set for 29 May, the country's dominant political party, the African National Congress (ANC), finds itself dogged by allegations of deep-rooted corruption.

Al Jazeera

South Africa’s election body asks top court to resolve Zuma candidacy

Former President Jacob Zuma hopes to run for office for the opposition uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK) in May elections.

International Business Times

S.Africa's Electoral Body Takes Zuma Case To Constitutional Court

South Africa's electoral commission said Friday that it had appealed to the country's highest court to rule on whether ex-president Jacob Zuma can stand in a general election in May.

Radio France Internationale

South Africa's Zuma wins court bid to run in May election

A court in South Africa has ruled that former president Jacob Zuma can stand in next month's general elections, overturning a decision by electoral authorities to bar him over a criminal conviction.

Al Jazeera

Thirty years after apartheid, South Africa’s failed housing promise

Ahead of key elections, hundreds of thousands in need of homes in opposition-run Western Cape languish on waiting lists.

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