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South Africa:
Racial Divisions and Pessimism About Democracy Loom Over Elections
Pew, 3 May 2019
A quarter-century after the end of apartheid, South Africans will vote in general elections on May 8 against a backdrop of pessimism over the state of their political system and… Read more »
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South Africa:
Writing the 2019 Elections - A Clear Choice Between Progress and Chaos
Daily Maverick, 6 May 2019
The question of trust is key. It has to do with the integrity of the next president, coupled with capabilities, credibility, perception, and various forms of capital to effectively… Read more »
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South Africa:
Curiouser and Curiouser - the Strange Case of the 2019 Elections
Daily Maverick, 5 May 2019
This has, by any standards, been a rather strange election campaign by the major parties. The ANC is riven with factionalism, the DA spends its time attacking other parties rather… Read more »
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South Africa:
Case Against Voter Apathy - Voting Is the Ultimate Expression of Power
Daily Maverick, 6 May 2019
With the upcoming elections, there has been a lot of speculation about the impact the vote of the born-frees and young adults is likely to have, with some saying that these… Read more »
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South Africa:
Foreign Affairs Goes Missing in Action in the 2019 Election
Daily Maverick, 6 May 2019
Both candidates and parties have given short shrift to explaining their positions on South Africa's crucial foreign and international economic policies, in the about-to-wrap-up… Read more »
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South Africa:
How the Parties Shape Up Come 8 May, Province By Province
Daily Maverick, 6 May 2019
Beneath the political noise and choreographed optics of the 8 May election campaign trail, there are some hard and unpalatable numbers. Various polls indicate the political party… Read more »
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South Africa:
Markets Don't Care About Elections. or Do They?
Daily Maverick, 6 May 2019
Like the election itself, South Africa's markets are in a quandary. The economy is in a poor state, but SA's stock markets are verging on record levels. That quandary poses a… Read more »
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South Africa:
Inside KZN - ANC Hopes for Business As Normal At the Polls in an Often Abnormal Province
Daily Maverick, 6 May 2019
The past weeks have not been kind to KwaZulu-Natal, with provincial floods claiming more than 80 lives and causing R3bn damage, 13 people killed in an Empangeni church collapse, at… Read more »
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South Africa:
A Single EFF Promise That Would Outstrip Eskom's Entire Debt in a Year
Daily Maverick, 6 May 2019
As he wound up the EFF's campaign on Sunday, the party's leader, Julius Malema, won the loudest applause for his promise to double social grants. The cost of that would outstrip… Read more »
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South Africa:
Festival Atmosphere At Final ANC Rally - but Not Everyone Was Listening
Daily Maverick, 6 May 2019
As the ANC held its final election rally at Ellis Park Stadium in Doornfontein before the 8 May elections, a large crowd of party members who had been bused in from across the… Read more »
