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EFF Gets a Million Votes

Economic Freedom Fighters cracked the million vote mark in their first national elections.  This meant the party had more than 6% of the national votes in Spoth Africa's 2014 election. The votes could secure at least 20 seats in Parliament. For a seat in Parliament, a political party needs about 47 000 votes.

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When Blair Left 10 Downing Street

Tony Blair announces that he ia stepping down after 10 years as prime minister and 13 as Labour leader. Blair will be remembered for his support for the USA invasion of Iraq. Blair rallied to America's aid after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and committed British troops to the U.S. invasion in 2003. He did so despite opposition from a majority of British citizens. One million anti-war demonstrators marched in London's Trafalgar Square shortly before U.S. and British troops rolled into Iraq.

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The Apprentice

When the ANC chooses its new leader later in 2007, the party will in effect be deciding the identity of the next South African President. Tokyo Sexwale could be a serious contender for the top job in South African politics but will he run? Sexwale in as public a fashion as is possible in South Africa – on the evening television news – his availability for election as the ANC's, and therefore South Africa's, next president. Conventional wisdom is that an ANC member who discusses a candidacy in public thereby rules himself or herself out of contention. In ANC tradition, leaders do not, at least publicly, vie for office. Instead, they pronounce themselves loyal and disciplined party members who await "deployment" to wherever the party most needs them, while lobbying goes on behind the scenes. - The Apprentice is a reality TV talent game show franchise.

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ANC Struggle Legacy - Credit Extended Only to 2019

In South Africa's first national election since the death of its former leader, Nelson Mandela. African National Congress (ANC) has maintained its majority despite huge scandals and terrible performance on everything from combating crime to promoting economic growth. Since 2009, the ANC has had a poor record in government. There has been a steady increase in violent protests against local-government corruption and the shoddiness of public services. The police response to a wildcat strike in August 2012 left 34 miners dead. The economy has stalled. Barely two out of five adults of working age have jobs. Delays in building new power stations mean the state-owned electricity company cannot always keep the lights on. In March, the public protector found that Jacob Zuma had benefited unduly from public money spent on his home. Despite all this, the ANC has gained slightly more than 62% of the vote again. People have voted once more because the ANC was the main organisation that liberated the country from the apartheid regime rather than on what it has done for the masses.

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SA Elections 2014 : IEC Controls the Voting via Marked Thumbs

IEC staff inked the left thumbs of all those who voted. The ink is special and will not wash off for several days. It will show all those who participated and prevented people from voting more than once. ID books were also stamped to show who has voted. City Press reported that a  number of voters claimed to have been able to remove the indelible ink applied to each voter’s left thumb and thumbnail when voting.   IEC deputy chairperson Terry Tselane responded by saying that they were lying.  At least one reporter from City Press managed to clean his finger shortly after casting a special vote on Monday.. Asked whether there are ways to verify that a voter didn’t vote twice, Tselane admitted that this could only be done if someone objected.

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Born Free - Voting for the First Time

In April 1994 apartheid in South Africa ended, giving way to the country's first free and fair elections. Twenty years later, the 'born free' generation – those born in 1994 or afterwards, following the collapse of the apartheid system – are looking forward to their first chance to vote. Just over 600,000 South Africans were born in the year that the ANC was voted into office, with a similar number in the following two years. Not all have register to vote, but there could be half million new voters casting their ballots for the first time when the next general election takes place on the 7th May 2014. This is over 5% of the electorate.

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How Clean is Tlakula's IEC?

Following a forensic investigation by the national treasury on the procurement of the IEC's Riverside Office Park building in Centurion, opposition parties (United Democratic Movement, the African Christian Democratic Party, the Congress of the People, Agang SA, and the Economic Freedom Fighters) want Tlakula to resign as Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) chair ahead of the May 7 national elections. The probe found the procurement process was neither fair, transparent, nor cost-effective. It found Tlakula did not give guidance or formally inform various people what was expected of them in the process. The court – sitting in the high court in Johannesburg – would hear the inquiry into the allegations of corruption on 2nd May 2014 - five days before the election. Tlakula has maintained she is not accused of corruption in the report.

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20 Years of Democracy

South Africa approaches 20 years of democracy. Zapiro's collage cartoon including the icon Nelson Mandela, Mr. Delivery - Thabo Mbeki and finally Jacob Zuma with his hand in the till.

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20 Years Previous : When Apartheid was in Place

Established in 1948 under the National Party, apartheid not only meant separate and inferior public services, benches and building entrances for non-whites. It also stripped South African blacks of their citizenship (placing them into tribally-based bantustans instead) and abolished all non-white political representation. Moving South Africa past its apartheid culture has not been easy. The country still wrestles with significant racial issues.

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20 Years After - Desmond Tutu's Dampened Celebration of Freedom Day

After the historic April 27, 1994, the day has been retained as a holiday and named Freedom Day. For many South Africans it brings back sweet memories of the euphoria as black, Indian, and mixed race voters stood in long meandering lines -- alongside whites -- to cast their first ballots. Desmond Tutu said the day felt like "falling in love."  But 20 years on, the euphoria has died down and the country is counting both the gains and failures of the democratic era. South Africa boasts among other things, one of the strongest constitutions in the world, an independent judiciary and is probably the most developed country on the continent. But the successes are tainted by mismanagement and high level corruption blamed largely on the ANC-led administration. As we celebrate the first Freedom Day in 20 years without Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has expressed disappointment with the ANC, saying its leadership isn't as strong as it used to be. The Archbishop Emeritus never imagined South Africans would be disillusioned so soon after the dawn of democracy. Tutu lashed out at current ANC leaders, saying he doesn't support the party today the way he did 20 years ago.

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