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Mondlane’s vote surge overturns the status quo

Railing against joblessness and hardship, young voters deserted Frelimo and long-time opposition Renamo

Ruling party Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) and leading opposition politician Venâncio Mondlane, an independent who ran on the ticket of the tiny Partido Otimista pelo Desinvolvimento...

Wild card Mondlane tests ruling party’s election tactics

After 50 years in power, Frelimo’s right to rule is on the ballot and national politics will see a generational change

On 9 October, ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) faces its toughest election since multi-party politics started in 1994. A wild card quasi-independent candidate has shaken up...

MK pins its hopes on Shivambu

The new national organiser, who defected from the EFF, is expected to develop clearer policies for the struggling party

Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party has wasted no time in getting its policy tsar to work, laying on motorcades around the provinces with local MK leaders, political...

Three old hats in the presidential ring

Next year’s election will see two previous presidents take on an incumbent still struggling to make his mark amid a sea of scandal and a tanking economy

In less than a year, Malawians go to the polls for the eighth time since the return of multi-party elections in 1994 but this time, the choice is...

Ben-Menashe heads to Gaborone

The flurry of new client activity continues for Ari Ben-Menashe, the Israeli former spy and arms dealer turned political lobbyist. Ben-Menashe, who has taken on Kenya’s former Interior...

Dollars still dominate the economy despite the launch of the ZiG

The country’s largest independent brokerage says the government should restore the trust of its citizens instead of forcing them to abandon the dollar

It has been four months since the introduction of the ‘Zimbabwe Gold’ or ZiG on 8 April and confidence in the currency has not improved. The official exchange...

Paranoia on show as Harare hosts summit

Rights groups outraged as SADC hands its chair to Mnangagwa after security agents arrest and beat up over 100 activists

Such was the ferocity of the government’s assault on civil society activists and oppositionists ahead of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Harare on 17 August,...

Hurdles for Progressive Caucus

The coalition of opposition parties has lost some members to Ramaphosa’s Government of National Unity while another is embroiled in the VBS scandal

When the United Democratic Movement’s Bantu Holomisa and Economic Freedom Fighters’ Julius Malema called a press conference on the morning of 14 June at the Cape Town Convention...

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