Cape Town News
Jacob Zuma announced his new cabinet line-up on 10 May, the day after being sworn in as South Africa's fourth democratically elected president in Pretoria.
Perhaps the biggest novelty is the appoint...
Cape Town News
On 6 May the 400 newly elected members of the national assembly, South Africa
Nairobi News
Kenya Speaker Marende to chair house business committee.
As political tension rises again in Kenya the parliamentary speaker Kenneth Marende has decided to chair the house business committee (HBC) on an interim basis.
The decision comes after prime minist...
Cape Town News
The rise and rise of Helen Zille.
Leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) Helen Zille is set to become the premier of the Western Cape after her party won a clear majority of the popular vote in provincial elections on 22 April. This w...
Cape Town News
The African National Congress (ANC) has won the national elections in South Africa but lost the two-thirds majority in parliament needed to make constitutional changes unilaterally. Final results give...
Cape Town News
Zille new Western Cape premier.
Mayor of Cape Town Helen Zille is to become premier of the Western Cape provincial government after her party, Democratic Alliance (DA), took the province from the national ruling ANC in the 22 April...
Cape Town News
ANC set for decisive win in South Africa polls.
The African National Congress (ANC) looks set for a decisive victory in South Africa
Cape Town News
South Africans cast their vote.
Polling stations have opened in South Africa for what some observers say are the most exciting general elections since the end of apartheid in 1994.
Over 23 million citizens out of a total population...
Maputo News
Mozambique elections in October.
Mozambique is to hold general elections on 28 October and not in December as earlier thought.
Incumbent president Armando Guebuza of the ruling FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation Front) will be standing...
Cape Town News
Voting in presidential and parliamentary elections officially ended at 21.00 local time although election officials said earlier in the day that anyone already in line to vote at that point would be a...
Cape Town News
South Africa prepares for elections.
Political parties in South Africa held their final rallies ahead of general elections on 22 April.
Jacob Zuma, leader and presidential candidate for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) addres...
Cape Town News
South African ex-pats cast their vote.
South Africans in the diaspora are casting their vote in national and provincial elections a week before the country officially goes to the polls. Nearly 18,000 South African ex-pats registered to vot...
Nairobi News
Two cabinet members have resigned in the space of less than 24 hours, highlighting the growing tensions within the government of national unity.
Martha Karua quit her post as justice minister on 6 Ap...
Cairo News
Calls by political activists to hold a nationwide strike on 6 April went largely unheeded amid a large-scale deployment of security forces and reports of intimidation. The strike had been called by th...
Cairo News
April 6 youth call for general strike.
Egyptians are being urged to strike on 6 April in protest against corruption, political repression and the rising cost of living in the country. The protest is being organised by the April 6 Youth Mov...
Cape Town News
Bishop Mvhume Dandala to lead COPE.
Methodist bishop Mvhume Dandala has been chosen as the presidential candidate of South Africa
Cape Town News
South African elections on 22 April.
On 22 April South Africans will go to the polls to elect their next parliament and provincial assemblies, interim president Kgalema Motlanthe has said. In a speech published on the website of the pres...
