The protesters outside court vouching for embattled Jacob Zuma were largely female. Women with his photo emblazoned across their chests. Women honking vuvuzelas in his support. Selling T-shirts to raise funds for his defence. Burning images of the woman who dared lay a rape charge against him.
In Khutsong residents enforced an election boycott by burning at least two houses belonging to known African National Congress activists. During the day residents played soccer and generally stayed away from the polls, but at night rampaging youths stoned and burnt the houses of an ANC candidate and an ANC party agent.
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/ 24 February 2006
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/262374/vote-box_blue.gif" align=left>The African National Congress is fighting its toughest election yet. The ruling party’s monolithic hold on power is showing distinct cracks, as strongholds have splintered from Khutsong in Gauteng, where residents have staged running battles with authorities, to Khayelitsha in the Western Cape, where a feisty group of independents has challenged for power and Matatiele in KwaZulu-Natal where the former ANC mayor has formed a breakaway party.
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/ 17 February 2006
Residents expressed their disgust at the incorporation decision and told the Mail & Guardian they would resist the move to the bitter end.
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/ 17 February 2006
<b>Monako Dibetle</b> took a walk down his streets to find out what friends and neighbours are thinking about the local election.
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/ 1 February 2006
The level crossing at the intersection of Main Reef and Roodepoort roads, west of Johannesburg, might seem an unlikely site for a 24-hour fresh-fruit market driven by market mammies from Mpumalanga. But the 20-odd women know their market — they’ve set up shop on the main taxi and bus route to Soweto from central Jo’burg.
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/ 27 January 2006
The ANC has pledged to weed out candidates with
skeletons in their closets, but a few have slipped the net.
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/ 16 January 2006
The government’s slogan of "Batho Pele" promises a return to our cultural values of putting people before all else. But anyone who uses public health services knows that people are generally put last — often after nurses’ tea breaks and chats. Children cry uncontrollably, the infirm slump in wheelchairs, and the elderly sprawl on the benches.
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/ 25 November 2005
Border cricket has been at the forefront of the United Cricket Board’s youth development programme since 1987 and is regarded as the best in the country. The programme provides schools and clubs with equipment every year in order to help them participate in their fixtures.
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/ 18 November 2005
”The loudspeaker at Johannesburg’s Park Station announces the arrival of train 9426 for Soweto, and commuters trample each another to catch what might be the last train for a long time. I am forced through a narrow door with at least 15 other people. We’re all tired, sweaty and squashed as the train moves off,” writes the Mail&Guardian‘s Monako Dibetle.