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/ 30 November 2007

Mbeki bares his knuckles

The gloves are really off. A campaign to ”set the record straight about Jacob Zuma” is central to a fight-back plan by President Thabo Mbeki’s strategists, aimed at giving him a third term as party leader at the Polokwane conference. The campaign is set to resurrect Zuma’s links with fraud convict Schabir Shaik, and his controversial rape trial.

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/ 30 November 2007

Intimidation and bribery as Putin prepares for victory

The Kremlin is planning to rig the results of Russia’s parliamentary elections on Sunday by forcing millions of public sector workers across the country to vote, the <i>Guardian</i> has reported. Local administration officials have called in thousands of staff on their day off in an attempt to engineer a massive and inflated victory for President Vladimir Putin.