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/ 24 February 2009
The IFP is the victim of political violence rather than the perpetrator, member of KwaZulu-Natal parliament Blessed Gwala said on Tuesday.
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/ 3 February 2009
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe on Tuesday laid the blame for violence in northern KwaZulu-Natal at the feet of the Inkatha Freedom Party.
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/ 2 February 2009
The ANC has denounced incidents of political violence which left several of their members injured after they were shot at and pelted with stones.
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/ 23 October 2008
The DA has called on the Independent Electoral Commission to act and quell political violence and intimidation, the party said on Thursday.
Residents wishing to leave restricted rural areas have to seek ‘authorisation’ letters. In an indication of how blatant election-related violence has become in Zimbabwe, witnesses have described how a 24-year-old man was chased into a police station in Muzarabani, north of Harare, last Sunday and beaten to death.
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/ 18 December 2006
The political violence in South Africa’s history has been replaced by criminal violence, former president FW de Klerk said on Sunday. ”The violence of today is as devastating as the violence of the past,” he said, speaking on Robben Island off Cape Town at a commemoration of the role played by Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa.
The arrest of two men in connection with the murder of South African Communist Party member Mazwi Zulu in Durban’s troubled Umlazi township tends to contradict African National Congress claims that the violence is criminal rather than political. Nkosiyabo Ngubane and Sphiwe Nene were arrested at the home of Bhekisasa Xulu, the ANC councillor for Ward 80.
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/ 27 September 2005
At least 29 people were injured over the weekend when supporters of rival parties clashed in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar ahead of October elections, police and witnesses said on Monday. Opposing parties’ supporters fought with metal bars and stones after leaving separate campaign rallies late on Sunday.
Arsonists set fire to three homes and a branch opposition party office in Zanzibar on Thursday, as political violence escalated ahead of elections on the semi-autonomous Tanzanian island. Despite a suspension in voter registration for the October polls intended to ease rising tension between Zanzibar’s rival parties, attackers used gasoline to set fire to the houses and the office at dawn
Arsonists set fire to a Zanzibari opposition leader’s home and protesters attempted to raid a voter registration centre, as violence flared months ahead of elections in the semi-autonomous archipelago, and the Zanzibar Electoral Commision suspended a voter registration drive on Monday.