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Opposition political parties face tough questions about their future if — as expected — they perform poorly at the polls this election. Over three elections, more small parties have gained parliamentary representation, but the overall space for opposition parties has shrunk, courtesy of the continued growth of the ruling African National Congress.
The ANC is still closest to the newspaper’s core values of constitutionalism, social democracy and non-racialism.
With election lies reaching fever pitch, I thought I’d take a stroll down to the bottom of my garden to see how the fairies were doing in their preparations for Wednesday. I’d noticed a lot of what looked like badly designed postage stamps, hanging on gladioli and delphinium stems, glued to the sides of the potting shed. On close examination these turned out to be the election posters of the tiny people.
Les Saintes and Marie-Galante were both named and claimed by Christopher Columbus on the same day in November 1493. Subsequently they became — and remain — French, part of Guadeloupe. These two little-known islands offer the chic and ‘authentique’ sides of the French Caribbean.
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"I thought I knew about apartheid, but it’s different when you hear people’s memories about how this place impacted on their lives. It surprised me to find out how people were treated here." Young South Africans employed as tour guides at Constitution Hill have a revelatory take on recent history.
<i>Escape</i>, together with Forever Aventura Resorts, is offering a lucky reader the chance to win a super getaway for six people at Aventura Blydepoort, on the edge of the beautiful Blyde River Canyon in Mpumalanga. To win, answer the following question: Which two rivers meet at Bourke’s Luck potholes?
Many of Baghdad’s Shiite and Sunni Muslims on Wednesday rallied behind embattled firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr whose banned militia is facing a nationwide assault by US-led coalition forces. Al-Sadr meanwhile called for power in Iraq to be handed over to ”honest men” and not to collaborators of the US-led occupation.
South Africa apologised to Rwanda on Wednesday for not ”crying out” loud enough when hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives in 100 days of genocide in that country in 1994. ”We did not cry out as loudly as we should have,” President Thabo Mbeki told a commemoration ceremony in the Rwandan capital of Kigali.
About 20 Palestinians were lightly hurt on Wednesday as Israeli troops fired teargas and rubber bullets at protesters demonstrating against the West Bank separation barrier, medical sources said. At least one of the casualties was struck by a rubber-coated bullet while others suffered from the effects of tear gas.