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From left: Spectrum Party leader Christopher Claassen, United Independent Movement’s Neil de Beer, IFP leader Velenkosini Hlabisa, DA leader John Steenhuisen, Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Groenewald, ActionSA president Herman Mashaba and the Independent SA National Civic Organisation’s Zukile Luyenge on the first day of the national convention on coalitions at Emperors Palace, Kempton Park, 17 August 2023. (Photo: Twitter / @Our_DA)

Déjà vu as Multi-Party Charter unveils economic plan

In trying to provide an alternative to the ANC, the new political grouping has fallen into old traps

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The most important elections in the Americas is in Brazil

Former president Lula is in the lead in the polls ahead of the first round of elections on 2 October. These elections will be transformative for Brazil and will ramifications…

Supporters protest against former president Lula da Silva’s 12-year prison term. The popular leader’s absence from the ballot in October’s elections has left the field wide open. (Marcelo Chello/AFP)

Brazil, weary of corruption, faces bleak poll

Blighted by a series of political scandals, the country’s hard-won democracy is on the skids

First Brazilian president to face corruption charges is expected to walk free

Brazil’s most unpopular president in decades Michel Temer is charged with serious crimes but he is expected to avoid standing trial.

According to the state’s summary of substantial facts, Mzolo’s relationship with Khumalo had ended in March or April, and “he did not take it well”. (Image: Thuli Dlamini)

Former Brazil President Lula da Silva, wife and six others charged with corruption

Da Silva could face arrest for receiving an apartment from one of the engineering and construction firms in the Petrobras scandal.

​New President Temer’s 2018 plans rattle Brazil’s fragile coalition politics

His tenure is based on taking unpopular decisions and clearing the way for wannabe presidents.

Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff ousted by Senate, Michel Temer sworn in

​Brazil’s Senate ousted President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday, ending an impeachment process that polarsed Latin America’s biggest country.

Coal, a key fuel for electricity production, is a major producer of carbon dioxide emissions, a major driver of global warming. (Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters)

​The Olympic Games and the battle to be allowed to voice protest in Brazil

Residents’ anger about the economic recession and political ineptitude can’t be kept away from the Rio 2016 Olympics.

Crisis mode: Women shout slogans during a protest against Brazil’s interim President Michel Temer

New fraud mars Temer’s deficit win

Brazil’s leader has called the budget approval a ‘beautiful victory’ for planned austerity measures

Nation divided: Raucous ­opposition supporters watch the impeachment vote taking place in the lower house on big screens.

Rousseff’s supporters play for time

The beleagured Workers’ Party believes people will tire quickly of the opposition leaders.

Justice: Demonstrators in São Paulo protest against corruption linked to the government and a state-run oil company. Tens of thousands of Brazilians marched in other cities.

Brazil erupts after tapped calls exposé

Brazilians want the president to resign for trying to help her predecessor avoid corruption charges.

Brazilians are demanding the impeachment of their president

Brazilians demand Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment

Tens of thousands of Brazilians, angered by a massive corruption scandal, took to the streets to protest against President Dilma Rousseff.

Odds stacked against Brazil leader

Dilma Rousseff goes into her second term facing greater challenges than her first time around.

Supporters of Brazil’s President and Workers’ Party

Brazil divided after Rousseff takes second presidential term

Dilma Rousseff’s re-election has left Brazil divided – half being grateful for gains against poverty, while the other criticised economic stagnation.

Will Brazilians say Neves again?

The left has run the country since 2003, but now is presented with a very real threat from the conservative elite.

A man holds a Brazilian flag in front of two police officer outside Ana Rosa subway station during the fifth day of metro workers’ protest.

Brazil’s workers’ movement calls off World Cup protests

Days before the start of the World Cup, Brazil’s Homeless Workers’ Movement has reached a deal with authorities not to protest during the tournament.

Afro-Brazilian activists say there has been ‘some progress in 500 years’ towards equality

Black Brazilian workers for ‘more representative’ administration

More than half of Brazil’s population has African roots, and the state has now approved a law creating 20% quotas for black people in government jobs.

Brazilians are demanding the impeachment of their president

Adidas pulls World Cup shirts with ‘sexual appeal’

Adidas has pulled its raunchy World Cup T-shirts after Brazil’s government complained that it was promoting sex tourism in the country.

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Brazil not considering asylum for Snowden

After Edward Snowden’s open letter, Brazil says it’s not considering granting asylum to him as the country has not received a formal request.

Tens of thousands join teachers’ protest in Rio

This week’s teachers march in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro has drawn the biggest turnout since the wave of protests during the Confederations Cup in June.