political parties of South Africa

On Thursday, his name became an irresistible clickbait that crammed the small conference hall at the Delhi Press Club even though the occasion wasn't prime-time material – the announcement of a regional political party's name. The name, as it turned out, was Hamro Sikkim (Our Sikkim), and by evening, ...

The area of concern with the EFF's political approach emerges when the party ignores the big picture that South Africa achieved its democracy through the conflict management technique of negotiation, which translated into a settlement between the conflicting parties. These parties had to compromise and ...

Lastly, the DA would know that the Constitutional Court has ruled on the rights of members of political parties to participate in activities of their own party. ... The right to belong to a political party was at the heart of the struggle for freedom, the Constitutional Court reminded the ANC in the Ramakatsa decision ...

Granville Abrahams from the IEC told Political Analysis South Africa on Tuesday, 24 April 2018 that the surge in new political parties being registered can be attributed to the upcoming general elections. ... Abrahams says the South African constitution provides for political rights, and that includes setting up a political party.

Dr Makhosi Khoza, who resigned from the ANC last year and formed her own political party, the African Democratic Change (ADeC), has announced she is ... She highlighted the plight of the South African education system as a passion, pointing to her research in an isiZulu language mathematical logic ...

HARARE - While there are at least 118 political parties registered to take part in this year's harmonised elections, few of them will survive until election day with others vanishing after elections. This is not the first election that has been dominated by such political parties with suspicions most of them are ...

Cal Students for Equal Rights and a Valid Education, or CalSERVE, was founded in 1984 in response to apartheid South Africa. ... DAAP, another prominent political party on campus, began in the late 1990s when affirmative action became contested, according to Stephanie Gutierrez, DAAP's presidential ...

Such behaviour adds credence to the presumption that political parties in South Africa are just for-profit businesses. ... What this really means is that when we cast our vote in National elections, we are also meekly surrendering any, and all power we might have to political party leaders. That they are so ...

Despite his good intentions, Ramaphosa didn't come into the presidency of the ANC as politically strong as was his predecessor, Zuma, when he took over ... well and succeeds in pulling South Africa from the edge of a reputational precipice are in the party he leads; not in the broader South African society.

In this regard, the AUEOM noted that the national broadcaster tended to provide live and in-depth coverage largely to a single political party. We therefore call upon the public media to grant equal coverage to all political parties as we are already in the election season. In this regard, there is urgent need for ...

The ANC called for all sectors of society and all political parties to protest and publicly show disdain for the municipality green lighting Hofmeyr's concert. Virgil Gericke, the leader of George political party Plaaslike Besorgde Inwoners, said he had seen proof that the initial agreement for the lease of the city ...

When I look at the politics of other parties, I wonder if the IFP is a political party at all! We are far more like a family than a political party. The IFP understands that what is good for each family member must also be good for the family. South Africa is a deeply unequal society. It is not just about some having ...

Mr Malema's tweets have consequences, not least because he is the leader of a political party with substantial representation and support across South Africa. The first of these consequences have been threats to individual journalists in the wake of his online messages. At any other time in our country's ...

The organisation also said: "This litigation process aims to reform our political system by making it more transparent to the South African public, therefore allowing the public to hold political representatives and political organisations more accountable, not only on election day, but also in between elections.".

Late in 2017, the High Court ordered Parliament to amend Paia to allow for the disclosure of private political party funding information. ... "This judgment, once confirmed, will provide a necessary change to South African politics, where political parties will no longer operate in secret and allow for greater ...

The ANC has fallen a long way from its glory days, but it is a legitimate and democratic political party that still commands the loyalty of many, perhaps most South Africans. Now that Zuma has finally quit, Ramaphosa, a competent and by all accounts an honest man, can get started on rebuilding the party's ...

In Kenya, political parties are cobbled up in the run-up to a General Election and act as special purpose vehicles which quickly decline and outlive their ... every successive election since then has been won by a different political party even in instances where the same presidential candidate was on the ...

Mosery said political killings have been a serious concern for the Electoral Commission because of their impact on the voting public and how they ... or political differences are within a political party‚ firstly it is difficult to identify who are differing parties to that tension or conflict within the political parties.

It proposed legislative amendments and new regulations to allow for public scrutiny of political party funding. For the first time parties would have to make the names of their donors public, declare where they got their funds from and release how much they received from donors. This follows years of civil ...

In both South Africa and Ethiopia, the dominant political party grew complacent and corrupt, and suffered decay. ... In both cases, two of the oldest liberation parties in Africa, which have remained in office since first coming to power a quarter-century ago, were forced by deep popular discontent to push their ...

PARLIAMENT - In a rare show of unity among political foes in South Africa, all parties represented in Parliament have agreed - Thursday is D-Day for ... and Wednesday the budget speech by the new minister of Finance," said Floyd Shivambu, chief whip of the country's third largest political party, Economic ...

Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) South Africa was plunged into political turmoil on Tuesday when the country's ruling African National Congress ... their recall demand -- which has no constitutional effect -- or cling on to power and face a vote of no confidence in parliament organized by opposition parties.

A political expert in Malawi has urged political parties to learn from South African ruling political party African National Congress (ANC) on dealing with corrupt leaders. Political ... He later paid back the money after the Supreme Court in South Africa ordered him to give back taxpayers' money. He is also ...

The African Democratic Change (ADeC) political party has on Sunday welcomed the resignation of its former president Makhosi Khoza, slamming her ... Last month, an intense battle for the control of Khoza's new party came to light, with Thokozani Msomi, who claimed to be the party's deputy president, ...

PRETORIA, March 16 (Xinhua) -- South African political parties, former presidents and civil society on Friday welcomed the reinstatement of corruption charges against former ... The opposition political party, Democratic Alliance (DA) applied to the courts for the charges against Zuma to be reinstated.

Of significance these parties are the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the African National Congress (South Africa), Chama Cha ... And there was an intention to set up a liberation struggle institute for the region, which at some point former South African President announced in one of ...