Kenyan police officers face off with anti-tax protesters outside the Kenyan parliament building in Nairobi on 25 June 2024.
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The hope is for pragmatism to drive a transition process. Obsessive adherence to ideological preferences will not build national unity or a sound foreign policy.
Somali National Army trainee officers.
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Elite political culture matters, especially in the context of a unity government. To succeed, party leaders must embrace the politics of collaboration built on trust.
The Hector Pieterson Memorial in Soweto honours school children who were murdered by apartheid police in June 1976.
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Former president Jacob Zuma’s MK Party borrows the slogan “mayibuye” from the liberation party to make a point about the ruling African National Congress.
South Africans in the UK and other foreign countries voted ahead of the polls opening at home.
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Political secularism in South Africa is shaping into a tense contest between the relative ambitions of state and religious actors.
Acid Mine Drainage in Gauteng, South Africa, has polluted the water and soil in Soweto.
Courtesy Professor Craig Sheridan, University of the Witwatersrand