Meeting the challenges from the opposition will strengthen the ANC’s dominance. How well its new leadership copes will become clearer over the next few months.
South African President Jacob Zuma sings before his opening address at the 54th National Conference of the governing ANC.
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Zuma’s last address to South Africa’s governing party, the ANC, as its president, betrayed his strange way of dealing with issues. He came across as delusional and self-indulgent.
In the transition to democracy in South Africa the promise of a more gender-equal society has struggled to gain traction.
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South Africa’s Constitutional Court has repeatedly stepped in to protect vulnerable people and to perform what former deputy chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke calls its “transformative role”.
South Africa’s Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini with President Jacob Zuma.
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South Africa’s social grants fiasco begs the question: was it orchestrated to undermine the judiciary and the constitution and hide sheer incompetence on the part of government?
People queue to register for government grants in Cape Town, South Africa.
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South Africa’s Constitutional Court is in a fix. The only way to deliver social grants that support millions would be through a process that’s without validation, would be unlawful and invalid.
Social grant recipients waiting in Gugulethu, Cape Town. A battle over social grant payment tender threatens the system.
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The South African Social Security Agency has created a crisis that threatens to deliver social grant recipients on a silver platter into the hands of unscrupulous financial services companies.
Thousands wait in line outside the social services office in Cape Town to register for grants.
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