By Lawrence Paganga (Harare) – The main MDC party on Friday launched a new membership card in Harare as the party gears on a recruitment drive and strengthening its structures ahead of national elections next year. Speaking at the event on Friday, MDC president, Morgan Tsvangirai told hundreds of gathered people that as a post-liberation party, the MDC was born to protect and promote the ideals of the liberation struggle. “We represent the natural successor to the continuing struggle to build the type of nation our heroes sacrificed so much to achieve,” he said. The party said over 3 million Zimbabweans... Continue Reading
By Mark Oloo in Nairobi – Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki will tomorrow promulgate a new constitution at an exclusive ceremony attended by eight African heads of state and government. Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan and a team of eminent African personalities will also attend the event at the capital, Nairobi. Security has been tightened in the capital, with police restricting civilian access to areas around parliament and Uhuru Park, where the historic signing will be held from 8.15am tomorrow. At a press briefing yesterday, Kenya’s secretary to the Cabinet Francis Muthaura said the country’s military will stage numerous martial... Continue Reading
Issued By Jackson Mthembu, ANC National Spokesperson African National Congress It is very unfortunate that Helen Zille in her desperate attempt to justify the swallowing of the Independent Democrats by the Democratic Alliance when addressing a press conference resorted to peddling misleading lies about corruption thriving under the ANC governance and about the Constitution being under threat. These are tired scarecrow tactics that could not sustain COPE and that would not hold DA-ID marriage together. We will not dwell on refuting the vows of this marriage founded on a lie and which can only be sustained by more lies. All... Continue Reading
By Peroshni Govender (JOHANNESBURG) – South Africa’s largest opposition party said Sunday it would merge with a small party but analysts said it was unlikely to pose a major challenge to the African National Congress in the 2014 election. The Democratic Alliance (DA) and the small Independent Democrats (ID) said they hoped their new alliance would capitalize on growing frustrations with the ANC over crime and the provision of education, health care and electricity. “This event today must merely be seen as the first step in the important task of consolidating the opposition and offering voters a true alternative government,”... Continue Reading
South Africa’s ANC party said that the indications by the Democratic Alliance that it will engage in whatever means, including employing underhand methods, to influence targeted ANC MPs to vote against the Protection of Information Bill is a serious affront to the integrity of parliament and established democratic processes. “As the leading opposition party, the DA should respect the available avenues provided for by our constitutional democracy and contribute superior arguments to influence the process, rather than strike secret deals, including dispensing cash parcels, to woo MPs to vote in its favour,” said the Office of the ANC Chief Whip, ANC Parliamentary... Continue Reading
