Africa Rhetoric and reality — Checking SADC’s compliance with its own Treaty By Ibbo Mandaza and Tony Reeler
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South Africa SA’s May elections unlikely to result in widespread public violence By Lizette Lancaster, Godfrey Mulaudzi and Gareth Newham
Politics ANC praises KZN chairperson’s ‘microphone grab’, but Siboniso Duma will apologise to Zulu king By Chris Makhaye
Elections With contract killings on the rise, demand for bodyguards increases in KwaZulu-Natal By Chris Makhaye
Politics ‘Take the bribe or die’: Nongoma councillors threatened as political violence brings KZN town to its knees By Chris Makhaye
Africa Zimbabwean opposition party member stoned to death after court blow to Mnangagwa By Frank Chikowore
Africa There cannot be any confidence in Zimbabwe’s upcoming polls ‒ and their quality matters enormously By Tony Reeler and Ibbo Mandaza
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