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Bafana Bafana beat Cameroon

Finally, Bafana Bafana is now winning! Last night Bafana Bafana beat Cameroon 3-2 in the Nelson Mandela Challenge played at a packed Olympia Park. This was a game Bafana Bafana just had to win to restore some confidence to a nation which is not 100% the national soccer team.

Why COPE and not DA?

As the political climate in South Africa is gathering a lot of momentum in the build up to the elections next year, there seems to be a lot of debate about which party one will vote for. A lot of talk of late has been about the new Congress

Springbok emblem to stay

Finally sense has prevailed. Earlier in the year, it had been suggested that the South Africa rugby team stop using the Springbok emblem as it was part of the apartheid era and that the King Protea should replace the Springbok. Not many people were too happy about loosing the

The Fear of Violence

With the current political situation in South Africa, there is a fear that we could be headed into a phase of political violence in the build up to an election as we saw in Zimbabwe. Now many would think that this is not possible in South Africa but believe

Malema is at it again

He had been out of the news for a while but now he is back and maybe even louder than ever. ANC Youth League President, Julius Malema is making the headlines again. In the beginning it was all about “Kill for Zuma”, then after that there was the whole

COPE unveils logo

The Congress of the People (COPE) unveiled its logo this weekend. The party’s deputy chairman Mbhazima Shilowa said the logo — a circle with a green cross through and comprising of the other colours of the national flag — was a collective work deriving from a number of suggestions

Democratic Alliance relaunches

The Democratic Alliance unveiled a new DA logo saying the party is launching a new vision for South Africa to make the country’s dream a living reality. The logo was unveiled at Constitution Hill hall in Braamfontein, Johannesburg at a gathering which was attended by about 1000 party followers.

Is COPE Mbeki’s Fault?

Arts and Culture Minister Pallo Jordan has come out and said that the formation of the Congress of the People (COPE) party was due to the “lack of assertiveness and visionary leadership within the ANC over a period of time”, this in reference to the leadership during the Thabo

Smuts Ngonyama resigns from ANC

The exodus of members from the ANC to the COPE (Congress of People) continued today with a big name move. Struggle stalwart Lulama “Smuts” Ngonyama has left the ANC today after 30 years of service to the party and has joined the newly formed COPE headed by Terror Lekota.

ANC to block Congress of the People

The new political party in South Africa which wants to be called the Congress of the People is under pressure as the ruling ANC party are planning to block the new party from adopting this name. The ANC is taking legal advice on the use of the name Congress

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