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South Africa Prepares for General Elections Next Year: Registration begins

21Nov

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South Africa Prepares for General Elections Next Year: Registration begins

South Africa will be holding General and provincial elections next year 2024.1 On Saturday the country held its first major vote registration drive on Saturday in a bid to tackle widespread apathy ahead of those elections.2 Voter disillusionment is largely due to wide spread corruption in the ruling party. This has impacted all levels of government at national, provincial and local in terms of both state capture and the misappropriation of public funds. Polling stations across the country opened their doors to let would-be-voters register or check their details as part of a two-day exercise to woo electors back to the ballots after years of dwindling participation.3 However the air is heavy with pessimism; “I’m hoping that these elections are going to change South Africa, ...

Zimbabwe Elections Approach Opposition face Setback

The reality that little has changed in Zimbabwe is becoming starker with the approaching general election. The nation is in dire need of a new constitution and judicial reform but his is elusive. President Emmerson Mnangagwa known as ‘the crocodile’ is tightening his grip. The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) was dealt an unfortunate set back in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second largest city, one of its key support bases.1 The court there nullified the candidature of 12 of its parliamentary contestants ahead of the general election.2 Bulawayo is known as being a stronghold of the opposition and this court ruling is seen as giving Mnangagwa’s ruling Zanu-PF Party a walkover.3 In the last election of 2018 the opposition – then known as the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) - los...

Elections in Türkiye will be underway on May the 14: what are Issues?

Turkey’s elections are to be under way in May the 14 and expected to draw millions.1 Due to a declining economy and a major earth quake earlier this year, this election is said to be Turkish President Recip Tayip Erdogan’s biggest test after 20 years in power.2 According to Turkey’s constitution presidential and parliamentary elections are to be held on the same day, with the president being elected directly and the parliament being elected according to proportional representation according to a given area.3 Erdogan is stuck between a rock and a hard place, on the one hand with rising inflation due to the economy and his failure to press for better retrieval of those trapped in the rubble of the previous earthquake have left him unpopular.4 Meanwhile the opposition has seized the opportu...