'Much of our politics is about power and position, not values and convictions...Coalitions that will be forged in the next few weeks will run the gamut from the not-great to the hold-your-nose-and-try-not-to-puke variety' businesslive.co.za/fm/opinion/hom…

LIVE | KZN calamity: ANC set to lose its majority, Jacob Zuma's MK surging across the province news24.com/news24/politic… via @news24

“The sheer number of political assassinations is astonishing in itself, but bullets over ballots clearly undermines South Africa’s peaceful democracy. That the numbers have been increasing since 2010 is even more alarming...” businesslive.co.za/fm/opinion/202…

Africa Check Anim van Wyk Lee_Mwiti Julian Rademeyer Cayley Clifford Peter Cunliffe-Jones Liesl Pretorius Full Fact Or, if you’re South Africa based, please consider supporting Africa Check. You’ll allow them to keep doing the important work of scrutinising claims and holding public figures to account.

africacheck.org/donate

South Africa goes to the polls – in pictures theguardian.com/world/gallery/…

The world is entering a “poly-criminal age” where cross-continental gangs use fraud, synthetic drugs, AI and child sexual abuse to generate profits bigger than the gross domestic products of nation states, a senior figure in Interpol has claimed

In the beginning …

All opinion polls need to be carefully interpreted. A key point here is that a remarkable 33% of those registered and likely to vote say they “don’t know” who they will vote for.

So the biggest question is whether they know and don’t want to say, or are really undecided …

Assets of alleged ponzi scheme kingpins attached

#Jazzx #VotingKickStart youtube.com/watch?v=9vTD74…
Mbhazima Shilowa Kelebogile Chris Vick Chris Snelling. Charles Leonard Molefe Mputamputa_The Jazz Disciple Debs Nomboniso Gasa IG:Nothemba Madumo Mamsie Thami ka Ntuli Brenda Sisane Zakhele Gumede @raymondsuttner John Edwin Mason Mike #LFC, JazzLover

‘People have died on the waiting lists’: South Africa’s housing crisis casts a shadow over election theguardian.com/global-develop…

An Eastern Cape ANC ward councillor, Lunga Dyantyi, has been “ambushed” and shot dead outside his home after going to fetch food for party agents.“The police found his belongings and the food still with him, including his cellphone in his pocket.” dispatchlive.co.za/news/2024-05-2…

Get a snapshot of Africa’s elections in 2024.

Read ISS Today for more > issafrica.org/iss-today/five…

“It’s the paid assassins who are arrested, not those who plan, those who pay,” says Thami Ntuli, chairman of the South African Local Government Association.
By Katharine Houreld wapo.st/4dZTWlt

Gun's in the Shadows - Kenya's struggle with illegal firearms amid a surge in violent crime youtu.be/pbrMjZQlN1c?si…

In 2014, Dumisani Gwala was shot 11 times after he was accused of being a rhino poaching kingpin. He was eventually found not guilty, but a decade later he still lives in fear. #CarteBlanche claire mawisa

Founder of Saving the Wild, Jamie Joseph, says evidence against a man accused of being a rhino poaching kingpin is irrefutable. However, the video evidence we were shown painted a different picture. #CarteBlanche claire mawisa

President Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 signs the National Prosecuting Authority Amendment Bill into law

#FightingCorruption
#LeaveNoOneBehind 🇿🇦

Small businesses stamping out warm tortillas have long been a fixture of Mexican neighborhoods. Now, thousands are being threatened by armed groups, part of a transformation in organized crime that’s rippling through Latin America wapo.st/4bAVctx

Zimbabwe’s lithium liability mg.co.za/article/2024-0…