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New Zealand opposition leader replaced as Ardern popularity soars

The leader of New Zealand's main opposition party was replaced on Friday after opinion polls suggested he was no match for the soaring popularity of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as the country heads towards a general election. Simon Bridges was replaced by Todd Muller in an emergency caucus meeting of his centre-right National Party following a week of disastrous poll results. Just 5 percent of New Zealanders supported Bridges, 43, […]

22 May 2020

International News

Malawi opposition calls for president to resign over graft allegations

Malawi’s main opposition party on Monday called for President Peter Mutharika to resign over allegations he received a kickback from a $4 million government contract. Mutharika has called the allegations “fake news” designed to smear him ahead of an election next year. The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) added its voice to that of civil society groups calling on the president to resign. “We in the opposition have previously and tirelessly […]

2 July 2018

Local

Opposition MPs bay for absent ministers’ blood

When President Cyril Ramaphosa famously said "send me" in his State of the Nation Address, it apparently did not include sending his Cabinet to Parliament. On Thursday afternoon, not a single member of Cabinet was present in the National Assembly for members' statements, one of the ways in which Parliament exercises oversight over the executive. Furthermore, the only deputy minister (deputies are not members of Cabinet) present was Zanele kaMagwaza-Msibi, […]

9 March 2018

Local

Parly presiding officers to meet with opposition

The presiding officers of Parliament will on Tuesday hold a meeting with political parties represented in the National Assembly. Some of the opposition parties are hoping that the meeting will resolve their concerns around who will deliver the State-of-the-Nation-Address (SONA) on Thursday. The Democratic Alliance (DA) and the Economic Freedom Front (EFF) wrote to National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete requesting that President Jacob Zuma not be allowed to deliver the […]

6 February 2018

International News

Kenya election 2017: Odinga supporters warned over claims

Kenya's electoral commission has warned the opposition that its claims of victory for its presidential candidate, Raila Odinga, could be deemed illegal. The opposition has published its own figures, putting Mr Odinga ahead of incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta. This contrasts with provisional electronic results giving Kenyatta a clear lead in Tuesday's poll. Electoral commission chairman Wafula Chebukati told the BBC it was the only body legally allowed to count votes. […]

11 August 2017

Local

Opposition slams Parliament’s oversight

A day before President Jacob Zuma is due in Parliament, opposition parties decried what they call the legislature's failure to hold the president and his executive to account. A groan was audible from the ANC benches when Agang MP Andries Tlouamma stepped up to the National Assembly's podium to deliver his speech in the debate on parliament's budget. "This Parliament is held hostage by the president and the Guptas," he […]

31 May 2017

International News

Protesters fling faeces at soldiers in march

Venezuelan protesters have lobbed bottles and bags of faeces at soldiers who fought back with tear gas to block the latest march in more than a month of nationwide protests against President Nicolas Maduro. The march on the main highway through Caracas on Wednesday came as thousands of opposition supporters again poured onto the streets decrying Venezuela's economic crisis and demanding elections. "These kids live in a dictatorship, they have […]

11 May 2017

Local

If the ANC wants me to resign tomorrow, I will do so: Zuma

President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday said he would resign with an open heart if the ANC wanted him to resign immediately. "There is a few more months left before my task as president ends. In December, a new president will be elected. I don't know who it will be, the ANC will elect. "In 2019, I will take off my hat being the state president. I want to tell you […]

13 April 2017

International News

Syrian opposition demands Assad’s immediate exit from power

In yet another call for President Bashar al-Assad’s departure, the Syrian opposition said on Monday that the prerequisite was a key aspect of political settlement in the war-ravaged country. Following a meeting with UN Secretary General’s Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Ramzi Izz Eddin Ramzi, the chief negotiator for Syria’s opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC), Nasr al-Hariri, said: “Today, we continued to discuss the political period and a constitutional declaration […]

28 March 2017

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