Never has the future of South Africa’s politics been more uncertain, but the one certainty is that the ANC’s standing as a liberation movement is dead.
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With the conduct of the 24 March elections, Senegal’s President Macky Sall appears to have saved his legacy.
Ghana’s anti-gay bill will affect heterosexual’s too
The ANC leans heavily on its liberation movement brand. But this will not necessarily be a determining factor in who will sway voters later this year.
Convicted terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika yesterday won the right to remain an Australian citizen. So will he go free? And what does this mean for national security?
Does Louisiana’s requirement for public schools to post ‘In God We Trust’ in all classrooms violate the doctrine of separation of church and state? A legal scholar weighs in.
The overwhelming majority of Muslims in Mozambique reject the violence of the insurgents and their quest for a caliphate.
The idea of giving aspects of nature legal rights is gaining traction – but the results are mixed.
The case hinged on Montana’s ‘green amendment,’ which guarantees a constitutional right to ‘a clean and healthful environment.’ Other states have similar amendments, and more are considering them.
Ghana is a signatory to several international conventions that oblige it to guarantee the right to life.
Jomo Kenyatta and his successor Daniel arap Moi set the tone for ethnic and authoritarian politics which Kenya has wrestled to free itself from in recent decades.
A designer opposed to same-sex marriage argued that a Colorado anti-discrimination law would effectively force her to speak against her beliefs.
The Constitution says that a trial must be held where an alleged crime happened – while Trump’s indictment mentions Washington, D.C. and Florida, there are a few reasons why Florida was the pick.
In the year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, giving decisions about the legality of abortion back to states, voters and state legislatures have made their preferences on abortion clear.
The arrest of a former American president is unprecedented, but the nation’s founders anticipated the day would come.
In a simply worded question, Australians will be asked to approve altering the Constitution “to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice”.
Here’s what the question says, what’s new and what happens next.
Neil Agget’s passionate trade unionism proved fateful. It made him a target of a brutally repressive apartheid police state.
South Africa’s courts are likely to set a high bar in cases brought against the government’s most recent state of disaster declaration.
Tanzania’s six-year ban on political rallies shows how the president’s power can override the constitution.
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