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Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected as Mexico’s first woman president in an historic landslide win. Mexico’s official electoral authority said preliminary results showed the 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City winning between 58% and 60% of the vote in Sunday’s election. That gives her a lead of more than 30 percentage points over her main […]
A truck collided with a car and crashed into a house in the Narraville area of Walvis Bay on Sunday. The truck was driven by a 39-year-old Zambian man. According to Erongo police spokesperson chief inspector Ileni Shapumba, the lorry first collided head-on with a double-cab bakkie that was driven by a 54-year-old woman. It […]
South Africa’s ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula says the party will not negotiate with any political party that demands the removal of president Cyril Ramaphosa as part of their coalition negotiations. Mbalula says parties with such conditions could “forget about it”. “Cyril is a no-go area. You come to us with that demand, forget it. […]
South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa has painted a vivid picture of the political ordeal his African National Congress (ANC) faces, by using dark humour as he reflected on the election results speech delivered by Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) chairperson Mosotho Moepya. In his address on Sunday evening, Moepya erroneously referred to the just-ended poll as […]
The apparent threat by MK leader, former president Jacob Zuma, against the Electoral Commission is inherently about violence. However, he is also daring all the other role players, and most of the country, insisting they bend to his will. This may turn out to be over-reach, and make any kind of working relationship with the […]
Donald Trump has ratcheted up his unfounded claims that his New York hush-money trial was a political hit job, a day after becoming the first former president in United States history to be convicted of criminal charges. Speaking at Trump Tower in New York City on Friday morning, Trump delivered a meandering speech in which […]
32 children raped, sexually violated by pastors in four years Just when she thought she finally found a place of safety that would cater to her education and a daily dose of the gospel, the 10-year-old from Opuwo got a rude awakening. She found herself washing dishes with her pastor (50) kissing her, taking off […]
The Ministry of Mines and Energy announced unchanged fuel prices on Friday. Prices at Walvis Bay are N$23 per litre for petrol, N$22,17 per litre for diesel 50ppm, and N$22,37 per litre for diesel 10ppm. Fuel prices in other regions will be adjusted accordingly, with the National Energy Fund absorbing the remaining under-recoveries to alleviate […]
The Independent Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) is under attack from the surging MK party. In a late-night visit to the IEC results centre on June 1, the party’s leader, former president Jacob Zuma, warned at a press conference: ‘Nobody must declare tomorrow. People will be provoking us.’ He added: ‘Don’t rush us. Nobody is […]
Here are the results: The official results are out and according to the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), the African National Congress (ANC) has obtained only around 6,444,202 votes. The ICE said that it has conducted 99.9% of the vote. This means that the ANC has only got 40.19% of the total vote. In […]