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The surveys found that voter turnout will play a significant role in this election, with a higher turnout favouring the ANC and a lower turnout favouring the DA.
\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
By MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Children's Defense Fund The Peacemaker taught us about the Seven Generations. He said, when you sit in council for the welfare of the people, you must not think of [...]
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by Najee El-Amin - In 2016, Mississippi’s voter turnout rate took a nosedive as 70,000 eligible citizens did not show up to cast a ballot. Activists have been trying to figure out why this happened and how to get African Americans, a powerful voting bloc, energized and back to the polls. Their efforts are coming […]
[Daily Maverick] It came down to votes at Parliament's ad hoc committee on amending Section 25 of the Constitution. ANC numbers meant its proposals carried the day. But the EFF rejected this. And pending another twist, that effectively means the constitutional amendment is dead in the water.
Georgia House Speaker David Ralston called a press conference Wednesday afternoon in which he announced a proposal to make free voter ID cards available to all Georgians. 'I am committed to eliminating barriers to voting for all legally eligible Georgians,' House Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge, told reporters during a news conference Wednesday afternoon outside the House Chamber. Georgia already […]
“With his Club Quarantine parties, Derrick has created a space where folks can come together from living rooms and basements all over the world to let off some steam, dance it out and just enjoy each other’s company,” Obama, who referred to Jones as her friend, said.
“Partying with a purpose…his turntables have provided a soundtrack for so many of our volunteers, helping us reach more than 400,000 eligible voters throughout our recent couch parties,\" she added.
In late March, Club Quarantine partnered with Obama's organization When We All Vote to encourage those tuning in to register to vote, as Blavity previously reported.
Eighteen people have been injured in an altercation and shooting at an ANC meeting in Limpopo over the weekend.
By Chinta Strausberg In an effort to make it easier to vote, Representative La Shawn Ford (D-8th) on Tuesday, June 29, said he is introducing a bill that will call for all voter registration cards to include a photo ID. “I am filing a bill to make the voter’s registration card official with a photo […]
The DA has begun removing its controversial posters in KwaZulu-Natal.
TAXPAYERS COULD see a huge windfall of nearly $750 million if Jamaica holds both the local government and general elections together.
The local government vote is due in November this year, while the general election is due next February.
However, with the constitutional allowance of three months post due date in special circumstances, local government elections can be held no later than next February.
Ruling parties have often used local government polls as a test of the political temperature before lining up their ducks for the general election.
There is currently no fixed date for voting in Jamaica, but general elections are constitutionally due every five years, and local government polls every three years.
The plot is thickening this week: Jessie Duarte suspects her own ANC comrades are responsible for organising the mass gatherings at Nkandla.
Virginia, long seen as a critical state in American politics, has also been a barometer of the nation’s racial climate and is being closely watched to see what direction it takes in the way of social justice.
If she becomes governor, McClelland would be the second Black governor of VIrginia, following Doug Wilder, and the first Black woman ever voted into the job making history in the state as well as in the nation.
She spoke with BET.com about her plans to address social justice and equality, and also focus on answering the racial issues that have come out of the state over the past few years like the deadly protest incident in Charlottesville in 2017 and Black Virginia voters’ influence on electoral politics.
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BET.com: You wouldn’t be the first Black governor of Virginia, but you would be the first Black woman governor and the first Black woman to hold the position in the country.
McClelland: There's so many aspects of public safety, but the bottom line is just making sure we have healthy thriving communities and a lot of the civil unrest, whether it was then or now, is due to an inability to come to terms with the racial inequity and 400 years of trauma and the inability to address that and heal.
Former President Barack Obama released a statement on Monday, June 1 encouraging protesters of the George Floyd murder to further their activism once they leave the streets.
Released via online publishing platform Medium, Obama touched on the ways that activists can create real change in their communities when the protesting ends.
“… the elected officials who matter most in reforming police departments and the criminal justice system work at the state and local levels,” he explained.
Obama went on to say that activists need to get specific about their demands for criminal justice and police reform, as well as find the best ways to educate their community members about what needs to be done.
Obama ended his public posting on Monday by sharing a video of George Floyd’s brother, Terrence Floyd, encouraging protesters to be nonviolent and vote.
