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  The African National Congress in South Africa: Reflecting on a Hollow Liberation The African National Congress held celebrations for its 113th anniversary on January 11.  Its origins are as a struggle movement against the apartheid regime in South Africa, and as a partner to workers and allied with the country’s communist party. Its contemporary status is as the ruling party of the country for the past 30 years, having recently lost its majority share of the vote in recently held general elections . The ANC has been accused of “ selling out ” on its promise to foster the creation of an equitable South Africa for all by the South African Communist Party (SACP) with which it is formally allied. Perhaps its recent loss of political dominance is a condemnation of this failure to deliver on its mandate. It has now entered into a coalition government with other parties including longtime official opposition party, the Democratic Alliance. During the struggle in the 1980s as a libe...

  Mozambique Forms Its Government, but Question of Geopolitical Risks Still Remains Unanswered by Ocean Postman T his past year was a major election year during which the democratic system was tested in many countries around the world . Mozambique’s general elections, held on October 9, were found to have been irregular, but the result was still accepted by the Mozambique Constitutional Council, which declared the results legitimate. This is despite recent anti-government protests by Mozambicans. The ruling party, the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) thus remains in power, as they have for the past 50 years. In a country marked by a recent history of civil war, the threat of political violence was realized in these most recent elections which produced deadly protests. The fairness of the elections remains in dispute, whilst the previously held 2019 general election set a precedent as the least fair elections since 1994 .  Mozambique remains a resource rich ec...