Back to homepage / Shows / Eye on Africa Issued on: 29/05/2024 – 22:37 25:48 In tonight’s edition: Vote counting is underway in South Africa as millions of people turn out to this landmark election three decades after the end of apartheid in a poll that could see the ruling ANC party fighting to protect its grip on power. Read more on related topics:
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Ballot counting was under way Thursday after South Africans queued long into the night to vote in a watershed election that could spell the end of the ANC’s 30-year-old unchallenged majority. Issued on: 30/05/2024 – 04:06Modified: 30/05/2024 – 04:26 3 min Counting began in each voting station shortly after polls closed, in some cities long after the planned 9:00 pm (1900 GMT) Wednesday shutdown, with long queues of voters snaking into the night.The final result is not expected to be known before the weekend, but observers will scour turnout figures and partial results to predict whether the ruling African National…
The White House invited more than 450 guests to the state dinner hosted by President Biden for President William Ruto on Thursday night, including business executives, musicians, leaders of the United Nations, community organizers and scholars on sustainable development.Former President Barack Obama also attended the event, although he was not included on a list of those invited provided by the White House. Here is the full list of others invited.THE PRESIDENT AND DR. BIDENHIS EXCELLENCY WILLIAM SAMOEI RUTO, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA, AND HER EXCELLENCY RACHEL RUTOAlice P. Albright, chief executive of Millennium Challenge Corporation, and Gregory B.…
On the stunning Kenyan coast, about halfway between 15th-century ruins and the vibrant city of Mombasa, a small factory is helping to achieve one of Africa’s biggest health care goals: self-reliance.With fewer than 700 employees, Revital Healthcare makes 300 million syringes a year, enough to meet more than half of Africa’s routine immunization needs.In the throes of the coronavirus pandemic, when governments were faced with vaccinating millions of people amid severe shortages, Revital shipped syringes to Sri Lanka, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan — and even sent 15 million syringes to India, said Roneek Vora, the company’s director…
Book Review of The Magic Sea TurtleSponsored* | All opinions are our ownThe Children’s Book Review Written by Kathleen Welton Illustrated by Chau Pham Ages 4-6 | 33 Pages Publisher: Bookfox Press (2024) | ISBN-13: 9781960157515 What to Expect: Animals, new environments, wishes, and growth. Myrtle’s dearest wish is to be queen, but when she embarks on a simple apple-picking adventure one day, she finds herself blown right out of the kingdom she lives in and out to the deep blue sea. Max, the sea turtle, hears her cries for help, and he and his friends come rushing to her…
Photo credit: Luke Jones A treasure trove of toys will be on display for the young and the young at heart at The David Roche Foundation House Museum in North Adelaide. Before smartphones and video games were a phenomenon, children worldwide were captivated by tin toys, wooden trucks and paper planes. Now, visitors are invited to embark on this nostalgic journey of historic play once more at this new exhibition, Australian Toys 1880-1965: The Luke Jones Collection, on show from 1 June to 24 August 2024. The fascinating range of Australian toys made between the 1880s and the 1960s includes…
Papi Mazibuko, a 50-year-old library assistant, decided it was time to switch teams and vote for the Democratic Alliance, the leading opposition party in the national elections in South Africa on Wednesday.Houses on his street in the township of Evaton, south of Johannesburg, had been without power for two and a half years because of a broken transformer. The government, led by the African National Congress, or A.N.C., failed to fix it.The neighboring municipality, run by the Democratic Alliance, had a good record of delivering basic utilities. So Mr. Mazibuko rallied neighbors to a campaign event last year that featured…
Exquisite Retreats in EuropeVisualize yourself relaxing within the walls of a castle in Scotland, which is now a modern spa built on the ancient stones. In this case, traditional therapies are combined with modern treatments to create a one-of-a-kind rejuvenating experience. Further south, in the sun-kissed vineyards of Italy, another place of relaxation invites you. Here, the guests are able to do vinotherapy, which is therapy derived from the local grapes and promotes the skin tone and vitality of the people.Tropical Sanctuaries in AsiaIn Thailand, a spa hotel on the tranquil beaches of Phuket, a combination of Thai traditional healing…
Barry Kemp, an archaeologist whose decades of painstaking digging at the abandoned capital of a mysterious pharaoh helped revolutionize our understanding of how everyday ancient Egyptians lived, worked and worshiped, died on May 15 in Cambridge, Britain, one day after his 84th birthday.The death was announced by the Amarna Project, an archaeology nonprofit where Mr. Kemp was director. It did not specify a cause or exact location.Almost from the moment he arrived to teach at Cambridge University in 1962, fresh out of college, Mr. Kemp was a phenomenon. When he was just 26, he published an article in The Journal…
Tension, excitement and uncertainty consumed South Africa on Wednesday as millions cast their ballots in an election that could end the monopoly on power of the African National Congress, the party that has governed since leading the defeat of apartheid 30 years ago.Volunteers with the party worked feverishly to hold onto their majority, shuttling voters to polling stations, extolling the party’s virtues from loudspeakers on pickup trucks and handing out the party’s bright yellow T-shirts. Top party officials chanted alongside these foot soldiers, as if rallying them for battle.Pollsters have widely predicted that the party will win a plurality but…