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Julius Malema

May 2024

  • John Steenhuisen casts his vote next to his daughter Caroline in Durban

    Which parties could South Africa’s ANC go into coalition with?

  • A woman leans down to place her voting paper in a ballot box

    ‘I just need change’: voters voice discontent as South Africa goes to polls

September 2023

  • Black Africans march with a sign saying Operation Dudula. A man holds a placard saying "Illegally foreirvers [sic] kills our children"

    South African anti-migrant ‘vigilantes’ register as party for next year’s polls

    Operation Dudula changes tactics from evictions and violence, with plans to fight elections on platform of expelling foreigners

September 2020

  • Julius Malema with a group of supporters outside a shuttered Clicks store

    South African far left targets pharmacies in racism row over advert

    Economic Freedom Fighters protesters damage some Clicks stores and force others to close

December 2016

  • World newsmakers ... Sean Penn and El Chapo, Jacob Zuma and Jean-Claude Junker.

    G2 quiz of 2016
    The world news quiz of 2016

    From hapless hijackers to vengeful Eurocrats, how closely have you been paying attention to global affairs in the past 12 months?

August 2016

  • South Africa election

    Guardian Africa network
    Dawn till dusk: South Africa goes to the polls - in pictures

    In hotly contested local elections the ruling African National Congress faces losing key ground to growing opposition parties

February 2016

  • The mood in the national assembly was dour and muted after a bruising few months for the ANC.

    Guardian Africa network
    Zuma's state address: South Africa's president has lost his swagger

    With fierce protests outside and mutterings of discontent from within his party, leader appeared grim and wounded on the podium. Daily Maverick reports

April 2015

  • Afrikaans singer Sunette Bridges chains herself to a vandalised statue of Paul Kruger in Church Square in Pretoria, South Africa.

    Guardian Africa network
    Afrikaner singer chains herself to vandalised South African statue

    As black South Africans rally against symbols of white domination, questions are raised about Afrikaner identity in post-apartheid society, writes Daily Maverick

February 2015

  • Violence during the opening of parliament in South Africa Jacob Zuma

    Guardian Africa network
    Thabo Mbeki slams Jacob Zuma over brawl in South Africa parliament

    Former president says successor should have answered opposition questions about use of taxpayers’ money to upgrade private residence

August 2014

  • Athol Fugard in London in 2010.

    Guardian Africa network
    Athol Fugard: 'Prejudice and racism are still alive and well in South Africa'

    As the country’s greatest ever playwright takes to the stage for the last time, he tells David Smith why he will never lose his optimism for South Africa’s future

May 2014

  • South Africans waiting in a long queue

    South Africa elections: ANC takes clear lead with third of votes counted

    Ruling party led by Jacob Zuma has 59.7% of the vote while its nearest rival, the Democratic Alliance, holds 26.7%
  • A man votes in Soweto. There was an 'extremely high turnout' for the fifth polls since apartheid

    Mandela link and youth apathy likely to help ANC to South African election win

    Despite disenchantment with ruling party, low registration among 'born free' voters and late president set to return ANC to power
  • Two men walk past electoral campaign posters belonging to the African National Congress party and South African Communist Party in Soweto.

    Guardian Africa network
    South African election day: 'the vote will change nothing, and everything'

    There is only one significant wildcard in Wednesday's election - Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters. Though the ANC is expected to win, the EFF has already shaken it, says William Saunderson-Meyer

January 2014

  • Mamphela Ramphele (left) with Helen Zille, leader of the Democratic Alliance

    Mamphela Ramphele takes on Jacob Zuma for South African presidency

    Anti-apartheid activist and partner of Steve Biko to represent Democratic Alliance in most fiercely contested election in 20 years

December 2013

  • William Gumede

    With Nelson Mandela's death the ANC has lost the glue that kept it together

    William Gumede
    William Gumede: After a temporary bounce the ruling party is likely to fragment – and that could be good news for South African democracy

August 2013

  • Religious leaders attend a Marikana memorial service

    ANC absent from Marikana massacre memorial ceremony

    One-year anniversary of miner massacre shines spotlight on feud between ruling party and militant union
  • South Africa: simmering frustration at justice denied a year after Marikana

    A year after police shot 34 miners, seen as a turning point in the country's modern history, the view is that nothing has changed

  • South African politician Malema during an interview with Reuters in Johannesburg

    South African politician Julius Malema likened to Hitler and Mussolini

    Mamphela Ramphele, founder of opposing Agang SA party, criticises leader of Economic Freedom Fighters

July 2013

  • South Africa march

    Guardian Africa network
    After Nelson Mandela, what next for South Africa?

    What would a young Mandela say to South Africans protesting against the the ANC government he once led, asks Sean Jacobs?

January 2013

  • Julius Malema, as ANC youth leader, 2010

    Julius Malema, less ANC firebrand, more placid farmer

    ANC's expelled youth leader, awaiting trial in spring for fraud and racketeering, swaps barricades for cabbages

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