“NO ELECTRICITY, NO VOTE,” SOUTH AFRICANS THREATEN TO SHUN RULING PARTY ANC. (PHOTO)

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 “No electricity, no vote,” South Africans threaten to shun ruling party ANC Residents in Katlehong, a township outside Johannesburg, have resolved to boycott South Africa's upcoming local elections on November 4 due to long-standing failures by authorities to provide basic services like electricity. For over 20 years, around 180 households in the community have relied on illegal electrical connections pulled from neighboring areas to power their homes. Angry over the lack of formal grid infrastructure, residents are directing their frustration at the ruling African National Congress (ANC). "We have made a collective decision: no electricity, no vote," said community leader Lesiba Rankapole, 59. "We know it is illegal, but we had no choice because we cannot live without electricity. Our children cannot progress without electricity." "I was born ANC, but today I do not want anyone to tell me about the ANC because I am suffering," added 57-year-old resid...

AT LEAST 18 PEOPLE,WERE CONFIRMED DEAD TODAY AFTER YESTERDAY DEADLY LANDSLIDES IN BURUNDI.

                                  According to CCTV News,the network who quoted what the Governor of Burudi said Jacqus Minani said today monday that ''Lansslides in Burundi have killed at least 18 people with 10 more missing after torrential rains.It is a disaster,dozens of houses were destroyed,crops have been washed away.Rescue teams are searching the area to try to find the missing people after land slides overnight yesterday sunday.Twelve people died sheltering inside a church in the village of Rutunga,while others were killed inside their homes or simply swept away by rivers of mud.Mud and rocks loosened by heavy rains,were swept down steep hillsides of the rural region of the small central African nation,destroying houses in its path''.Rest in peace to the dead,may God console their families,Amen.

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