“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...

NORTH KOREAN DEFECTOR KIM KYU-LI IS DESPERATE TO FIND HER YOUNGER SISTER. (PHOTOS).



 North Korean defector Kim Kyu-li is desperate to find out what's happened to her younger sister Cheol-ok. 



The siblings separately managed to escape the country in the late 1990s at the height of the catastrophic famine, but shortly after 14-year-old Cheol-ok arrived in China, her older sister tells us she was forced marry a much older Chinese man via a broker.


Kyu-il, now lives in London, and has hardly had any contact with her sister since but earlier this year she learnt that she'd been detained by the Chinese authorities and deported back to North Korea. 


She's been telling her story to Newsday.

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