“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...

"GAZA NOT FOR YOU", CHINA BLASTS TRUMP. (PHOTO).


 "Gaza not for you", China blasts Trump


China has said US President Donald Trump is overreaching himself for nursing the plans for his country to take over Gaza.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun, at a news conference emphasized the fact Gaza is not a part of the United States of America.

He said Gaza is for the Palestinians and cannot  be used as a bargaining chip.

The Chinese spokesman reminded Trump that Gaza belongs to the Palestinian people and not a political bargaining chip.

“Gaza belongs to the Palestinian people. It is an inalienable part of the territory of Palestine, not a bargaining chip for political games,” he said.

Speaking further, he said, “The international community, major countries in particular, should join hands to make Gaza better, rather than worse, by providing humanitarian assistance and helping with its reconstruction”.

He said China was committed to supporting Palestinians to govern Palestine.

He said China “stands ready to work with the rest of the world for the realization of the two-State solution as the fundamental way forward, and for an early, just political settlement of the Palestinian question, namely, the establishment of an independent State of Palestine that enjoys full sovereignty based on the 1967 border and with east Jerusalem as its capital”.

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