“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...

NO DEAL REACHED AT TRUMP-PUTIN ALASKA MEETING. (PHOTO).


 NO DEAL REACHED AT TRUMP-PUTIN ALASKA MEETING


Following the much anticipated meeting between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, the American leader disclosed that no deal was reached between the two leaders over the war in Ukraine.


Trump and Putin shook hands warmly at the airport in Anchorage after their planes landed before they entered into Trump's special Limousine to the meeting venue. 


At a point on the tarmac, Putin looked up cautiously to survey the American stealth fighters circling overhead at a formation.


Speaking to journalists after the meeting, Trump said there was some progress made, but "there's no deal until there's a deal...we didn't get there!" 


Trump later said he would not mind meeting with Putin again over the issue in Ukraine, to which Putin said that that would have to be in Moscow.

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