WATCH: Judge the GNU by impact on SA people, not party politics, urges Ramaphosa
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WATCH: Judge the GNU by impact on SA people, not party politics, urges Ramaphosa

Politics tamfitronics Politics tamfitronics At the ANC’s 100 days of GNU event, President Ramaphosa calls for the focus to be on improving lives, not political affiliations within government.The government of national unity (GNU) should not be judged by the political orientations of its political parties, but by its impact on the lives of poor and working-class South Africans.This is the sentiment President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed as the African National Congress (ANC) reflects on just over 100 days since the 11 political parties of the GNU were sworn into office.The president said this on Monday evening at Chief Albert Luthuli House in the Johannesburg CBD at the ANC’s 100 days of GNU event.ANC 100 days of GNU eventANC members from across the country gathered in the city centre for the event that serves as a...
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Swing-State Politics Is Rotting Our Brains and Harming Democracy
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Swing-State Politics Is Rotting Our Brains and Harming Democracy

Politics tamfitronics Politics Enough about fracking Pennsylvania! Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Getty Images Plus. The Electoral College is far and away the single most ridiculous institution in the democratic world. It was a last-minute compromise produced by exhausted delegates at the Constitutional Convention, and though political forces that...
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2024 election checklist: Five ways Catholic parishes can keep politics out of church
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2024 election checklist: Five ways Catholic parishes can keep politics out of church

Politics tamfitronics (RNS) — Few parishioners want to see their parishes turned into partisan battlefields, but with the Catholic community divided between Republicans (52%) and Democrats (44%), many parishes face this danger. Both campaigns are appealing to Catholic voters because shifting even a small percentage of Catholics in key swing states like Pennsylvania could determine the outcome of the presidential election.A recent poll sponsored by the National Catholic Reporter has former President Donald Trump leading Vice President Kamala Harris among Catholic voters in battleground states by 5 percentage points (50% to 45%).But unlike earlier elections, this year Republicans are not staking their Catholic appeal on abortion, because they see it as a negative issue for them. Instead, they are...
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