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3 crucial issues in the upcoming South African elections

The South African national elections take place on May 7 2014. What are they about? As the elections come closer, tensions intensify, rivalries become harsher, and scandals make headlines. Three concerns that run through everyday political rivalries:

Erik Bähre • 23-04-2014

Diversity

Nelson Mandela and the politics of mourning

Nelson Mandela has died at the respectable age of 95. But his political life is far from over: he will become a powerful ancestor.

Erik Bähre • 09-12-2013

Diversity · Digitalisation

My days as a cyborg: how I (temporarily) became the Kenyan elections

Between March 4 and 9 I lived in a vacuum. My sole companions were my laptop and my smartphone; together we merged into one grand news-consuming machine. Kenya was at the centre of my universe, the Kenyan elections my sole concern.

Marlous van den Akker • 14-04-2013

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3 crucial issues in the upcoming South African elections

Nelson Mandela and the politics of mourning

My days as a cyborg: how I (temporarily) became the Kenyan elections