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17 hours ago · ANC’s decline. Three decades ago, the ANC under Nelson Mandela, won South Africa’s first ‘all-race’ election, ushering in a new era for the deeply divided nation. The once-banned party which spearheaded the struggle to end apartheid, won a whopping 62.65% of the national vote in 1994. Since then, the ANC has enjoyed a stranglehold over ...
19 hours ago · The bateleur ( / ˌbætəˈlɜːr, ˈbætəlɜːr /; [2] Terathopius ecaudatus ), also known as the bateleur eagle, is a medium-sized eagle in the family Accipitridae. It is often considered a relative of the snake eagles and, like them, it is classified within the subfamily Circaetinae. [3] It is the only member of the genus Terathopius and ...
19 hours ago · Meaning Etymology The English word "news" developed in the 14th century as a special use of the plural form of "new". In Middle English, the equivalent word was newes, like the French nouvelles and the German Neues. Similar developments are found in the Slavic languages – namely cognates from Serbo-Croatian novost (from nov, "new"), Czech and Slovak noviny (from nový, "new"), the Polish nowiny, the Bulgarian novini and Russian novosti – and likewise in the Celtic languages: the Welsh ...
