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South Africa has a vibrant multiparty political system, with 13 parties represented in the National Assembly of Parliament.South Africa’s  parliament in Cape Town. (Image: Wikipedia)Brand South Africa reporterThe African National Congress is the majority party, with 264 of the 400 National Assembly seats. The party also controls eight of the country’s nine provinces, with the exception of the Western Cape, where the Democratic Alliance won the majority in the 2009 elections. The ANC also controls five of the six metropolitan municipalities. Nonetheless, South Africa’s opposition parties remain robust and vocal.South Africa’s Parliament is made up of two houses: the National…

Four men and women have been shortlisted for the 2007 South African Social Entrepreneurship Awards for their solutions to combat the social and economic challenges facing South Africa today. Helen Lieberman (pictured) and her colleague Sipho Pwani of Ikanva Labantu are one of four South Africans shortlisted for the 2007 South African Social Entrepreneurship Awards. (Image: Antoine Gazeau via Roger E. Joseph Award) brand south africa reporterFour innovative South Africans have been shortlisted for the 2007 South African Social Entrepreneurship Awards in recognition of the positive impact their work in the fields of social change and sustainability is having. .…

I have just become friends with an incredible 21-year-old rhino. While we were in a densely forested valley in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, Africa's most famous black rhino, named Sibula, shared a very closely guarded secret with me.Sibra was born in the Namibian wilderness in 1984, but was captured five years later and sent to the Lisbon Zoo. She was rescued in 1990 and taken to Augrabies Falls National Park in South Africa, where she subsequently mated with a wild male and gave birth to her first calf at the ripe old age of 10, a major milestone…