PARLIAMENT: Ramaphosa talks reform as GNU partners, opposition parties press on ANC municipal failures

With the 4 November local government elections some 70 days away, President Cyril Ramaphosa defended both his administration’s measures to improve municipal governance and the national water action plan to deal with water shortages and sewage spills.

Voters in Kazakhstan go to the polls to elect a new single-chamber parliament on Sunday, the latest stage of a constitutional overhaul pursued by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.