Election: ANC can learn from President Buhari

Buhari

Nigerian politics is notoriously corrupt and frequently chaotic, but there are lessons to be learnt from Africa’s most populous country, especially since it has hard-earned experience in both the democratic governance and dictatorship departments since achieving independence from Britain, 55 years ago this month.
While there are certainly aspects of Nigeria’s governance history that SA would not want to emulate, since his election earlier this year President Muhammadu Buhari has sought to correct flaws in the system and introduce practices designed to promote effective governance rather than merely entrench power, a frequent criticism of his predecessors.

This includes the cabinet appointment process, for which he has taken considerable flack both at home and abroad because it has taken so long — his administration took effective control from the beginning of June, yet his cabinet was finalised only in the past few weeks.

Danish election: Opposition bloc wins

The centre-right group led by ex-PM Lars Lokke Rasmussen beat Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt's centre-left coalition, although her party is the largest.

Ms Thorning-Schmidt has now stood down as Social Democratic Party leader.

The right-wing, anti-immigration Danish People's Party will become the second-largest in parliament.