Expatriate voters acknowledged
The government has acknowledged the important role that South African voters abroad played in the country's 2009 general election, saying it boded well for building a global South African "brain-bank" to help bring investment and skills back into the country.
In London, voting for South Africa
South Africans gathered in their thousands in Trafalgar Square, London on Wednesday to vote for their country's future. John Battersby joins them, and is reminded of the crowd that gathered in the same place 25 years ago, to help consign apartheid to the past.
In London, voting for identity
At 4am, London is dark and raining. While my taxi snakes me through the deserted streets, a trainee Jesuit priest is camped outside South Africa House ... Timothy Schultz joins the queue to vote in South Africa's general election, and asks himself why he's doing it.
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