This year he was able to take his loyal supporters with him to MK, which is named after the ANC’s former armed wing and holds huge political symbolism because of its role in fighting for the end of white-minority rule.

Many politicians can rely on a loyal core of backers, but Mr Zuma’s ability to genuinely connect with the poor and marginalised is what sets him apart. Cyril Ramaphosa replaced him as president and Mr Zuma became a political pariah and a damaged brand.

Elected, accused of corruption - fired, accused of rape - acquitted, elected president, accused of corruption again - denied again, ousted, imprisoned for contempt of court - freed, barred from becoming an MP.

For most politicians almost any of these punches would have proved fatal to their career, but not for South Africa’s Jacob Zuma

The party, which used to secure more than 60% in all elections since 1994, except in 2019, when its share dipped to 57.5%, got only 40.18% of the vote. This has put it in a difficult position to form a government on its own.

the NEC agreed that for the country to successfully overcome the challenges it faces, there is a need for a unity government and collaboration among political parties.

Unity government is S Africa's best option - Ramaphosa

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clddkkyk3x2o

the populist uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) led by former President Jacob Zuma, with 58;

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ex-leader-zumas-populist-party-becomes-top-disrupter-south-africa-vote-2024-05-31/

and the hard-left Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) with 39.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africas-divisive-malema-could-be-post-election-kingmaker-2024-05-27/

But it was punished for its chequered record in last week's vote.

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced late Thursday.

“We have agreed to invite political parties to form a government of national unity, the best option to move our country forward,’’

ANC's nearest rivals are the pro-business, white-led Democratic Alliance (DA), with 87 seats;

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africas-potential-kingmakers-struggle-with-white-image-2024-06-02/

Meanwhile: south Africa

South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) will invite other political parties to form a government of national unity, its leader President Cyril Ramaphosa has said.

After last week's election in which the ANC lost its majority for the first time since the end of the racist system of apartheid 30 years ago - former liberation movement once led by Nelson Mandela has run South Africa since it swept to power in a 1994 election that marked the end of white minority rule

@killingfloorman 😂 true - its the sheer amount of marches that get allowed that is the issue

Republican marches get refused while each year orange order marches get more allowed

Personally they can march till their wee orange balls drop on the 12th there is no need for marches starting 1st June right up till 12th July that's taking the piss

“Damn,” Forshaw added on Mastodon. “I really thought the Recall database security would at least be, you know, secure.”

https://infosec.exchange/@tiraniddo/112566044174482506

More here:

https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-windows-recall-privilege-escalation/

Microsoft’s Recall Feature Is Even More Hackable Than You Thought

#CoSoSec #Microsoft

James Forshaw, a researcher with Google's Project Zero vulnerability research team, published an update to a blog post pointing out that he had found methods for accessing Recall data without administrator privileges

https://www.tiraniddo.dev/2024/06/working-your-way-around-acl.html

Happy birthday @Render

Glasgow is braced for 100 Orange walks and loyalist parades in a matter of weeks this summer

July 6, the city will see 15,000 people take part in the largest march

Fuck yer 12th of July

A report presented to members of the well-being committee highlighted that during that time there were 135 Orange Order marches, while 24 were organised by Apprentice Boys of Derry and 10 by the Black Institute, while there were seven Republican Marches, two trade union marches, eight bands, 11 funerals and 67 “other” processions took place across the city.

just seems that the number of orange order marches is disproportionately excessive. Why are so many permitted?

Meanwhile:

number of Orange Order marches held in Glasgow over the last year have been raised at a city council committee meeting.

Between April 1, 2023, and March 31, 2024, there were a total of 264 public processions held in Glasgow compared to 233 between April 1, 2022 and March 31, 2023.

@process I dough my nut 😍

New device day sweats have started

😂😂

The unboxing fetish dreams will he "hard" tonight 😆

And yeah its a pixel device my first "google" device since the nexus days

@XOshiloh always

Although CF has a history of forcing people/companies to move to bigger plans

not the only ones that got their business threatened by CF’s aggressive sales tactics

2022 just one example (hacker news is always had posts appearing with similar stories)

/nosanitize

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31336515

@MLClark yeah the information gathering is tough especially with big populations...wise to take your time

One thing I've found interesting is so many countries have changed laws in build up to elections this time.

Mostly all were done within a year or so. Which can be used by current parties in governments.

Meanwhile: #Cloudflare "ransom" 🤷‍♂️ 🤔

We've been on the Cloudflare Business plan ($250/month) for years. They suddenly contacted us and asked us to either pay them $120k up front for one year of Enterprise within 24 hours or they would take down all of our domains.

https://open.substack.com/pub/robindev/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website

@stueytheround 🤗