Issue Photos

One of the biggest issues in downtown St. Augustine is the reconstruction of the Bridge of Lions. This is a continuing problem for not just tourists, but locals as well.

"Of course the bridge goes up when I need to be somewhere in ten minutes and it takes 20 just for it to go down", said Sam Kunsch

Soccer News

The confederate cup will start on June 14th and will last about two weeks. This is will be the first and final game hosted in Johannesburg. The city doesn't seem completey ready for this event because they haven't been able to advertise like they wanted to due to the election. After the election is over they are hoping to sell more tickets and gather more fans.

South Africa will be in Group A along with New Zealand, Iraq, and Spain.

The USA, Egypt, Brazil and Italy will meet in Group B.

This will be hopefully an exciting summer.

Election Update

It looks like Jacob Zuma is going to be elected President. They are projecting him to win by a two/thirds vote. Not everyone is happy by this potential outcome

"I don't believe the Zuma charges should have been dropped. He should've been tried for what he did," said one local.

According to another source, the reason why the ANC has such a majority of black votes is because they threaten the people if they don't vote ANC.

The day to vote is April 22nd, which is coming up in about a week.

Crime in South Africa

Crime in South Africa has been increasingly a problem. Within a year (spring of 2006 to spring of 2007) there were almost 20,000 murders reported. South Africa is rated the 6th highest country for crime just falling behind Columbia.

Lucky Dube has been on everyone's mind this week after the men who killed him were found guilty on Tuesday. Dube, who was a famous Reggae artist, had been killed during a carjacking in the fall of 2007. Dube is survived by his wife and seven children. His music tried to inspire horrible effects of crime and what others could do to prevent it.

So I post this video to honor the talented artist.

Video about the president

Video: Zuma's campaign

Election 2009

(Mbeki left, Zuma right)


When the next president is elected by the National Assembly, it will be a five year term served. The election is between current President Thabo Mbeki and ex-Vice-President Jacob Zuma. The African National Congress president Zuma is probably going to be re-elected. He has had some legal troubles with fraud that was supposed to go to trial, but because of the elections they have moved the trial to August.

If President Mbeki is elected it will be for his third term and therefore won't be allowed to be the actual president. He will be able to appoint someone else, which won't be ex-VP Zuma.

The elections will be held April 22nd. This is the first time in over a decade that the election is free.