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Jacob Zuma No-Confidence Challenge

08/08/2017 GMT

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South Africa's President is facing an opposition sponsored parliamentary vote.

South Africa's President faces an opposition sponsored parliamentary vote in response to the sacking of his finance minister last year. 
Also Kenyans vote in presidential, parliamentary and local elections; and, Haruo Nakajima, the man who wore the Godzilla suit, has died.

(Photo: Opposition placard of president Jacob Zuma.   Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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