Today’s main stories: South African elections could prove a testing time for the ruling ANC party, and its leader — President Jacob Zuma — in particular, as they are expected to return their worst result since the apartheid. We talk to Political Analyst Daniel Silke.
We speak to geopolitical analyst Tony Rinna about the appointment of Tomomi Inada as the new Japanese Defence Minister, a conservative revisionist, who wants to see Japan's military presence reinstated.
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