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Monitoring group urges parties not to stir up election violence.

Business Day (South Africa)

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Byline: WYNDHAM HARTLEY

Monitoring group urges parties not to stir up election violence Parliamentary Editor MORE than 40 incidents of election-related conflict including five murders, threatened boycotts, illegal land grabs and the creation of no-go areas which threaten to derail the April 22 election have been identified by the Election Monitoring Network (EMN) with just three weeks to go before the poll.

The latest report from the EMN a network of civil society organisations including the Institute for Democracy in SA, the South African Council of Churches, the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, the Quaker Peace Centre and the Black Sash compiled by 500 monitors countrywide, was released yesterday by the archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba.

The EMN has …

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