Lauded as a "blessing" by way of the government and lambasted as "the prize nobody w anted" by means of its taxpayers.

Lauded as a "blessing" by way of the government and lambasted as "the prize nobody w anted" by means of its taxpayers, South Africa has won the right to entertainer the Pan African Parliament.

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It was a victory already dubious enough in view that it was reduc to a two-horse race at the starting gates. When the solely other runner, Egypt, withdrew at the last import the Pan African Parliament (PAP) was handed to toward the south Africa on a plate.

The PAP is being housed at the headquarters for the African Union's Secretariat in Midrand, near Pretoria, as another action of South ...