The former archbishop is the president and founder of African Monitor - a group of civil society organisations that toured all nine South African provinces to mark the 10th anniversary of the National Poverty Hearings in Cape Town.

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Live radio, it turned out, is a better and cheaper monitor of the honesty of African elections than the local and international observer teams, whose reports will emerge only after the battle has been lost and won.

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The South African president said that the G8 had shown commitment towards Nepad, the development programme for Africa in which rich countries promise more aid and investment in return for efforts by African leaders to raise standards of government and monitor each other's performance.

BBC: Mbeki urges G8 commitment