The media and the ANC might not always agree, but there is consensus on the question of erasing criminal defamation from the country’s common law. “We were very pleased in April when we discovered that the ANC actually expressed a view that criminal defamation doesn’t belong in the criminal sphere[…]
African National Congress international relations subcommittee chairperson Obed Bapela and other party leaders will be meeting with the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) next week to discuss concerns. The discussions will focus on Bapela’s comments regarding dual citizenship and other matters relating to the Jewish community. “Obviously the[…]
The Economist magazine said the ANC is turning its back on human rights and freedom by siding with some of the world’s ”nastier” regimes. In an article headed “Clueless and Immoral” on the majority party’s documents for its National General Council, it referred to opinions in the discussion document which[…]
The ANC and the City of Cape Town continue to battle over the city’s adoption of a new logo, a move the ANC has described as ‘arrogant’. The party’s application to have the city’s adoption of a new logo declared null and void, was heard in the Western Cape High[…]
The ANC wants South Africa to end its membership of the International Criminal Court because of what it calls the institution’s arrogance. “The manner that we were treated around the [President Omar] al-Bashir incident is consistent with the cheeky arrogance that Africa has experienced in its interaction with the ICC,”[…]
Men in the ANC had the “audacity” to instruct women who to elect as leaders, ANC Women’s League (ANCWL) president Angie Motshekga said on Thursday. She was delivering her political report to the conference in Pretoria. “It cannot be [that in] the ANC… as women are currently subjected to… male[…]
Members of Parliament’s ad hoc committee on Nkandla are struggling to agree on which findings to include in their draft report. After two and a half hours of back and forth between ruling party and opposition members on Wednesday afternoon, the committee was not much closer to finding a resolution ahead[…]
The attacks levelled at Public Protector Thuli Madonsela by the African National Congress are “despicable”, the Congress of the People said on Wednesday. “The time has arrived for all of us to stand boldly with our Public Protector. She is doing a stupendous job, as an independent constitutional agent, fighting[…]
A site visit at the GF Jooste Hospital ended even before it began after members of the ANC Western Cape leadership met with concerned Manenberg residents outside the hospital on Thursday. Provincial ANC chairperson, Marius Fransman, provincial secretary Faiez Jacobs and members of the Manenberg Steering Committee for the city’s[…]
Hamas spokesperson, Usamah Hamdan, spoke to Suraya Dadoo about the ‘blood libel’ and the inspiration Hamas draws from South Africa. This article was originally published on News24 Voices It’s impossible to mention Usamah Hamdan’s name without ‘blood libel’ popping up. The Hamas spokesperson has been accused of saying that killing[…]
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