Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has appealed to thousands of party members to face racism toe-to-toe. EFF members attended the party’s rally in Senekal to protect state assets, as they claimed. He was speaking outside the Senekal Magistrate’s Court, where the bail application of two accused in the[…]
Some opposition parties have mixed expectations from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s address during a Joint Sitting of Parliament on Thursday. These include how government will intervene to avoid the collapse of the SABC, Eskom and to address the unemployment crisis. The President has written to National Assembly Speaker – Thandi Modise[…]
The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) is investigating a complaint against EFF MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi after he defended the harassment of a woman journalist by red berets during the recent Clicks protests in Cape Town. In a statement on Friday evening, the commission said it had received a formal complaint[…]
Health and beauty retailer Clicks and Unilever, which owns the TRESemmé hair products brand, are set to meet EFF leader Julius Malema on Thursday, the party said in a statement. Both companies had separately requested meetings with the EFF on Wednesday after the party had written strongly-worded letters to them,[…]
Heated debates around racism continue online following a Clicks advertisement labelled as racist, as EFF protests resulted in store closures nationwide on Wednesday. The South African Human Rights Commission says it will be engaging with Clicks management to understand why the so-called racist Tresemme hair product advertisement was given the[…]
Health and beauty retailer Clicks says it will trade on Monday despite calls by the EFF to shut down its stores over a racist hair advert. Here’s a wrap of the controversy: The advert and the backlash The retailer trended on Twitter on Friday after it labelled black hair “dry”[…]
Political parties have weighed in on the debate about the continued teaching and learning at South African schools amid a rapid rise of COVID-19 infections. The governing African National Congress (ANC) has echoed sentiments of the World Health Organisation (WHO) that schools should only be reopened in the context of[…]
In a rare display of unity, several South African political parties have condemned Israel’s intentions to annex more than 30 percent of Palestinian land, as part of a plan announced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in late January. The parties have collectively called on governments around the globe to take[…]
The EFF has opened a case against Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams for allegedly contravening the lockdown regulations. This after Ndabeni-Abrahams was pictured having a meal at the home of former deputy minister of higher education Mduduzi Manana, which left many South Africans on social media calling for her head. She[…]
The debate on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) descended into a shouting match in the National Assembly after an ANC MP accused EFF leader Julius Malema of domestic violence. As Malema made his way to the podium, following Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu, National Council[…]
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