EFF leader Julius Malema is gunning for a defence in his criminal trial by bringing an application to the Constitutional Court to declare sections of the Riotous Assembly Act unconstitutional. This according to the respondents in the application, the justice and correctional services minister and National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), which[…]
The events of last Thursday evening might well cast a pall over MPs’ work in fleshing out the State of the Nation Address (SONA). The speech President Cyril Ramaphosa eventually got to deliver in his SONA will now be the subject of debate for at least 10 hours – over[…]
Having initially slipped under the radar on Saturday, Julius Malema has encountered a small-scale backlash for a jibe he used towards Pravin Gordhan, taunting the minister about his Indian heritage. Pravin Gordhan vs the EFF Malema’s war with Gordhan has been bubbling over for a while now, but it has[…]
When Zindzi Mandela got behind her keyboard 10 days ago, we doubt she expected to cause a fallout on such a nuclear scale. But her verbose call for movement on land expropriation without compensation has kicked a hornet’s nest, and now, the EFF and former President Thabo Mbeki are at each other’s[…]
Like any crowd-puller, EFF leader Julius Malema knows how to build excitement: keep audiences waiting, then tell them what they want to hear. For two long hours, his supporters had been whipped into a fervour with revolutionary slogans, thumping music, and warm-up speeches at a packed stadium in Alexandra in[…]
Prominent Polokwane lawyer Tumi Mokwena, who has represented EFF leader Julius Malema, has to make available for inspection all trust accounts and books relating to his practice to the Law Society of the Northern Provinces. This is part of an order granted in the Limpopo High Court. The order also[…]
EFF leader Julius Malema’s utterances were “problematic” but did not amount to hate speech, the SA Human Rights Commission said on Wednesday. Chairperson Bongani Majola said at a media briefing that the commission had received five complaints against Malema over the period 2016 to 2018. He said the commission was[…]
Police are investigating a case of intimidation after veteran journalist Karima Brown opened a case against the EFF and its leader, Julius Malema, on Wednesday night. Brown told News24 that she had opened the case at the Rosebank police station late on Wednesday, and police spokesperson Captain Kay Makhubele confirmed[…]
Media Watchdog, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) has called on the South African Human Rights Commission to investigate any instances of hate speech against veteran journalist, Karima Brown, amid a social media onslaught against her. Brown accidentally posted an editorial note on the Economic Freedom Fighters’ Whatsapp group directing colleagues to[…]
EFF leader Julius Malema says the recent load shedding was a deliberate plan by government to justify electricity price hikes and the privatisation of Eskom to benefit a few individuals connected to the governing party. Malema attended a court case in Newcastle in northern KwaZulu-Natal on a charge of contravention[…]
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