A local attorney has pinned the recent wave of racism scandals on a lack of understanding as to how freedom of speech is governed as per the South African Constitution. Local media has been awash with reports of incidents where citizens, including these within positions of prominence, have made questionable[…]
Government employee Velaphi Khumalo has been suspended with full pay from the Gauteng Sports, Arts, Culture and Recreation Department. In a Facebook post, Khumalo called for black South Africans to do to white people what “Hitler did to the Jews” and cleanse the country of white people. The Sports Promotion[…]
Velaphi Khumalo, the man who called for black South Africans to do to white people what “Hitler did to the Jews”, has apologised. In an email addressed to South Africans, the ANC and the Gauteng government, and sent to News24, a man identifying himself as Khumalo, said it was not[…]
Controversial radio personality and former Idols SA judge Gareth Cliff on Thursday said he was disappointed that people were calling for a boycott against him following some backlash he’s received on Twitter for adding his views on the Penny Sparrow racist post debate. “I am very disappointed how this agenda[…]
The ANC Youth League said on Thursday that it would call for a national boycott of Standard Bank if the company did not fire economist Chris Hart. “Within its corporate corridors racism and apartheid is still alive,” ANCYL Gauteng chairperson Matome Chiloane said during a march to the bank’s headquarters[…]
The South African Human Rights Commission has pledged to investigate all racism-related complaints, regardless of the perpetrator’s race. This after a number of people on Facebook and Twitter on Monday and Tuesday vowed to take action against “all white people”, after KwaZulu-Natal estate agent Penny Sparrow compared black people to[…]
A social media storm is brewing after a KwaZulu-Natal south coast estate agent called New Year’s Day beachgoers “monkeys”. Penny Sparrow had made the inflammatory post on Facebook, which prompted a mass reaction on social networking sites. In her post she wrote: “These monkeys that are allowed to be released[…]
Three DA members have renounced their membership and pledged allegiance to the ANC in the Western Cape, amid claims of racial prejudice from within the party. Former DA Councillor Cyril Mack, his son Grant and Danny Bolton, all residents of Atlantis, claim the party’s racist undertones have become unbearable in[…]
The Palestinian population are suffering an institutionalised form of racism far more extensive and deeply-rooted than has been seen elsewhere in history. This is according to Arab-American human rights activist, Dr. Rania Masri, who delivered an address on “White Supremacy and Zionism” at the AIDC Solidarity Centre on Saturday. The[…]
An open invitation has been extended to the Open Stellenbosch movement to engage in discussions on transformation at the Stellenbosch University, the institution’s management said on Tuesday. This followed a meeting between management and Parliament’s portfolio committee on higher education earlier in the day. “We are listening, we are talking,”[…]
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