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Constitutional Court to decide fate of municipal elections
The stage is set and the stakes are high ahead of Friday’s Constitutional Court hearing on whether the elections should…
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Disagreement over bid to postpone municipal elections
The DA, Afriforum and the One SA Movement are opposing the Independent Electoral Commission’s (IEC) application to postpone municipal elections.…
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Municipal elections: AfriForum wants more clarity on Moseneke report regarding postponement of polls
Civil rights group AfriForum is investigating the merits of an application by the electoral commission to postpone the 2021 municipal…
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Government continues Tourism Equity Fund despite legal action
The government and agencies supporting SMME growth in the tourism sector, which has been decimated by COVID-19 and the lockdown,…
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Zondo Commission refuses Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s leave to cross-examine application
The Zondo Commission heard a number of applications for leave to cross-examine on Tuesday, brought by various implicated parties. The…
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AfriForum challenges black economic empowerment policy on Covid-19 vaccines
While Covid-19 infections continue to climb, civil rights organization AfriForum has filed an urgent application against Minister of Finance Tito…
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Farm murders on the rise again, says AfriForum
Civil rights organization AfriForum says farm murders are on the rise again. Releasing its latest statistics on farm attacks this…
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SA recorded 395 farm attacks since April 2020, says AfriForum
AfriForum said there were 395 farm attacks reported countrywide since April last year. The civil rights organization released its latest…
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I’ll abide by court order halting Tourism Equity Fund, says Minister Kubayi-Ngubane
Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane on Tuesday said she would abide by a court order stopping payments from the Tourism Equity…
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Minister Sisulu stands by her hiring of 24 Cuban engineers who arrive today
Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has defended her decision to hire 24 Cuban engineers who will help “enhance government’s…
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AfriForum launches Centre for Local Government
Civil rights organisation AfriForum on Monday launched its Centre for Local Government. AfriForum said the centre would investigate local self-governing…
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White River police station assault couple ask AfriForum for help
A couple who were allegedly assaulted inside a police station in White River have reached out to civil rights organization…
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Cosatu backs constitutional change for land expropriation without compensation
Parliament has continued public hearings into land expropriation without compensation. There have been submissions from organizations opposed to the move…
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AfriForum wants President Cyril Ramaphosa cross-examined #StateCaptureInquiry
AFriforum has applied to the State Capture Commission to subpoena President Cyril Ramaphosa to appear. It wants Ramaphosa to be…
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AfriForum applies to cross-examine President Ramaphosa at Zondo commission
Civil rights organization AfriForum has submitted a formal application to the Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture to…
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Senzo Meyiwa murder mastermind still out there, says Gerrie Nel
The five suspects linked to the murder of Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa will start their trial…
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AfriForum: Farm attacks significantly down while murders rise in 2020
Farm attacks decreased in the 2020 calendar year to 382 as compared to 511 in the previous year, while murders…
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AfriForum heads to court over government’s Covid-19 vaccine roll-out plan
Afriforum and Solidarity will head to court on March 2 over the government’s implementation plan for Covid-19 vaccines. The case…
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AfriForum and Solidarity take Dlamini-Zuma to court after she calls their bluff
Lobby group AfriForum and trade union Solidarity on Thursday said they were proceeding with the preparation of court papers against…
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AfriForum calls for justice after PE farmworkers allegedly assaulted by farmer
AfriForum on Monday said the law must take its cause after a farmworker was seen on cell phone video assaulting…
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AfriForum loses court bid to reopen beaches
The North Gauteng High Court has dismissed AfriForum’s application to have the closure of beaches overturned. This after President Cyril…
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High Court to hear AfriForum’s challenge over beache closures
Another challenge to the government’s COVID-19 regulations is expected to be heard in the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday.…
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Garden Route District mulls legal action over beach closures
The Garden Route District Municipality is willing to challenge beach closures in court. However, it says it will wait for…
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Education dept still concerned about credibility of matric exams due to leaked papers
Matrics won’t have to stress about rewriting their Maths and Science papers but there are still concerns about the quality…
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Matric Exams: Rewrite decision declared unlawful
The rewriting of matric exams has been set aside on Friday. Judge Norman Davis said the decision to rewrite was…
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Angie Motshekga doesn’t care about matrics, court hears in matric rewrite case
Arguments being made in the Gauteng High Court on Thursday so far have various applicants seeking to rebuke the Department…
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Judgment expected in Matric exams rewrite case
Judgment in the matric exam rewrite case is expected on Friday. The government argues matriculants will lose the entire academic…
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DBE cannot use blanket approach to deal with matric exam leaks, says AfriForum
AfriForum said the Department of Basic Education (DBE) could not use a blanket approach to deal with the matric exam…
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AfriForum to oppose matric rewrites in court
While some are welcoming plans to rewrite two matric exams due to leaked papers, others are dead-set against it. Both…
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AfriForum charges Julius Malema with hate speech for ‘Kill the Boer’
Minority rights group AfriForum has submitted charges to the Equality Court against EFF leader Julius Malema for his members singing…
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AfriForum loses court bid on Section 25
AfriForum has again lost a bid to challenge the constitutionality of the process to review section 25 of the Constitution.…
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Gerrie Nel: State has enough evidence to arrest Senzo Meyiwa killing mastermind
The family of slain Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa expressed their anguish as information surrounding the mastermind behind his murder…
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AfriForum on Senzo Meyiwa’s case – We found more incriminating evidence against the alleged mastermind
AfriForum has said it had found more incriminating evidence against the alleged mastermind in the Senzo Meyiwa case. The group…
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AfriForum and Solidarity open case against Julius Malema over police ‘threats’
Afrikaner lobby group AfriForum and labour union Solidarity have lodged a criminal complaint against Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius…
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Free State farmer shot dead and son stabbed in house robbery
A 56-year-old farmer in the Free State was fatally shot in the head by unknown assailants in the early hours…
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Senzo Meyiwa murder a hit, says AfriForum
AfriForum claims Senzo Meyiwa did not die in a robbery that went wrong, they say he was assassinated. Advocate Gerrie…
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ANC member takes #JohnVuliGateChallenge to Senekal – Video
A new dance craze has taken over South Africa in the form of the #JohnVuliGateChallenge. The challenge is so popular,…
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Violent scenes as rocks thrown at bikers trying to leave Senekal town
Rocks have been thrown and EFF supporters are threatening violence as a group of bikers in support of farmers are…
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Calls for more police resources mount in wake of latest Cape Town farm attack
While police continue their search for a group of men behind a farm attack in Kraaifontein, there are fresh calls…
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AfriForum calls on Public Protector to probe ANC’s use of Air Force jet for Zimbabwe trip
Lobby group AfriForum has written to Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, asking her to investigate the ANC’s use of a military…
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Julius Malema & Ndlozi’s cop assault trial to start in October
Afriforum welcomed the setting of a trial date. The trial in the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema and…
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Afrikaans singer Wynand Breedt shot dead
Police did not disclose any other details surrounding the shooting. Police are investing the murder of well-known Afrikaans singer Wynand…
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AfriForum sue Panyaza Lesufi for defamation over assassination claims
The legal action revolves around comments where Lesufi claimed in November last year that AfriForum has been following him, his…
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Gerrie Nel says municipality refuses to share investigation report for Chaka’s Rock arrests
The advocate, who heads Afriforum’s private prosecution unit, is representing six of the 11 residents charged with contravening the lockdown…
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Nomgcobo Jiba to face prosecution: AfriForum
AfriForum’s Private Prosecutions Unit says former Deputy National Director of Public Prosecutions, Nomgcobo Jiba, will face prosecution. The unit says…
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Solidarity & AfriForum now plan to take tourism minister to SCA
This after the Constitutional Court on Friday dismissed the organisations’ application for leave to appeal directly over the use of…
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COVID-19: AfriForum heads to court over forced quarantine
Lobby group AfriForum has launched a pre-emptive strike against possible plans by government to enforce a quarantine on all people…
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AfriForum & tourism minister at loggerheads over relief fund
Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane also denied that she had been served with court papers after the organization brought an urgent…
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Bheki Cele says AfriForum’s sanitizers are welcome, but they must use the right procedures
The police minister has further said concurrent reports about a SAPS employee contracting COVID-19 were ‘malicious’. In a statement on…
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AfriForum has withdrawn private prosecution of prominent businessman accused of child rape – NPA
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) in Gauteng says it has learned that lobby group AfriForum has withdrawn its private prosecution…
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