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Zanu-PF hopes Pretoria and Washington find each other and mend relations
National spokesperson of Zimbabwe's ruling party, Zanu-PF, Christopher Mutsvangwa has expressed his party's support as South Africa seeks to fix bilateral relations with the United States led by Presi...Published: 02 Apr 2025 at 10:12hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt dismisses AfriForum's application for leave to appeal 'Kill the boer' ruling
The Constitutional Court has dismissed AfriForum's application for leave to appeal over the "Kill the boer" chant.The apex court found that there were no reasonable prospects of success in the...Published: 27 Mar 2025 at 17:27hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Trump's US is looking for a political showdown with South Africa
The debate on Ebrahim Rasool's public expulsion as South Africa's ambassador to the US has focussed on the wisdom of his remarks. But this debate misses the substantive issues at stake. First, the pub...Published: 16 Mar 2025 at 13:44hrs | 1296 | by Adam Habib
Ramaphosa criticizes South Africa's white right-wing groups
President Cyril Ramaphosa has lashed out at white right-wing organizations in South Africa, particularly Afriforum and the Solidarity Movement, for their recent decision to travel to the United States...Published: 01 Mar 2025 at 09:30hrs | 1201 | by Staff reporter
Afrikaaners seek information on Trump's refugee programme
In the 18 hours after President Donald Trump's order to prioritise white Afrikaner South Africans for the US refugee programme, the South African Chamber of Commerce in the USA (SACCUSA) received over...Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 11:59hrs | 874 | by Staff reporter
Afrikaners reject Trump's US refuge offer
Afrikaner interest group AfriForum and trade union Solidarity have publicly rejected US President Donald Trump's offer to prioritize white Afrikaners as refugees in the United States, declaring their ...Published: 08 Feb 2025 at 19:14hrs | 1427 | by Staff reporter
South African education bill threatens Ramaphosa, DA deal
The second-biggest party in South Africa's unity government said on Wednesday that an education bill President Cyril Ramaphosa plans to sign into law this week endangers the coalition deal, the first ...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 13:51hrs | 679 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's GNU partner suggests scrapping BEE
The Freedom Front Plus has urged the removal of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and Affirmative Action (AA) policies, arguing that they are detrimental and obstruct economic growth.The party ...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 12:46hrs | 927 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's Constitutional Court makes law to have eye
AfriForum reports that it has made progress towards its objective of getting the Constitutional Court to revoke Dr. John Hlophe's appointment as a member of the Judicial Services Commission (JSC)....Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 09:19hrs | 926 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi State proponents have exhausted internal remedies
Mqondisi Moyo, leader of the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP), has announced that the party has exhausted all internal avenues in their quest to restore the Mthwakazi State and address issues such as th...Published: 19 Aug 2024 at 07:15hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
MK Party to march against 'racist' Helen Zille
The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) will embark on a massive march in Durban on Wednesday amid a wave of criticism against DA federal chairperson Helen Zille for referring to the MKP and EFF as "dogs"....Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 16:34hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Justice Mbatha and a white judge blocks Malema, EFF from repossessing land
AfriForum on Wednesday welcomed a ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal to dismiss the application of leave to appeal by EFF leader Julius Malema and his party against an interdict which AfriForum won...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 07:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Exemption Permits court challenge, Whites are fond of slavery
THE news that the Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) has taken our government to court to overturn the termination of the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEPs), while infuriating, should not come as a surprise...Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 18:52hrs | 12 | by Mogomotsi Mogodiri
SA army tells Afrikaner rights organisation to back off border areas
THE South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has told AfriForum that safeguarding and patrolling the country's borders is its responsibility and not for "any other non-State groupings or groups"....Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
South Africa dismisses Afrikaner nationalists border patrol claims
South Africa's Home Affairs department has dismissed claims by lobby group South Africa's Home Affairs that it is patrolling the border between the neighbouring country and Zimbabwe at Musina in Limpo...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 10:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Afrikaner nationalists to patrol Musina border in with sniffer dogs
The ultra-right-wing Afrikaner organisation, AfriForum, has announced it has launched a new initiative to patrol with sniffer dogs at the porous South Africa-Zimbabwe border in Limpopo's Musina area....Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 16:23hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Pro whites group launch project to help secure South Africa's Beitbridge border
Afrikaner rights organisation, AfriForum has launched a new project to help secure South Africa's borders, this comes after South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa allowed vigilante groups to oper...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 09:16hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo heaps praises on Julius Malema
Exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo has heaped praises on South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters leader Sello Julius Malema. Moyo was commenting on a video clip of Malema's court case where he is...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 09:30hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Stop using veterinary drug for COVID-19 treatment'
THE Zimbabwe College of Public Health Physicians (ZCPHP) yesterday added its voice in calling for the total ban of controversial prescriptions and use of the veterinary drug, Ivermectin, which is repo...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
White farmers burn police car in South Africa
A group of farmers stormed the Senekal Magistrate's Court building on Tuesday demanding that the suspects who are accused of killing a white farmer be handed over to them. According to picture...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 15:24hrs | 12 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ramaphosa to be impeached over ANC's Zimbabwe trip?
Even when President Cyril Ramaphosa was satisfied with Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula's explanation of the ANC's use of the state aircraft for party purposes in Zimbabwe, the president and m...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Outrage over ANC's Zimbabwe trip
A blatant and arrogant abuse of South Africa's military by the ANC.That's how the governing party's trip to meet Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe has been described by opposition parties.The party ...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
AfriForum wants Public Protector to probe ANC's use of military 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 jet in its trip to Harare, Zimbabwe. In a letter to Mkhwebane, A...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 18:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Civil society activists on Zimbabwe military watch list
THE Zimbabwe National Army's Military Intelligence (MI) unit has placed on its watchlist several civil society activists it claims are conniving with United States to unseat President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
SA prosecuting authority applies for Grace Mugabe extradition - report
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Tuesday kept mum about Afriforum's claims that the NPA has applied for the extradition of Zimbabwe's former first lady Grace Mugabe.The purported ex...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 21:00hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean white farmers lodge a R1.9bn compensation claim against South Africa
In what we hope is the final phase of a protracted legal struggle for justice in Zimbabwe, Willie Spies, the legal representative of AfriForum, a South African civil rights initiative, lodged papers i...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 13:55hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
How CIOs set up Grace Mugabe to beat up Gabriella Engels
A new book called Two Weeks in November by Douglas Rodgers has revealed that former First Lady Grace Mugabe fell into a well laid up plan by some members of the Central Intelligence Organisation which...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 09:35hrs | 8 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Grace Mugabe gets Zimbabwe govt support
Zimbabwe's deputy information minister says extraditing former first lady Grace Mugabe to South Africa would constitute "harassment".South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has iss...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 09:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reportetr
SA issues warrant of arrest for Grace Mugabe
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) of South Africa has issued an arrest warrant for former first lady Grace Mugabe. She assaulted South African model Gabriella Engels at a hotel in Johanne...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 09:37hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
SADC headache for Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has a new regional headache after the South African Constitutional Court yesterday ordered President Cyril Ramaphosa to withdraw his signature from the 2014 Protocol, whic...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 10:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe sons 'pressurising' model girlfriend to drop Grace assault charges
One of the sons of former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe has allegedly been pressuring Gabriella Engels to drop the charges against his mother.Engels is the Joburg model who filed assault ch...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 10:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
South Africa lashes Trump over land 'seizures' tweet
South Africa accused US President Donald Trump of fuelling racial tensions yesterday after he said farmers were being forced off their land and many of them killed.Trump's tweet touched on the...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
SA govt throws Grace Mugabe under the bus
The South African government will not appeal a South Gauteng High Court judgment that ruled the decision to grant former Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe diplomatic immunity was "an error of law". ...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 10:09hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe off the hook?
She has no immunity, but is still very unlikely to stand trial courtesy to political considerations.Implementing an arrest warrant against Zimbabwe's former First Lady Grace Mugabe will be ver...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 06:57hrs | | by Karyn Maughan
It would be 'unwise' for Grace Mugabe to visit SA again
It would be "unwise" for former Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe to enter South Africa again.This is the view of Nicole Fritz, executive director of Freedom Under Law.Fritz told News...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 16:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe to be issued with SA warrant of arrest?
The South Gauteng High Court has set aside the decision to grant former Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe diplomatic immunity.Judge Bashier Vally handed down the judgment on Monday and said t...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 14:16hrs | 3 | by City Press
Afriforum calling NPA to prosecute Grace Mugabe
The decision to grant former Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe diplomatic immunity is "inconsistent with the constitution", the South Gauteng High Court found on Monday. Judge Bashier Vally s...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 11:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Grace Mugabe's diplomatic immunity 'unconstitutional'
The decision to grant former Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe diplomatic immunity is "inconsistent with the constitution", the South Gauteng High Court found on Monday. Judge Bashier Vally s...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 11:42hrs | | by TimesLive
Malema hits out 'house niggars'
Firebrand EFF leader Julius Malema has lashed out at the way Africans are perceived when talking about white or Indian racism, calling some black reporters who are critical of his party "house niggars...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 14:27hrs | 1 | by news24
Grace Mugabe can't buy justice
Acting Judge Bashier Vally on Friday reserved judgment in an application by lobby group AfriForum against the decision by the international relations and cooperation minister to grant diplomatic immun...Published: 11 May 2018 at 14:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA didn't grant, but only recognised Grace Mugabe immunity
The South African government did not grant diplomatic immunity to Zimbabwe's former first lady Grace Mugabe, but only recognised it after the 2017 assault charge, a lawyer representing the foreign min...Published: 11 May 2018 at 14:29hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Grace Mugabe's immunity under threat
TWO South African minority rights groups have piled pressure on the South African High Court to strip Zimbabwe's former First Lady Grace Mugabe of her diplomatic immunity, so that she could be prosecu...Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe must come back to face assault charge
The young Johannesburg model Gabriella Engels who opened assault charges against Grace Mugabe in 2017, on Thursday said she hoped Zimbabwe's former first lady would be brought back to South Africa to ...Published: 10 May 2018 at 15:13hrs | | by Agencies
Grace Mugabe immunity: Court between a rock and a hard place
The High Court in Pretoria was presented with a legal dilemma on Thursday as it considered the diplomatic immunity granted to former Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe.The court was not sure w...Published: 10 May 2018 at 12:28hrs | 1 | by TimesLive
SA court decides Grace Mugabe's fate today
The Pretoria High Court will today give itself a chance to decide an issue that could lead to the revocation of diplomatic immunity granted to Grace Mugabe, paving the way for her to face prosecution ...Published: 10 May 2018 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe in trouble
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe is facing fresh trouble in South Africa, with a case in which her diplomatic immunity is being challenged set to begin tomorrow.Authorities in South Africa grant...Published: 09 May 2018 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe to appear in SA Court?
According to the AfriForum Media Statement, The civil rights watchdog AfriForum's application against an earlier decision by the Minister of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (...Published: 08 May 2018 at 11:28hrs | 1 | by A. Mhlongo
Grace Mugabe assault case latest
Civil rights watchdog AfriForum said on Thursday that the North Gauteng High Court will next month hear a case against the granting of diplomatic immunity to Zimbabwe First Lady Grace Mugabe by the So...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 12:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Hope for ex-Zimbabwe white farmers
FORMER Zimbabwean commercial farmers, who lost their properties during the land reform programme, say they are now optimistic of receiving a fair hearing and compensation after a South African court l...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zuma govt lose SADC Tribunal closure case
Judgment in court case against President Zuma and the South African government for their role in the closure of the SADC TribunalToday the Pretoria High Court handed down judgment in the prolo...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 16:30hrs | | by Willie Spies
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