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King Dalindyebo's wife quits EFF
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has suffered another blow with the resignation of prominent member Nolubabalo "Babsie" Mcinga, who has stepped down from her position in the National Council of Pro...Published: 19 Nov 2024 at 15:08hrs | 1092 | by Staff reporter
Julius Malema's EFF implodes
South Africa's radical opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), appears to be on a downward spiral after another high-profile member defected to ex-President Jacob Zuma's party.D...Published: 09 Nov 2024 at 20:43hrs | 2171 | by Staff reporter
Malema predicts more departures from EFF
Despite the number of prominent and high-ranking figures dumping the EFF to join the MK Party, the fiery party leader, Julius Malema has signalled more exits, adamantly saying his party will remain st...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 15:48hrs | 2166 | by Staff reporter
EFF chairperson joins MK Party
Former EFF chairperson advocate Dali Mpofu has quit the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party.Mpofu said he would be joining Jacob Zuma's MK Party.In an interview on SABC Morning Live,...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 08:00hrs | 1854 | by Staff reporter
ZAA Founder on Diaspora, ZIG, Xenophobia and Julius Malema
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."Aristotle's age-old dictum has been used and sometimes abused to the point of cliché.But whatever truth; b...Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 13:02hrs | 559 | by Staff Reporter
Xiluva leader Bongani Baloyi to join Zuma's MKP
Xiluva leader and former Midvaal mayor Bongani Baloyi is set to join the Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party this week, Sunday World reported.Baloyi is set to make the big announcement this week on We...Published: 02 Sep 2024 at 14:26hrs | 853 | by Staff reporter
Malema and EFF will survive
Since its inception, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has waged and survived many political battles with Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu side by side, until last week when Shivambu dumped the EFF ...Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 21:03hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Julius Sello Malema: a politician full of contradictions
Comments about Malema in the in South African social media confirmed my fears about him. Malema does not take critiques kindly; for this reason, he has fallen out with his right-hand-man, Shivambu: th...Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 19:26hrs | 1098 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mkhwebane and Carl Niehaus refute claims they are ditching the EFF
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) members Carl Niehaus and Busisiwe Mkhwebane have refuted claims that they were leaving the party after news emerged today that Floyd Shivambu has resigned from the part...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 13:47hrs | 526 | by Staff reporter
Floyd Shivambu, Jimmy Manyi joins Zunma's MK party
EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu has informed the party of his intention to resign, adding that the MK party has offered him a senior leadership position. Shivambu informed the EFF top...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 11:11hrs | 1281 | by Staff reporter
Malema set to hold emergency EFF meeting
The tables are turning in the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), with party leader Julius Malema set to hold an emergency meeting on Thursday.Eyewitness News understands the meeting is in relati...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 10:43hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Floyd Shivambu quits as the EFF's deputy president
Floyd Shivambu resigned as the EFF's deputy president on Wednesday night.Well-placed national leadership sources told News24 that Shivambu's reasons for leaving were secret.A pres...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 10:41hrs | 796 | by Staff reporter
'No' to meeting Raymond Zondo
The EFF has poured cold water on the United Democratic Movement's (UDM) proposed meeting with Chief Justice Raymond Zondo.Last week, the UDM leader General Bantu Holomisa wrote to Zondo asking...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 12:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa Parliament imposes sanctions on Floyd Shivambu
South Africa’s Parliamentary Joint Committee on Ethics and Members' Interests has ruled that EFF’s Deputy President for failing to disclose that he had received R 180 000 from the now defunct Vend...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 14:10hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
South Africa Parliament imposes sanctions on Floyd Shivambu
South Africa’s Parliamentary Joint Committee on Ethics and Members' Interests has ruled that EFF’s Deputy President for failing to disclose that he had received R 180 000 from the now defunct Vend...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 14:08hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
International funders behind eSwatini 'winter revolution'
There are claims that at the centre of the pro-democracy movement riots in eSwatini is a sponsored move for a power grab of resources funded by prominent international organisations with vested intere...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
By-elections fail credibility test
THE by-elections set for tomorrow have revealed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is stuck in the past by continuing to abuse state institutions and independent commissions to manipul...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Sending Jacob Zuma to jail was not a wise move'
EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu has accused the Constitutional Court of using apartheid tactics to imprison former president Jacob Zuma for 15 months for contempt of court.Shivambu also cr...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 19:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa follows the money, ditches Ahmad Ahmad?
PICTURES of Zimbabwean businessman and Cosafa head Philip Chiyangwa endorsing the candidature of Patrice Motsepe for the Confederation of African Football (Caf) presidency seem to suggest he has offic...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Storm helps stranded travellers at Beitbridge
A VIOLENT storm that lashed Beitbridge on Tuesday night brought smiles on thousands of stranded Zimbabweans crossing into South Africa as the harsh weather forced immigration officials to hurriedly cl...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Africans have last laugh
Africans are responding to the chaos at the US Capitol with irony, sarcasm and humour. #Trump started trending on Twitter in places like Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya as the platform blocked the US ...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:24hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Questions over Amnesty fraud unanswered
What is going on at Amnesty International? First, two staff members killed themselves last year. Then an internal review ordered by Amnesty secretary-general Kumi Naidoo revealed a "toxic" wor...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:42hrs | | by International Policy Digest.
Exposing the log in Amnesty's eyes
AMNESTY International's ability to speak authoritatively on alleged human rights abuses in Zimbabwe has come under scrutiny after it closed its Harare branch in June over alleged abuse of donor funds ...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:39hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Plot to assassinate EFF's Floyd Shivambu
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema claims that the party leadership has "hardcore evidence" that there is a plan to assassinate the deputy president of the party, Floyd Shivambu."T...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 20:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
The MDC congress: All froth, no beer
The much-vaunted MDC elective congress ended the week before last. Some people such as those who were rejected by their own people, but had to give 10 head of cattle as an offering to the god of the p...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 07:05hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
The MDC Congress: So much hype, so much hot air
The much-vaunted MDC elective congress ended the week before last. Some people such as those who were rejected by their own people but had to give 10 head of cattle as an offering to the god o...Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 13:12hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
MDC linked Amnesty International Zimbabwe suspended over corrupt
Amnesty International Zimbabwe, which was exposed in an audit that unearthed serious fraud and mismanagement involving millions of United States dollars has been suspended from its mother body, Amnest...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Massive fraud at Amnesty International Zimbabwe
An audit has unearthed serious fraud and financial mismanagement involving millions of dollars at Amnesty International Zimbabwe. Amnesty, an international human rights organisation that has b...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 22:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malema should mind his own business
Following the three-day protest stay away, which was ostensibly given as meant to register disquiet over the prevailing economic challenges, the South African controversial Economic Freedom Fighters (...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 11:28hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
'Pravin Gordhan has offshore bank account with balance of over R660m in illicit proceeds '
EFF leader Julius Malema claims that Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan holds an unlawful bank account in Canada which has a balance of more than R665m. The EFF leader says the funds are th...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 16:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
SA adopts report recommending expropriating land without compensation
The Joint Constitutional Review Committee on Thursday adopted a resolution that Section 25 of the Constitution be amended to allow expropriation without compensation. Following a lengthy proce...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 14:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Be strong young man, lead my people!
I MUST admit that I really underestimated this young Wamba kid. I had initially never given him much chance, but I am really gratified and very delighted that God and the gods timely intervened in the...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 19:07hrs | | by CZ
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 | | by news24
Malema warns of 'unled revolution' in South Africa
Economic Freedom Fighter leader Julius Malema has warned of an "unled revolution" in South Africa, as black people "are worse off in democracy than they were under apartheid"."If things are go...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by News24
WATCH: Is Malusi Gigaba a Zimbabwean?
Floyd Shivambu of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) asked Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba in parliament on Tuesday why he took offence when asked about his nationality. According to T...Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 20:43hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa cannot do anything to stop Zuma from firing him
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says he cannot do anything to stop President Jacob Zuma from removing him from his position in government if wished to do so. This comes after media reports th...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 14:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe winners of the 2017 Cosafa Castle Cup - Final Celebration Images and Awards
Zimbabwe winners of the 2017 Cosafa Castle Cup match between Zambia and Zimbabwe at Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg on 09 July 2017 ©Samuel Shivambu/BackpagePix...Published: 10 Jul 2017 at 10:24hrs | | by Samuel Shivambu/BackpagePix
'Whites will lose everything,' says Malema
Success is associated with whiteness, EFF leader Julius Malema said at a Rand Merchant Bank event yesterday.If white people can't see this, and if they don't help to solve the country's proble...Published: 07 Jul 2017 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mawarire hijacked, trivialised students' cause
\"STUDENT activism is a highly conflict-filled terrain with very passionate individuals and groups involved'' said one scholar, (Moyo: 2013) in his journal article as he looked at the relationship bet...Published: 29 Jun 2017 at 06:31hrs | | by Blessing Vava
Nelson Mandela lives on, June 16, an icon is born!
New York, United States - June 16, 1976 is the day of bloodbath on the streets of South African townships, Soweto being the epicentre of one of the worst manisfestations of apartheid brutality....Published: 15 Jun 2017 at 22:20hrs | | by Dr. Wangu Mazodze
Malema pleads with Mugabe to step down with immediate effect
South African opposition leader Julius Malema has once again said President Robert Mugabe must step down, as he accused the long-time ruler of destroying the little left of his legacy by clinging on t...Published: 27 May 2017 at 16:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
EFF leader fails to convince wife to leave ANC
The deputy president of the Economic Freedom Fighters‚ Floyd Shivambu‚ has tied the knot‚ according to the political party’s official twitter account. According to reports‚ he marrie...Published: 02 May 2017 at 19:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malema facing fresh revolt over control of money within EFF
EFF leader Julius Malema is facing a fresh revolt within his party over the management of party finances....Published: 26 Mar 2017 at 11:50hrs | | by TimesLive
Kevin Malunga eliminated from SA Public Protector race
Cape Town - Five candidates will now be vying for the Public Protector position after a swift cutting down of the candidate list on Thursday, ...Published: 18 Aug 2016 at 21:24hrs | 1 | by Thulani Gqirana, News24 | News24
Kevin Malunga denounced his Zimbabwean citizenship in 2010
Deputy Public Protector Kevin Malunga does not have the required security clearance to get his boss's job, a parliamentary committee heard on Thursday.The ad hoc committee tasked with find...Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 09:08hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Julius Malema, leave the drama to Morgan Tsvangirai!
The heat is on in South Africa. Things have been moving far too heady in that country, politically and economically. President Jacob Zuma of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is seen as the m...Published: 27 Apr 2016 at 10:10hrs | 1 | by Tichaona Zindoga
'We were beaten big time' says Malema
Cape Town - Most of the EFF MPs removed from the National Assembly during President Jacob Zuma's eighth State of the Nation address were beaten up, party leader Julius Malema said on Friday."W...Published: 13 Feb 2015 at 12:41hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Fist fights break out in SA Parliament
Cape Town - Fist fights broke out as Economic Freedom Fighters MPs were dragged out the National Assembly during the State of the Nation address on Thursday evening.The MPs tried to stand thei...Published: 12 Feb 2015 at 17:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Magical' snakes invade family home
A family from Mhinga Village, outside Malamulele in Limpopo, SA, are living in fear after their home is invaded by snakes.50-year-old Masingita Shivambu said the problem started 10 years ago....Published: 31 Jan 2015 at 12:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Amnesty International: Zimbabwe breaches its own Constitution
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 02 October 2014 Hundreds to be left homeless as Zimbabwe bulldozes "illegal settlements' with impunity T...Published: 02 Oct 2014 at 20:55hrs | | by Amnesty International
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