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Former President Jacob Zuma appears in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on 31 January 2022. Picture: Nhlanhla Mabaso/Eyewitness News

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SCA to hear Jacob Zuma appeal over medical parole matter

By Bernadette Wicks

Jacob Zuma's lawyers will square off against their counterparts from the Democratic Alliance (DA), the Helen Suzman Foundation and AfriForum in the Supreme...

  • FILE: Picture: SAPS.

    Piketberg residents devastated after well-known farmer murdered

    Police were called out to Piket Bo-Berg in the early hours of on Wednesday morning. They found the body of the 53-year-old man partly covered with a bin.

    13 days ago
  • Gauteng Education MEC Panyza Lesufi. Picture: @EducationGP1/Twitter

    Friday deadline for Lesufi's apology over AfriForum 'racist organisation' remark

    Gauteng ANC Chairperson and Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has until the end of Friday to issue a public apology for his remarks or face an R500,000 defamation lawsuit.

    19 days ago
  • FILE: AfrForum says that, in May alone, over 40 000 people were fined for not having valid drivers license cards. Picture: Pixabay.com

    AfriForum's court bid: Renew driver's licences every 10 years

    Africa Melane spoke to the campaign officer for strategy and content at AfriForum, Reiner Duvenage, about the lobby group heading to court over plans to do away with the five-year validity of a driving licence in South Africa.

    34 days ago
  • FILE: EFF leader Julius Malema in the East London Magistrates Court on 1 March 2022. Picture: @EFFSouthAfrica/Twitter.

    'Kill the boer': Malema buying top brands doesn't mean he can pay R500k - lawyer

    Counsel for the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has told the Johannesburg High Court that just because Julius Malema wears designer brands, doesn’t mean he or his party can afford to fork out R500,000 for damages in the 'Kill the boer' case.

    64 days ago
  • EFF party leader Julius Malema. Picture: @EFFSouthAfrica/Twitter

    Judgment reserved in the EFF vs AfriForum case

    Advocate Mfesane Ka-Siboto, representing the EFF, said the party's use of the song had been taken out of context.

    65 days ago
  • EFF leader Julius Malema testified in the civil case brought by the AfriForum in the Johannesburg High Court on 16 February 2022. Picture: @EFFSouthAfrica/Twitter.

    AfriForum bays for EFF's blood in 'kill the boer' song case

    Closing arguments in the case took place in the Equality Court, sitting in the Johannesburg High Court.

    65 days ago
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    AfriForum slams Dept of Basic Education's 'attack on Afrikaans'

    The Bill was introduced in Parliament in January and proposes, among others, requiring a provincial head of department’s approval of all public schools’ language policies.

    71 days ago
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    Mother finds closure after drunk driver convicted for killing her son in 2017

    The mother of a 26-year-old man who was killed by a drunk driver in 2017 says she can finally begin to find closure now that the perpetrator has been convicted.

    85 days ago
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    Action SA says proposed COVID-19 regulations will breach constitutional order

    Action SA says if new regulations for COVID-19 are allowed to stand, they will amount to a breach in the fabric of constitutional order.

    91 days ago
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    Health Department opposes challenge to new regulations by AfriForum and DearSA

    AfriForum, together with public participation platform DearSA, has approached the Pretoria High Court with an application to have the regulations for managing COVID-19 declared unconstitutional and invalid.

    91 days ago
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    Time running out for goverment to oppose COVID-19 regulations challenge

    Following the ending of the National State of Disaster - and most of its regulations - government this month published new measures to deal with the pandemic.

    92 days ago
  • Image: © andreyuu/123rf.com

    AfriForum back in court to challenge ban against displaying apartheid flag

    The organisation was in the Supreme Court of Appeal on Wednesday to try and overturn an Equality Court ruling declaring displays of the flag to be hate speech unless they are for artistic, academic, and journalistic purposes.

    98 days ago
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    AfriForum threatens legal action over plans to promulgate new health regulations

    The state of disaster declared in the wake of COVID-19 along with most of the regulations promulgated under it was officially terminated last month.

    105 days ago
  • Defend Our Democracy campaign  and  other organisations  picketing  outside state capture commission.

    Pressure groups offer the best hope for South Africa’s democracy

    South Africans have learnt that democracy isn’t a destination that they reached with the formal end of apartheid, it's a lifelong quest to keep up the pressure against corruption, and on elected representatives to deliver on their promises.

    111 days ago
  • FILE: Cabinet states that former President Nelson Mandela understood this, which is why Cuba was the first country outside the continent that he visited upon his release from prison in 1990. Picture: Greg Montani/Pixabay.com

    Cuba's crisis 'untenable': Cabinet reacts to court order halting R50m donation

    The Pretoria High Court this week granted the order stopping the R50 million in humanitarian aid to the small island nation.

    145 days ago
  • FILE: International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor. Picture: @SAgovnews/Twitter

    Dirco to challenge court ruling on R50 million donation to Cuba

    The High Court in Pretoria granted lobby group AfriForum an urgent interdict against the department's plans to donate the money, which insisted was aimed at alleviating social ills in Cuba brought about by sanctions imposed by South Africa.

    147 days ago
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    AfriForum continues fight to overturn government’s R50 million donation to Cuba

    Lobby group AfriForum will have to convince a court that government's decision to donate R50 million to Cuba should be overturned.

    147 days ago
  • FILE: The court's ruling halts the donation pending the outcome of AfriForum's review application. Picture: 123rf.com

    Court halts SA's R50 million donation to Cuba

    AfriForum approached the courts to stop the donation, arguing that South Africa itself is in a strained financial state and is in no position to be assisting other countries.

    148 days ago
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