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  • FILE: Black First Land First Leader Andile Mngxitama and members of his party arrive at the IEC head offices in Centurion. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN

    IEC ordered to gazette BLF’s registration as a political party

    The ruling means the BLF will be allowed to contest the 8 May elections until the IEC reviews its decision to allow the FF Plus the opportunity to oppose the BLF’s registration.

    1199 days ago
  • FILE: FF Plus leader Pieter Groenewald at the party's manifesto launch on Saturday, 2 March. Picture: FF Plus Facebook.

    FF Plus heads to Electoral Court to get BLF off the ballot

    This follows the IEC’s decision to reject an FF Plus appeal against the chief electoral officers’ decision to register the BLF, which is led by Andile Mngxitama.

    1205 days ago
  • Freedom Front Plus Western Cape leader Corne Mulder says the District Six housing project should have been handled at a provincial - and not national level. Picture: Kevin Brandt/EWN

    FF Plus blames District Six land restitution delays on BEE

    First, it was Eskom, now the Freedom Front Plus is blaming delays in developing District Six on the ANC’s policies around black economic empowerment.

    1217 days ago
  • Freedom Front Plus Western Cape leader Corne Mulder says the District Six housing project should have been handled at a provincial - and not national level. Picture: Kevin Brandt/EWN

    FF Plus and ANC trade barbs over District Six redevelopment project

    FF Plus believes the redevelopment project could have been completed sooner had it been handled locally.

    1217 days ago
  • FILE: Peter Marais (c) will run as the Freedom Front Plus premier candidate for the 2019 general elections. Picture: EWN.

    FF Plus’s Peter Marais: ANC’s affirmative action plans to blame for Eskom crisis

    FF Plus premier candidate Peter Marais says white and coloured engineers at the power utility were replaced by lesser-qualified black professionals.

    1218 days ago
  • FILE: Peter Marais (c) will run as the Freedom Front Plus premier candidate for the 2019 general elections. Picture: EWN

    FF Plus premier candidate wants WC free from rest of SA

    Peter Marais is advocating for self-determination in the Western Cape ahead of the general elections in May.

    1218 days ago
  • DA supporters welcome party leader Mmusi Maimane in Kimberley during the opposition party's election campaign in the province. Picture: @Our_DA/Twitter.

    Maimane accuses FF Plus of being divisive, calls for unity in SA

    DA leader Mmusi Maimane is on the campaign trail in Kimberley, Northern Cape, where the party is hoping to unseat the African National Congress.

    1229 days ago
  • Patricia de Lille and Brett Herron at the Good party manifesto launch. Picture: Cindy Archillies/EWN.

    Smaller parties fight back, accuse DA of using fear-mongering tactics

    The official opposition has managed to form coalition governments in towns across the country with the help of smaller parties, like the African Christian Democratic Party and Freedom Front Plus.

    1231 days ago
  • DA MP John Steenhuisen at the party's rally in Potchefstroom in the North West on 23 March 2019. Picture: Johni Steenkamp/Twitter

    DA chief whip Steenhuisen labels FF Plus a party of the past

    Steenhuisen was one of the speakers at the party’s manifesto launch in the province. He switched to Afrikaans to attack the Freedom Front Plus as he addressed a rally in the competitor’s heartland.

    1236 days ago
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa replies to questions in the National Assembly, in Cape Town. Picture: GCIS.

    Ramaphosa misleading SA on nationalisation of banks, says FF+

    The party has accused Ramaphosa of lying, alleging that he told investors in Davos that the South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) would not be nationalised to safeguard its independence.

    1249 days ago
  • A general view of Cape Town International Airport. Picture: @WesternCapeGov/Twitter

    Rename CT Airport to Krotoa International Airport, says FF Plus

    The party staged a demonstration at Parliament on Tuesday against the Economic Freedom Fighters draft motion, calling for the airport’s name to be changed.

    1253 days ago
  • The EFF's section in Parliament. Picture: EWN.

    EFF won't rest until Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s name given 'honour it deserves'

    The party’s motion to get Parliament to back its campaign to have Cape Town International Airport named after the struggle icon was defeated on Tuesday when MPs instead supported an amended version put forward by the ANC.

    1253 days ago
  • FF Plus leader Pieter Groenewald at the party's manifesto launch on Saturday 2 March 2019. Picture: FF Plus Facebook.

    FF Plus may gain votes from 'unhappy white' DA supporters, says analyst

    The Freedom Front Plus has called for the scrapping of affirmative action and quota policies at universities and other organisations.

    1255 days ago
  • FF Plus leader Pieter Groenewald at the party's manifesto launch on Saturday 2 March 2019. Picture: FF Plus Facebook.

    FF Plus calls for scrapping of affirmative action, university quota policies

    Leader Pieter Groenewald has slammed the BEE policy labelling it as black elite enrichment.

    1256 days ago
  • FF Plus leader Pieter Groenewald at the party's manifesto launch on Saturday 2 March 2019. Picture: FF Plus Facebook.

    FF Plus labels BEE 'black elite enrichment', calls for it to be scrapped

    FF Plus leader Pieter Groenewald has called for the scrapping of affirmative action and BEE and says race mustn’t be the criteria to help poor people.

    1256 days ago
  • Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Groenewald. Picture: Freedom Front Plus.

    FF Plus: 'We don’t make false promises, what we say, we will do'

    The party launched its manifesto this morning at the Rockwood Theatre in Pretoria on Saturday.

    1257 days ago
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: GCIS

    Stop land expropriation without compensation, FF+ tells Ramaphosa

    At a dinner at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month, Ramaphosa intimated the country had lost almost a decade of growth and development under Zuma.

    1273 days ago
  • Peter Marais (c) will run as the Freedom Front Plus premier candidate for the 2019 general elections. Picture:Lindsay Dentlinger/EWN

    FFPlus: 'Marais will keep other political parties on their toes'

    Peter Marais, who will be running as the Freedom Front Plus' Western Cape premier candidate, says that he's not only counting on coloured people for support but all those who share the values of self-determination and advancing minority rights.

    1295 days ago
  • Peter Marais (c) will run as the Freedom Front Plus premier candidate for the 2019 general elections. Picture:Lindsay Dentlinger/EWN

    Marais says returning to politics at request of minority groups

    The party on Tuesday announced that 70-year-old Peter Marais, a former premier and Cape Town mayor, has officially joined the party.

    1295 days ago
  • Peter Marais (c) will run as the Freedom Front Plus premier candidate for the 2019 general elections. Picture:Lindsay Dentlinger/EWN

    Peter Marais re-enters political ring as WC premier candidate for FF Plus

    The former Western Cape premier and Cape Town mayor has now joined the Freedom Front Plus and will be running as the party’s premier candidate in this year’s elections.

    1296 days ago
  • The constitutional review committee has on 15 November 2018 adopted its final report that recommends the amendment of Section 25 of the Constitution. Picture: @ParliamentofRSA/Twitter

    Opposition parties: Land expropriation fight has just begun

    While all parties represented in Parliament support land reform, there are sharp divisions on how this should be done.

    1363 days ago
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