Winnie Mandela is better than the government of the ANC combined ― Malema: Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema said on Wednesday that the democratic government protected all the symbols that reminded South Africans of apartheid, but failed to protect a symbol of hope like the Brandfort home of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. “The house is dilapidated, yet the statue of Paul Kruger decorates Church Square in Pretoria, receiving protection from the democratic government. “They could not protect the house that housed their own, yet they protect everything else that reminds us of apartheid. They protect the murderers who killed the people who fought…
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Battle between police and IT supplier heads to court: The battle between the police and a supplier that switched off access to critical IT systems last week, has hit the courts. Last week, Forensic Data Analysts (FDA), a police supplier which has been accused of corruption, threatened to suspend the police’s Property Control and Exhibit Management (PCEM) and Firearm Permit System (FPS), unless the police and the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) pay them. READ MORE: FDA threatens to ‘collapse criminal justice system’ The company, run by businessman Keith Keating, claimed SITA had not paid them for five months for their services. The two systems ― as well as a…
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Baby X’s gran dies in jail: Durban – Tortured by her mother and grandmother, tied to a bed at night, battered and starved for days, 3-year-old Baby X will not get the justice her community demands following her 55-year-old grandmother’s death at Westville Prison on Tuesday after she experienced shortness of breath. The woman had been due to hear her fate in the Durban High Court on August 20. Legal Aid spokesperson Bongani Mahlangu confirmed on Thursday that the attorney representing the Chatsworth woman had received news of her death. She had been on trial with her daughter, the child’s mother, since 2015. Final arguments were due to have begun in June and judgment had been set down for August. The woman and her…
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Dintwe: SSA boss Fraser threatened me after becoming subject of fraud probe: The State Security Agency director-general is being investigated for allegedly setting up an unlawful intelligence structure as well as awarding tenders to family and friends. ……
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[WATCH] De Lille speaks at EFF memorial for Madikizela-Mandela: Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille attended the EFF memorial service for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in Brandfort as a ‘special colleague’ and shared some of her memories of the struggle icon. ……
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[WATCH] EFF honours Madikizela-Mandela in Brandfort: The Economic Freedom Fighters honoured anti-apartheid icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at a memorial service in Brandfort. ……
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DA: De Lille should have informed party of EFF memorial appearance: Although not the only DA politician at the event in Brandfort in the Free State, the party says she should have informed them that she had been invited to speak at the event. ……
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‘At the end, she was very proud of the ANC’: The personal assistant of the late Winnie Madikizela-Mandela says the struggle stalwart was proud of what had become of the African National Congress (ANC) lately. ……
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Tributes pour in for ANC’s Zola Skweyiya: Leaders of the ANC and opposition party politicians on Wednesday paid tribute to late veteran politician Dr Zola Skweyiya, who has been described as a champion of the poor and an exemplary leader. Skweyiya was a member of the country’s first democratic cabinet in 1994…
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Parties unite to celebrate Winnie: There was an unusual display of camaraderie among political parties on Wednesday as South Africans gathered to celebrate the…
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