The Economic Freedom Fighters claims Agang SA has lured its members to defect after Agang welcomed more than 100 former EFF members.
Agang SA lured members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in Gauteng to defect with promises that they
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Black models complain about ‘racism’ in fashion industry
Bethann Hardison’s Balance Diversity campaign is gaining steam–and some very famous advocates.
Supermodel icons Naomi Campbell and Iman, both of whom have persevered over the industry’s prejudice, are publicly throwing their support behind Hardison, who last week sent open letters … Read the rest
Cubans coming to tackle SA’s water crisis
South Africa is looking to Cuba – a country with its own urban water problems – for engineers and geo-hydrologists to help it tackle its looming water infrastructure crisis.
Water Affairs Minister Edna Molewa last night signed an agreement with … Read the rest
Anti-fracking movement gains momentum
The momentum of the anti-fracking movement is growing as concerned communities across the globe feel the threat of natural gas development. On October 19, activists around the world will join together for the second annual Global Frackdown, an international day … Read the rest
Malema, EFF backs Zanu-PF
Newly formed South African political party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) yesterday called on Zimbabweans to vote overwhelmingly for Zanu-PF in the July 31 harmonised elections to protect the gains of the war of liberation.The EFF party is led by
Martin Keevy ‘not fit to stand trial’ in treason case
One of four rightwingers accused of plotting to murder senior ANC leaders is not fit to stand trial, his lawyer said on Friday.
Martin Keevy, 49, of Bloemfontein appeared in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court on charges of treason and conspiracy … Read the rest
Plan for single African coastal policy
African leaders are looking seriously at an integrated maritime domain around the continent.
Such a domain would include an exclusive economic zone that would be key to the development of a sustainable “blue economy” for the continent. Today, each country … Read the rest
Snowden: Fresh allegations against the British, Germans
For weeks now, officials at intelligence services around the world have been in suspense as one leak after another from whistleblower Edward Snowden has been published. Be it America’s National Security Agency, Britain’s GCHQ or systems like Prism or Tempora, … Read the rest
Putin: Egypt going the same way as Syria
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has said that Egypt risks slipping into civil war following the military overthrow of president Mohamed Morsi.
CIA helped jail Mandela
Chicago Tribune —– June 10, 1990 – WASHINGTON – For nearly 28 years the U.S. government has harbored an increasingly embarrassing secret: A CIA tip to South African intelligence agents led to the arrest that put black nationalist leader Nelson … Read the rest
Marine Le Pen demands political asylum for Snowden
Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s anti-immigration National Front (FN) party, has demanded that the country give former American defense contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden immediate political asylum.
In an open message, Le Pen said she was demanding French President … Read the rest
Pan Africanist Youth leader calls Mandela a ‘sell-out’
Pan Africanist Youth Congress of Azania spokesman Sello Tladi said former president Nelson Mandela was a sell-out, The Citizen reported on Monday..
“He betrayed us by rubber-stamping the 1913 Land Act through the adoption of [the] Freedom Charter,” Tladi was … Read the rest
Rand Paul to challenge unconstitutional snooping by US
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul took to Fox News Sunday to declare his legal opposition to the NSA’s surveillance programs. “I’m going to be seeing if I can challenge this at the Supreme Court level,” Paul said.
“I’m going to … Read the rest
France attacks Amazon ‘destroyer of bookshops’
France’s culture minister has branded online retailer Amazon a “destroyer” of bookshops in the latest confrontation between the Socialist government in Paris and America’s giants of the digital economy.
“Today, everyone has had enough of Amazon, which, by dumping, slashes … Read the rest