ANC national chairwoman Baleka Mbete believes there is an internal plot to unseat President Jacob Zuma before he completes his second term. Speaking at the ANC Limpopo provincial general council in Polokwane on Sunday night, Mbete said Zuma’s detractors who failed to oust him as party leader in Mangaung in 2012 had regrouped to plot
Read more: ANC national chairwoman warns of plot to unseat Zuma
Pope Francis described the massacre of as many as 1.5 million Armenians as “the first genocide of the 20th century” at a 100th anniversary Mass on Sunday, prompting Turkey to summon the Holy See’s ambassador in Ankara in protest. Muslim Turkey accepts that many Christian Armenians died in clashes with Ottoman soldiers beginning in 1915,
Read more: Pope calls Armenian genocide first of 20th century
Granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, Ela Gandhi, has called on South Africans to stand up against the wave of ill-discipline that, she says, is leading the country into chaos. The statue of her grandfather in central Johannesburg was smeared with paint over the weekend. Ela Gandhi has also condemned a range of recent actions in South
Read more: Gandhi’s granddaughter condemns xenophobic vigilantes
Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Premier Senzo Mchunu are to meet diplomats from African States in Durban Tuesday morning to discuss the wave of attacks on foreign nationals in the province. King Goodwill Zwelithini met with the security cluster ministers in Durban Monday night to discuss the situation and the state of
Read more: Somalia, Malawi concerned about attacks on nationals
The University of the Free State(UFS) launched a No-to-Racism/Yes-to-Equality Campaign in March 2015 and yesterday students and staff from the main campus came together to publicly pledge their support and commitment to equality and the eradication of racism at UFS. Deputy director of the Institute of Reconciliation and Social Justice JC van der Merwe says
Read more: Free State University launches racial equality campaign
The writer Günter Grass, who broke the silences of the past for a generation of Germans, has died in hospital in Lübeck at the age of 87. German president Joachim Gauck led the tributes, offering his condolences to the writer’s widow Ute Grass. “Günter Grass moved, enthralled, and made the people of our country think
Rumors are swirling the man who liberated Kiev from the Germans may not be allowed to rest there any longer
Rumors are swirling the man who liberated Kiev from the Germans may not be allowed to rest there any longer
The German parliament threw out an opposition motion calling on the government to acknowledge that a massacre committed by German troops in what is now Namibia more than 100 years ago was genocide in 2012. The massacre was the subject of a documentary film shown on the SABC on Sunday. An order, issued by General
Read more: Documentary on Herero massacre by Germany on SABC
Three months after appointing an openly gay diplomat as France’s ambassador to the Vatican, Paris is still waiting for the green light from Rome. While the Vatican usually declares it has accepted a candidate around a month after an appointment is made, it makes no public statements at all if the answer is no. Paris
When Jared Milrad and Nate Johnson participated in a video about “big changes,” they had no idea their same-sex wedding plans would feature in Sunday’s campaign launch by Hillary Clinton. Friends called to say they saw the pair walking hand in hand in what quickly became one of the most widely viewed political clips of
Read more: Gay couple overjoyed to feature in Clinton launch video
Hillary Rodham Clinton is running for president, leaning on a message of middle-class rescue and claims that America’s economy is ‘still stacked in favor of those at the top,’ according to a campaign video that went online Sunday afternoon. The campaign’s official announcement to reporters, perhaps finished in haste, included an embarrassing mistake in the
Read more: Typo? Hillary fought children and families all her career
A group of EFF members staged a land grab on prime real estate in Ballito on Sunday. The seaside town, north of Durban, is home to some of the most opulent developments in KwaZulu-Natal. A well-placed police source with knowledge of the incident, who could not be named as he is not authorised to speak
The African National Congress does not have the same attitude towards whites as Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF, secretary general Gwede Mantashe says. “When it comes to our attitudes we theorise colonialisation differently to Zanu-PF,” Mantashe told New24. “That is why the ANC government will not use this approach of if a white man owns
Read more: ANC has different approach to colonialism, says Mantashe
A church was set alight during a violent protest in Kalkfontein near Kuils River on Sunday evening, Western Cape police said. “It’s confirmed that the church has been set alight. Apparently it appears it was set alight by protestors,” said police spokesperson Colonel Thembinkosi Kinana. “As I understand it, it’s a continuation of the land
