South Africa: 100 years after the founding of the ANC, dissenters take to...
The 8th of January 1912 saw the founding of the ANC, by key South African intellectuals, including author Sol Plaatje, poet John Dube, and editors Pixley ka Isaka Seme and John Langalibalele, in a...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s president Zuma drops libel case over “rape” cartoon
South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma dropped his defamation lawsuit against the country’s most prominent newspaper cartoonist, Zapiro, over the weekend [28 October]. The suit centred on a 2008 cartoon...
View ArticleCalls for insult laws to protect South African President Zuma from criticism
The South African Communist Party (SACP) this week made a public call for a law to be instituted to protect the country’s president against “insults”. The call, by one of its provincial branches, was...
View ArticleAfter court appeal ANC decides to allow Zuma no confidence vote — but in...
South Africa’s highest court, the Constitutional Court, last week agreed to hear an application about a motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma. A High Court judge’s findings suggested that...
View ArticleSouth African parliament passes ‘secrecy bill’
South Africa’s parliament yesterday approved a controversial bill aimed at protecting state secrets. Dubbed the “secrecy bill” by its critics, the Protection of State Information bill was passed by 189...
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