The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has appealed for calm during Friday’s planned protest by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) outside Brackenfell High School in Cape Town. The Commission will also be monitoring events. The SAHRC says the right to protest cannot be exercised in a manner that infringes on other human rights in the Constitution’s Bill of Rights. The City of Cape Town has granted the party a […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa has called Monday's violence in Brackenfell "deeply regrettable", calling on all parties to have restraint. The ANC in the Western Cape called for an investigation into the clashes between a group of Brackenfell residents and EFF members, some who are said to be parents of learners at Brackenfell High School. The school faces controversy over a private matric event, only attended by white learners. The school principal […]
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has expressed shock over the alleged violence meted out to its members by parents of Brackenfell High School in the Western Cape. In a statement the party claims that they received complaints from parents of alleged racist practices at the school, which they say has not had a teacher of colour since 1994. Earlier on Monday, EFF members and parents clashed over a private matric […]
One set of human remains, and perhaps a second, have been found in a Tulsa cemetery where investigators are searching for victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Oklahoma State Archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck said on Tuesday. “We do have one confirmed individual and the possibility of a second” body found, Stackelbeck said. “We are still in the process of analysing those remains to the best of our ability … We […]
Health and beauty retailer Clicks and Unilever, which owns the TRESemmé hair products brand, are set to meet EFF leader Julius Malema on Thursday, the party said in a statement. Both companies had separately requested meetings with the EFF on Wednesday after the party had written strongly-worded letters to them, demanding to meet them or face the consequences. In its letter to Unilever, the EFF said: “Should we not receive […]
A United States professor who gained international attention after publishing a blog post in which she admitted to lying for years about being a Black person has resigned from the George Washington University, the school said. Dr Jessica Krug, "has resigned her position, effective immediately. Her classes for this semester will be taught by other faculty members, and students in those courses will receive additional information this week", GWU said […]
Heated debates around racism continue online following a Clicks advertisement labelled as racist, as EFF protests resulted in store closures nationwide on Wednesday. The South African Human Rights Commission says it will be engaging with Clicks management to understand why the so-called racist Tresemme hair product advertisement was given the go-ahead. The ad made a comparison between the hair of black women being called ‘dull and dry’ while a white […]
The Economic Freedom Fighters have issued a list of demands to Clicks following the uproar against an online advertisement which has been flagged by South Africans as racist. The advert used images of black women’s hair with the labels ‘dry and damaged’ while the image of the hair of white women was labelled as ‘normal’. This sparked intense social media backlash and Clicks removed the images and issued an apology. […]
George Floyd is now the cornerstone of a movement that is going to change the whole wide world, veteran civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton told mourners at the funeral in Houston on Tuesday. Anti-racism protesters over the death of Floyd will take to the streets across the United States again on Wednesday. Hundreds of protesters in the West coast city of Seattle filled City Hall into early Wednesday calling […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
