A Cape Town drinking establishment has been called out for a racist incident after a video has gone viral on social media. In the clip, Christopher Logan who is a friend of Thabiso Danca, the victim, is confronting the owner, after Danca was denied entry. Danca claims the bouncer said according to Hank’s Old Irish Pub’s right of admission policy, he needed to be accompanied by a white person. The […]
LOCAL The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has described as horrific and deplorable, utterances made by a Benoni woman about black people, calling them rapists and thieves and that they should be banned and killed. Belinda Magor, whose voice note went viral on social media, made the comments while supposedly defending pitbulls. It comes amid escalating calls for the dog breed to be banned as domestic animals following a […]
INTERNATIONAL A French cartoon has caused outrage on social media for its "racist and Islamophobic" portrayal of the Qatar national football team ahead of the World Cup set to kick off in Doha later this month. Published last month by the French newspaper Le Canard enchaîné, the caricature uses stereotypical depictions of Arab men as long-bearded, angry, masked and carrying all kinds of weapons from machetes and guns to rocket launchers. A player with the famous number […]
LOCAL Trade union Solidarity says it is keeping a close eye on Dis-Chem after the company allegedly retracted a controversial letter sent to senior management, alerting it about a moratorium on the appointment of whites. Solidarity CEO Dirk Hermann shared on Twitter a letter reportedly sent by Dis-Chem CEO Ivan Saltzman. It is dated September 19 and was addressed to all senior management. In the letter, Saltzman told managers that […]
LOCAL The Stellenbosch University Student Representative Council has called on students at the institution to allow the Office of Student Discipline to carry out its investigation into the conduct of one of their fellow students. This comes after Stellenbosch University, this week, suspended a student from its Helshoogte residence after he allegedly urinated on his roommate’s chair while intoxicated, and says it will consider further action, such as a full […]
A video of an elderly woman launching a racist tirade after her dog was allegedly stolen has gone viral on social media. In the video, shared by journalist Sihle Mavuso this week, the unidentified woman tells police officers at her home that a black person stole her dog. “I hate black, barbaric, people that hurt people. How can you love people if they do that?” In the background, an officer can […]
The newly conferred Stellenbosch University Chancellor, Justice Edwin Cameron, says the university community deserves an institution that is free of discrimination. He was speaking during his official inauguration as a Chancellor in Stellenbosch on Tuesday night after being elected in 2019. Cameron takes up the position amidst a racial uproar after charges were laid against a white student for allegedly urinating on the belongings of a black student. Stellenbosch University says it […]
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Parliament says it will be lodging a formal complaint with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) against the African National Congress (ANC) and Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), for what it calls a race baiting by the two political parties. The move follows the infamous video, which has been circulating on social media showing how an eNCA senior journalist Lindsay Dentlinger had conducted herself when […]
Convicted racist Vicki Momberg has not yet filed an answering affidavit in the contempt of court application launched by the Human Rights Commission for not complying with an Equality Court order. Friday was the deadline for Momberg to file an affidavit stating reasons why she is opposing the application. Momberg has failed to comply with an order made by the Equality Court in June last year‚ instructing her to pay […]
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.
