While the EFF is known for its radical strike action, which often aims to disrupt day-to-day life, the humiliation depicted in its members’ recent behavior has pushed the party’s image to an all new low. Video footage of callous EFF members, partaking in protest action by way of throwing garbage out of bins, has made..
Reiger Park on the East Rand is “closed”. All access roads are barred with traditional burning tires, stones and wood stumps. The community forum declared that people were marginalized and that delivery and development projects had to be addressed. The government is called upon to fulfill their duty. Meanwhile, protesters in Kempton Park torched three..
“Even if you beat us up or shoot us, you can’t stop us,” protesters in Freedom Park sang as they marched to the office of the Department of Human Settlements in Eldorado Park, south Johannesburg, on Monday. They were protesting over “empty land promises by the office for human settlement”. “They promised to give us..
The South African Teachers Union (SAOU) filed a complaint of hate speech and racism at the Human Rights Commission (MRC) after a Facebook entry saying: “Please Zuma give us the guns to defend our democracy ‘one bullet, one Boerekind. “ According to the SAOU’s statement, the statement was made by one of the people who..
It is with shock that the FF Plus learnt that some of the farmers that participated in the Black Monday protest action were served with a summons and we are taking up the matter with the Minister and Commissioner of Police, says Dr Pieter Groenewald, leader of the FF Plus. One of the farmers is..
They don’t care about people’s lives,” said Ken Ford, owner and manager of Sunshine Hospital in Actonville, regarding the protests which erupted in Benoni on Monday (June 26). Service delivery protests raged across Benoni on Monday (June 26). According to Ford, doctors were attacked and intimidated while attempting to get to the hospital. Ford stated..
The education of thousands of Mpumalanga schoolchildren has ground to a near halt and exams have been postponed because of a teachers’ go-slow. For the past three weeks, teachers in the province have been coming to work for only two hours a day. Schools open at 8am and close at 10am. The protest is over..