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/ 9 February 2009
The Pretoria High Court will on Wednesday hear an application by the FF+ to delay the Presidency from proclaiming the date of the national elections.
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/ 26 January 2009
Oopposition parties want the courts to change the electoral Act in a bid to give millions of expatriates the right to vote in upcoming elections.
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/ 19 January 2009
Free State ANC leader Ace Magashule should be disciplined for his latest comments comparing Jesus and ANC leader Jacob Zuma, the FF+ said on Monday.
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/ 23 October 2008
A black Pretoria resident hit a white resident with a chair during public consultations over name changes to city streets, the FF+ said on Thursday.
Two Freedom Front Plus councillors have claimed they were chased out of a City of Tshwane meeting after objecting to the changing of street names.
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/ 18 September 2008
The Freedom Front Plus (FF+) has called on President Thabo Mbeki to appoint an independent commission of inquiry into the arms deal.
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/ 11 September 2008
At total of 27 street names in Pretoria’s central business district will be changed to reflect a ”shared heritage”, the City of Tshwane said.
Poverty is colour blind, and black and white people need to work together to eradicate it, ANC treasurer general Mathews Phosa said on Friday.
The Freedom Front Plus (FF+) on Friday welcomed the possible phasing out of affirmative action.
The DA has questioned the accuracy of the latest crime statistics, saying decreases in certain categories could be due to under-reporting.
A bake sale where cake prices were determined by a person’s race was broken up by the University of Pretoria’s campus security on Friday. The Freedom Front Plus student organisation, VF+TAS, said it held the sale to illustrate the unfairness of affirmative action. The organisation asked white, Indian and coloured students to pay significantly more for cake than black students.
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/ 28 February 2008
Four young men in the Free State could hardly have known that their video of a demeaning mock initiation of black university employees would be flashed on the world’s TV screens.
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/ 20 February 2008
Classes were still suspended at three Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) campuses on Wednesday amid meetings to resolve matters, said a university spokesperson. The university suspended all lectures on all three campuses on Tuesday following ongoing violent protests over fee hikes and academic exclusion.
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/ 19 February 2008
Classes at all the Tshwane University of Technology’s campuses were suspended amid student protests on Tuesday, authorities said. ”The decision was taken due to the prevailing atmosphere on campus and the potential for violent clashes between striking and non-striking students,” vice-chancellor Errol Tyobeka said.
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/ 17 February 2008
A draft loyalty pledge has plunged South Africa into a new identity crisis as it mulls its common values 14 years after discarding apartheid to forge a united society under a single flag. As the motley rainbow nation quibbles over a government proposal to introduce a pledge of allegiance in schools, some ideological battle lines are being redrawn.
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/ 10 September 2007
The present vice-chairperson of the University of Pretoria’s student representative council (SRC), Cobus van der Linde, will not be a candidate in Tuesday’s elections for next year’s SRC. Pretoria High Court judge Lettie Malopa on Monday dismissed Van der Linde’s urgent application to remain on the candidates list.