Learning an African language is essential to breaking down barriers, writes <b>Russell H Kaschula</b>.
The ANC Youth League leader defends song with solo rendition — but admits he’s no Brenda Fassie. <b>Ilham Rawoot</b> weighs in.
Julius Malema has finally taken the stand in the hate speech case brought against him by AfriForum, leaving South Africans glued to their TV screens.
ANCYL president Julius Malema said on Wednesday that AfriForum brought a hate speech case against him only because it wanted the "limelight".
ANCYL president Julius Malema denied being a racist when he took the stand on a hate speech charge at the Equality Court in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
The ANC is not protecting its youth league president Julius Malema, secretary general Gwede Mantashe told the Equality Court on Tuesday.
The intention of a struggle song containing the lyrics "shoot the boer" was to inspire and mobilise people, the ANC’s Gwede Mantashe told a court.
The ANCYL put up a big screen outside court on Tuesday to allow supporters to watch coverage of the hate speech trial of Julius Malema.
Several ANC bigwigs were in the Equality Court on Monday to help defend youth league leader Julius Malema from a charge of hate speech.
The court in which Julius Malema is facing a hate speech trial is "illiterate" and will be schooled by Gwede Mantashe, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said.
Julius Malema’s mimicking of a gun whilst singing "Kill the boer" only bears reference to the armed struggle, a senior ANC official said on Monday.
The hate speech case against ANC Youth League president Julius Malema entered its second week in the Equality Court on Monday.
South Africa should begin a national dialogue about the song lyrics <i>dubul’ ibhunu</i>, or "Kill the boer", a senior ANC figure said on Friday.
A witness in the hate speech case against ANCYL president Julius Malema "was too afraid to testify", the Equality Court heard on Friday.
SA is perceived as a weak and failing state, a court heard on Thursday during ANCYL leader Julius Malema’s hate speech trial.
Lobbying behind the scenes for Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi to take up a top position in the ANC is gaining momentum.
The hate speech case against Julius Malema is a test for the revolution, he said, but the Equality Court judges were "our judges, like it or not".
The idea of "kill the boer" threatens Afrikaners’ symbolic connection to SA, the leader of a federation of Afrikaans groups told the Equality Court.
Julius Malema told supporters he would win his hate speech case, after a music expert said the <em>Shoot the Boer</em> "chant" could incite violence.
<em>Ayesaba Amagwala</em>, which contains the lyrics "shoot the boer", is not a song but a chant, a music expert has told the Equality Court.
Julius Malema said it was not him on trial for hate speech, but the "revolution", as a music expert retold the history of struggle songs to the court.
The ANCYL has buried the hatchet with social media tool Twitter and embraced technology to further the aims of the revolution.
Just what were the rifle-toting men in black and red protecting Juju from? We ponder the threats the ANCYL leader may have faced at his trial.
Judge Collin Lamont paused ANCYL president Julius Malema’s hate speech case on Tuesday to order that anyone carrying guns remove them from the court.
AfriForum leaders say Julius Malema told them during a 2010 meeting they would share the fate of IFP members killed outside ANC headquarters in 1994.
The ANC and youth league leader Julius Malema want Afriforum to explain who the victims are in the ‘Shoot the boer’ hate speech case against Malema.
ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema on Friday questioned South Africa’s participation in the Brics economic grouping.
Chaos erupted in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, on Wednesday – disrupting the Solomon Mahlangu Memorial Lecture being delivered by Julius Malema
The press ombudsman has denied an ANC Youth League request for a probe into two newspapers’ use of incorrect quotes attributed to Julius Malema.
It’s time we faced the fact. The default position for most SA politicians is "scumbag", and their automatic level of discourse is "childish".
ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema has likened opposition leader Helen Zille to a monkey, reports said on Monday.
The ANC Youth League on Friday welcomed a front-page apology by the <em>Daily Sun</em> newspaper for misquoting its leader Julius Malema.