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Faith, anger meets Boeremag sentence

Article Phillip De Wet - 30 Oct 2013

In one South Africa, treasonous murderers have received their just sentences. In another, heroic warriors have been jailed without cause.

Get your facts straight, Steve, and help to build a better society

Analysis Staff Reporter - 17 Oct 2013

Even a hugely popular right-wing rock star sometimes needs an agony uncle - especially when his "army" fails to live up to his expectations.

M&G Newsroom: The EFF lifts off

Article Staff Reporter - 14 Oct 2013

The EFF's launch, SA's major nuke programme, Red October and Rihanna are up on M&G Newsroom from 1pm to 2pm with Deshnee Subramany and Sarah Evans.

Red October unrepentant about race-genocide claims

Article Phillip De Wet - 11 Oct 2013

Though painted as a demonstration for minority rights, Red October's march to Pretoria's Union Buildings focused on black-on-white crime.

#RedOctober in nine Instagrams

Article Staff Reporter - 10 Oct 2013

The Red October march against black-on-white violence, led by Steve Hofmeyr and Sunette Bridges, took place in Pretoria. Here's what happened.

Red October march calls for end to black-on-white violence

Article Phillip De Wet - 10 Oct 2013

Posters of dead farmers and old South African flags were waved about at the Red October march on the Union Buildings to protest "white genocide".

The hunt for Red October’s point

Article Verashni Pillay - 10 Oct 2013

Why have a group of white people released red balloons into the sky? Most other white people are mystified, if Twitter is anything to go by.

Are whites really being killed ‘like flies’?

Article Nechama Brodie - 10 Oct 2013

Comments on SA's murder rate and the quality of life of white South Africans have been grossly exaggerated. Nechama Brodie tells us why.

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