An eleventh-hour settlement has been reached between AfriForum, the ANC and Julius Malema over the heated "shoot the boer" debacle.
The ANC has issued a warning to the judiciary as it takes the Goodman Gallery and City Press to court over Brett Murray’s controversial artwork.
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has lost an application for leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court against a hate speech ruling.
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/ 20 September 2011
Congress of South African Trade Union’s president S’dumo Dlamini has defied the ban on the liberation struggle song <i>Dubul’ ibhunu</i>.
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/ 16 September 2011
It’s a tough life in the rainbow nation, a land where every topic has too many hues and cries, says <b>Chris Roper</b>.
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/ 16 September 2011
The Equality Court’s banning of the "Shoot the Boer" song is a reminder of South Africa’s long and prickly history.
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/ 16 September 2011
The judgment against Julius Malema coincided with the 34th anniversary of the death of one of Africa’s most celebrated intellectuals.
The court ruling banning the singing of <i>Shoot the Boer</i> constituted an "absurd and drastic" infringement on freedom of speech.
AfriForum has vowed to fight any court attempts to overturn the ban on "Shoot the Boer", after the ANCYL accused the group of having "too much power".
In vowing to overturn the ‘Shoot the boer’ hate speech ruling, Malema has slammed the ‘untransformed’ judiciary, accusing courts of double standards.
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/ 13 September 2011
The ANC will appeal the decision to ban the singing of <em>Dubhula I’bunu</em> or "shoot the boer" in a ruling slammed by advocates of free speech.
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/ 12 September 2011
A South African court on Monday ruled that ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema was guilty of hate speech for singing an apartheid-era song.
ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema’s singing of the words "shoot the boer" constituted hate speech, Judge Collin Lamont ruled on Monday.
Judgment in ANC Youth League president Julius Malema’s "shoot the boer" hate speech case began without him on Monday.
It was unacceptable to sing the words "shoot the boer", former president FW de Klerk was quoted as saying in a media report on Thursday.
AfriForum has received an email from Julius Malema’s lawyers about the possibility of reaching an out of court settlement over his hate speech trial.
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/ 14 February 2011
Steve Hofmeyr dumped R5 000 worth of U2 concert tickets in the Jukskei river, because of Bono’s take on "shoot the boer", he tweeted on Sunday.
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/ 15 December 2010
What do the following have in common: A cartoon about rape, a song about killing boers, and a photo mash-up of teachers and gay bodybuilders.
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/ 29 November 2010
Judge Leon Halgryn defended his order banning the words "shoot the boer" in the high court in Johannesburg on Monday.
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/ 29 November 2010
AfriForum wants to intervene in the ANC’s application for leave to appeal the ban of the words "shoot the boer" in a freedom song.
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/ 1 November 2010
The "shoot the boer" hate speech complaint against ANC Youth League president Julius Malema gets transferred to to the South Gauteng High Court.
AfriForum may decide to withdraw the "shoot the boer" hate speech complaint against the ANC but not against the ANC Youth League.
Julius Malema has been ordered to apologise to President Jacob Zuma and attend anger management classes following his disciplinary hearing on Tuesday.
Jacob Zuma has lashed out at the conduct of Julius Malema, saying that the statements he made
were alien to the culture of the ruling party.
The high court bid to ban the words "shoot the boer" was a farce, the African National Congress said on Tuesday.
Cosatu on Monday opposed the banning of the words "shoot the boer", saying they were part of the historic fight against apartheid.
The Independent Democrats (ID) appealed to the ANC on Sunday to drop their challenge to a court finding over the words "shoot the boer".
A high-court ban on the words "shoot the boer" has been met with mixed reaction and the African National Congress said it would challenge the ruling.