Sharpeville Day was a turning point: PAC

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Secretary-General of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, Apa Pooe, has described Sharpeville Day as a turning point in South Africa’s history. The PAC is commemorating the massacre that happened in 1960 when apartheid police shot and killed 69 protesters who were marching peacefully against discriminatory pass laws. President…

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Old battlegrounds show where voters’ hearts lie

Which is why the alleged attack on ANC supporters on their way to a rally in Nongoma in northern KwaZulu-Natal over the weekend does not sound, well, new.  Because now, as then, the politics around Nongoma (as around Isandlwana) are decided on the ground — and in the hills and valleys — as they have been for generations, not by…

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ANC warns MK party of more legal action

The ANC’s legal challenge has been a thorny issue for the MK party, just a few months before the 2024 national elections. Last week MK party interim youth leader Bonginkosi Khanyile said the party would do everything in its power to stop the elections if the MK party or Zuma’s face did not feature on…

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