March and March leader Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma and her husband Xolani Zuma say they face arrest days before the election, and three days after a News24 investigation found the couple has earned R12 million from the same government they campaign against. Police and prosecutors say there’s no case on record.
Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma's movement promised up to 1.5 million marchers on Sept. 30 and got a fraction of that. Since then, she's pitched it as a gender-based violence advocacy group, with mixed results.
Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma's movement wants undocumented foreigners deported by Sept. 30. Police, courts and migrant groups are bracing after tens of thousands left following the first deadline.
Six claims that drive much of South Africa's anti-migrant sentiment. The evidence complicates more than it confirms, and the courts have now weighed in.
A documented record of non-enforcement, from South Africa's Afrophobia crisis to Rwanda's proxy war in Congo to Cameroon's entrenched presidency, raises the question of whether a continental body built to hold leaders accountable can ever hold its own members accountable.
Ireti Bakare-Yusuf pressed South African officials on a minister's "drug dens" remark. They demanded respect, while their government's cruelty toward African immigrants, evictions, evacuations, vigilante violence, went unaddressed
Marches swept all nine provinces, a movement fractured in public view, a weekly protest declaration changed the shape of the campaign, and six African governments are still waiting for accountability.
On the same day Bafana Bafana suffered a humiliating defeat, the South African government issued two official statements; one cheering the team, the other defending the country's record on xenophobia. The two statements reveal a government managing two crises at once, and struggling with both.
Bafana Bafana's return to the World Cup ended in two red cards and a 2-0 defeat in the hands of co-hosts Mexico. On the team's own Facebook page, the rest of the continent showed up to celebrate Mexico.
Two movements have set a June 30 ultimatum demanding that undocumented African migrants leave South Africa. In reality, documented migrants are fleeing too. President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation on June 7 and still would not name either movement.
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