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Gigaba has maintained that he did not perjure himself when he denied approving the operations of Fireblade Aviation at OR Tambo International Airport.
BLACK FIRST LAND FIRST

Parliament to get update on Fireblade saga

It will be the first time the Department of Home Affairs has briefed Parliament on this matter since Malusi Gigaba resigned in November last year

  • Khulekani Magubane
2 min read
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. (Reuters)
ABSA

Public Protector’s ABSA bailout report set aside

Mkhwebane personally on the hook to pay some of the Reserve Bank’s costs

  • Yolandi Groenewald
2 min read
Russian journalist Babchenko smokes a cigarette during an interview in Kiev.
ABSA

ABSA granted interim order against BLF following ‘customer assault’

The interim order was granted in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg late on Thursday afternoon.

  • Kaveel Singh
1 min read
Black First Land First has been vocal in its defence against the suggestion that the state is captured by the Guptas.
BLACK FIRST LAND FIRST MOVEMENT

Editors’ forum asks court to interdict Black First Land First

The South African National Editors’ Forum filed an urgent application to prevent the group from intimidating and threatening 11 journalists.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
The courts have continued to order, legally, mass evictions, in effect undermining the validity of ‘land expropriation without compensation’ and ultimately disconnecting the land reform programme from the housing crisis. (David Harrison/M&G)
ANDILE MNGXITAMA

Land restitution just the beginning for BLF movement

The Black Agenda, the BLF’s policy document, is a list of systems and structures that need to be abolished in South Africa, writes Andile Mngxitama.

  • Comment Author
7 min read
‘Politicians will continue cashing in on the desperation of the victims of the impersonal forces of neoliberalism and the markets.’
BLACK FIRST LAND FIRST MOVEMENT

Politicians and pastors preach a false gospel

Pastors and politicians will continue to feed off the desperation of the poor, until their material and spiritual needs are met, and oppression ends.

  • Comment Author
8 min read