Apartheid

DA MP Werner Horn will lead the party's investigation into federal chairperson Helen Zille’s controversial apartheid tweets. Zille is in hot water after she tweeted that there were more racist laws in the country now than there were during apartheid.DA Western Cape leader Bonginkosi Madikizela said he supported the FLC’s investigation.Chairperson of the DA's federal legal commission…

Former prime minister Olof Palme. Swedish authorities have cleared the South African apartheid regime of any links to the 1986 assassination of prime minister Olof Palme.The prosecuting authority said on Tuesday it believed Stig Engström killed Palme over his left-wing values.Investigators in the matter tested the bullets used to kill Palme against 788 weapons but…

denied it leave to appeal last year. The Nelson Mandela Foundation and the SA Human Rights Commission had taken the case to court, asking that the gratuitous display of the flag be stopped.Handing down judgment in August last year, Mojapelo said the display of the old flag gratuitously demeaned and dehumanised based on race.He added the display also…