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disenfranchised members of a branch in good standing’, an action that was also ‘inconsistent’ with South Africa’s Constitution.^ ...
Magashule and his fellow respondents sought to convince the court that not a single ‘branch delegate not authorised to do so att ...
By that June, there were 121 074 members, which means the party somehow recruited almost 45 000 new Free State members in just ...
address the conference, seemingly chose to side with the Magashule bloc with regards to the Regime Changers’ successful Constitu ...
12 Fourth estate capture State capture is most efficiently curtailed by a free and independent media. The ideal environment for ...
these services. ‘The current process of [placing] advertisement[s] in the media is time consuming and makes it impossible for de ...
Letlaka Communications, was appointed as the exclusive printer and distributor of provincial newsletters in August 2010.^5 Letla ...
Magashule’s office took no such action. Instead, the premier claimed ignorance of the Treasury report. ‘The Premier is not aware ...
links to Magashule’s son, Tshepiso. Mpembe and Tshepiso were co- directors of BMMW Liquor Trading and Projects, as well as of a ...
Here is perhaps the most shocking example of the paper’s questionable reportage. In March 2011 , the Sowetan broke the story abo ...
also adamant that the alleged fracas at the branch meeting did happen. Most troublingly, Maleka claimed that he had not spoken t ...
employed by the Regime Change in its endeavour to dislodge the current leadership from the state and party hegemony.^24 Furtherm ...
Sometimes the propaganda carried by The Weekly was laughably obvious. In November 2011 , the paper published a letter from Steve ...
imploring, ‘Mr Premier, please live long, for the benefit of our people.’^29 At the time, Makhele, a regular columnist for The W ...
campaign’ aimed at discrediting and embarrassing Magashule, his administration and some of the black-owned businesses with which ...
and businesspeople who were allegedly close to Magashule, including Ntsele’s contentious website contract. Peta’s paper also inv ...
It was not long before such sentiments gained traction within the ANC’s formal structures. In March 2012 , The Weekly reported t ...
is simply unethical for bureaucrats to punish newspapers for criticising government.’ From the outset, Peta was less than optimi ...
snub from the private and public sectors soon pushed the newspaper towards the brink of bankruptcy. Peta had started the Free St ...
2015. Volksblad was apparently also subjected to an advertising boycott of sorts by Magashule’s administration. Gert Coetzee, th ...
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