22 July 2024 – John Hlophe, the uMkhonto weSizwe Party’s parliamentary leader, said state ownership of land in South Africa would be no different from England, where “all land belongs to the queen”. He’s wrong, and not just about the late queen.
18 July 2024 – Social media users have reacted angrily to an X post that suggests Alan Winde, the Democratic Alliance premier of the Western Cape, is a “new world order globalist”. But the post is just a clumsy parody.
15 July 2024 – Some 500,000 noncitizen spouses and 50,000 noncitizen children are likely to benefit from the scheme, not 1 million. And they may only apply for permanent residence, not citizenship.
5 July 2024 – Nomsa Masuku, one of South Africa’s four electoral commissioners, was arrested for fraud allegedly committed while she headed a charity a decade ago. The arrest, just weeks after the elections, had nothing to do with false claims of vote fraud.
3 July 2024 – A Wikipedia edit changed Leon Schreiber’s nationality just 12 minutes after president Cyril Ramaphosa’s unity cabinet appointments were due to be announced. For the previous four years, the page had correctly put the new Home Affairs minister’s birthplace in South Africa.
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