Maliyakhe Shelembe, NFP Leader Zanele Magwaza and Nhlanhla Khubisa
July 29, 2016.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:
NFP back in Electoral Court
Malema says ANC Tshwane is insulting Mandela's legacy
And, MK veterans say De Klerk is still the father of the DA
The National Freedom Party will attempt for a second time today to persuade the Electoral Court that it should be allowed to participate in next week’s local government elections.
The party was disqualified from participating in the elections after it failed to pay the required fees to the Electoral Commission of South Africa by June 2 deadline.
The party claimed it was submitting new evidence that showed it should not be disqualified.
The appalling conditions in Hammanskraal, Tshwane, are an insult to former president Nelson Mandela’s legacy, EFF leader Julius Malema said yesterday.
Malema asked Thoko Didiza and the current Tshwane Mayor Sputla Ramokgopa if they thought Mandela went to prison for 27 years only for people to use pit toilets.
He said those living in Hammanskraal were worse off than people living in townships in Polokwane.
The MK Veterans Association in the Western Cape says the DA lied in the run up to the elections, adding that former president FW de Klerk still represented the "fatherhood" of the party.
Regional MKVA chair Fumanekile "Fatty" Booi spoke at the ANC's provincial offices in Cape Town yesterday.
He was there to announce the reburial of former MK soldier Norman "Billy Holiday" Pietersen, who was killed by apartheid police in the 1980s.
Booi, a veteran of 40 years said after 28 years, Billy's reburial came just in time when the country was faced by this debacle by liars who wanted to claim South Africa’s history, and distort it.
Also making headlines:
Ramaphosa said a slaughterhouse had been opened on political killings.
Malema says he doesn’t buy votes with T-shirts'.
And, Ramaphosa hit the campaign trail hard for the ANC in the Western Cape.
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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today