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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African Human Rights Commission (HRC) on Thursday confirmed that it is investigating Democratic Alliance (DA) MP Renaldo Gouws after an old video clip of him resurfaced in which he can be heard saying: “Kill all the kaffirs,” a deeply divisive racial slur

©- - 21 june 2024 - 08:14:05 - thread (299 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A Pretoria judge has come under fire for highlighting the deep-seated racial divisions still prevalent in South Africa

©- - 23 april 2024 - 08:34:12 - thread (278 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Racism is “an evil infecting countries and societies around the world”, the UN chief has said in his message marking the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, but it impacts communities differently

©- - 21 march 2024 - 05:27:45 - thread (381 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African Communist Party (SACP) on Monday pledged to lay criminal charges against activist Nicole Barlow, who posted an inflammatory tweet about former party leader Chris Hani

©- - 27 june 2023 - 08:25:36 - thread (246 words)


Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The UN International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice in policing ended a 12-day visit to the United States on Friday, calling on Washington to boost efforts to promote accountability for past and future violations

©- - 06 may 2023 - 06:36:06 - thread (521 words)


New York, US (PANA) - With xenophobia, prejudice, and hate speech on the rise, the UN community gathered in the General Assembly Hall on Wednesday to call for action to root out racism and discrimination across the world

©- - 22 march 2023 - 06:05:08 - thread (376 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Cyril Ramaphosa will Tuesday lead the national commemoration of Human Rights Day under the theme, “Consolidating and Sustaining Human Rights Culture into the Future

©- - 21 march 2023 - 06:39:46 - thread (325 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday condemned a Christmas Day racial incident at a popular resort, which has made headlines around the country

©- - 27 december 2022 - 11:33:19 - thread (188 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than two years since the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in the United States sparked the global Black Lives Matter movement, there’s been only “piecemeal progress” in addressing systemic racism, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Friday, in a new report

©- - 01 october 2022 - 05:33:34 - thread (597 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The High Commission of Nigeria has warned citizens living in South Africa to be vigilant and exercise caution following a surge in xenophobia which has been fuelled by the Operation Dudula movement

©- - 05 september 2022 - 12:31:12 - thread (338 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Tensions remain high at Stellenbosch University, near Cape Town, following a racist incident a week ago that has sent shockwaves across South Africa

©- - 23 may 2022 - 13:54:46 - thread (269 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Desmond Tutu Trust has condemned the “loathsome” desecration of a popular Tutu mural in downtown Cape Town after it was emblazoned with racist graffiti

©- - 28 september 2021 - 17:18:51 - thread (157 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN independent human rights experts on Monday denounced a government-backed report into racism in the United Kingdom, saying that it further distorted and falsified historic facts, and could even fuel racism and racial discrimination

©- - 19 april 2021 - 13:40:24 - thread (670 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Veteran South African political leader Helen Zille has once again been accused of racism over a social media post addressing the Black Lives Matter movement

©- - 13 april 2021 - 12:46:24 - thread (361 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Although the past year has seen the world battling the deadly impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the scourge of racism has also devastated many lives with tragic consequences, the UN refugee agency said on Sunday

©- - 21 march 2021 - 10:40:00 - thread (388 words)


Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights has strongly condemned racist aggression against Sub-Sahara African workers in Sousse region, 140 km southeast of Tunis, and called for sanctions against the perpetrators of the behaviour

©- - 20 september 2020 - 16:31:36 - thread (290 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has joined the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s condemnation of US President Donald Trump’s alleged racial slurs about Africa and its leaders

©- - 09 september 2020 - 15:55:50 - thread (316 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Football legend Mark Fish is on the ropes following a storm of criticism he received for wading into the Black Lives Matter campaign

©- - 27 july 2020 - 12:38:40 - thread (228 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A Johannesburg lawyer is being investigated by the Legal Practice Council (LPC) over an offensive tweet he sent following the death of Nelson Mandela’s daughter Zindzi Mandela

©- - 24 july 2020 - 12:45:39 - thread (331 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - A large group of leading African rugby coaches, former players and administrators have joined the Black Lives Matter movement

©- - 16 july 2020 - 09:38:25 - thread (287 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African government has issued directives to law enforcement agencies, including the Police Service, to activate their contingency plans in all provinces to ensure that a planned national truck shutdown is policed

©- - 08 july 2020 - 18:28:48 - thread (207 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, has launched an anti-racism campaign, dubbed “Black Friday”, in solidarity with millions of people around the world who are marching under the banner of “Black Lives Matter”, following the killing of George Floyd in the United States

©- - 07 june 2020 - 13:49:35 - thread (208 words)


Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Several hundreds of Tunisians and sub-Saharan Africans gathered on Saturday in front of the Tunis Municipal Theatre to denounce racism following the murder of George Floyd, an African-American who was strangled on May 25 by a white police officer in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the United States

©- - 07 june 2020 - 09:49:30 - thread (241 words)


Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Several youths from about 30 associations and non-governmental organizations in Tunisia gathered on Saturday in front of the municipal theatre on Bourguiba avenue in Tunis to denounce racism suffered for decades by African Americans, whose latest act was the death of George Floyd, killed by a white police officer during his arrest

©- - 06 june 2020 - 17:34:31 - thread (149 words)


Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - More than 30 Tunisian associations and NGOs Friday expressed their full solidarity with the millions of Americans who took to the streets about a week ago in different regions of the United-States against “the savage killing on 25 May in Minneapolis by a US police officer in the street of a US citizen, George Floyd”

©- - 05 june 2020 - 21:33:06 - thread (308 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Police are trying to trace a KwaZulu-Natal woman who took to social media and allegedly defamed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa by referring to him as "an ape trying to act like a First World president"

©- - 23 april 2020 - 15:58:16 - thread (251 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Adam Catzavelos, who sparked a national outcry when he filmed himself making racial comments in Europe, on Tuesday heard that he failed in his bid to have the matter dismissed

©- - 12 november 2019 - 12:15:40 - thread (230 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Department of Correctional Services of South Africa has confirmed that convicted racist Vicki Momberg has been on the run from the authorities since August after failing in her bid to appeal her sentence

©- - 06 november 2019 - 09:58:15 - thread (233 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African retail giant Woolworths on Friday issued an apology after “mistakingly” marketing a gym bag in the colours of the Apartheid-era flag

©- - 18 october 2019 - 09:22:47 - thread (412 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on Wednesday confirmed that it will institute legal proceedings against top rugby star Eben Etzebeth in the Equality Court on Friday

©- - 02 october 2019 - 12:32:28 - thread (138 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African City of Cape Town plans to forge ahead with plans to erect a statue of Mahatma Gandhi despite the fact that the majority of respondents to a poll don’t want it

©- - 27 september 2019 - 17:03:50 - thread (338 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on Tuesday ruled that recent comments attributed to firebrand political  leader, Julius Malema, amounted to hate speech

©- - 24 september 2019 - 18:30:46 - thread (253 words)