Teenage Girls May Know How to Prevent Pregnancy – That Doesn’t Mean They Have the Power to Do It
Teenage pregnancy makes visible the pressures, relationships and reproductive conditions that shape young people’s lives across southern Africa.
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Demolishing Lagos Informal Settlements Also Destroys the City’s Best Defences Against Climate Change
Residents whose homes cluster along waterways, canals and shorelines have built organised systems for living with climate change.
Africa’s Red Sea States Face Growing Risks as Houthi Rebels Expand Their Reach
The African shoreline is now much more valuable to outsiders who want to monitor, contain or outflank the waterway opposite them.
White Cross Monument: Every Cross an Irrefutable Testimony to the Reality of Farm Murders
The leader of the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus), Dr Corné Mulder, today attended a ceremony to plant 17 crosses for farm murder victims at the White Cross Monument on the Ysterberg in Limpopo where he formally handed over the crosses to be planted. Two of the crosses were replanted. The other 15 represent murders […]
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North West Mayoral Candidates
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) in North West today officially announced the party’s mayoral candidates for the upcoming local government elections in the province. The candidates were nominated after a comprehensive selection and election process. During this process, prospective candidates were, among other things, assessed based on their skills, qualifications, community involvement and experience […]
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Brown Is Beautiful: What Namibia’s Capital Windhoek Can Teach African Cities as They Get Hotter and Drier
New research shows how Windhoek’s ‘Brown is Beautiful’ approach could use its dry landscape to protect the city from heat, drought and floods.
Petition Concerning Gauteng’s Failure to Pay School Subsidies
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) supports the petition concerning Gauteng school subsidies that Solidarity and the Schools Support Centre (SOS) submitted to Parliament earlier today. The petition formally requests Parliament to investigate the Gauteng Department of Education’s failure to pay subsidies to schools and to make recommendations. According to the petition, the Gauteng Department […]
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Voters Should Follow the Electoral Court’s Example and Reject ANC’s Excuses for Incompetence
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) welcomes the Electoral Court’s decision to dismiss the ANC’s appeal to reopen the candidate registration process, and the party hopes that voters will follow suit and punish the ANC’s incompetence at the polls during the upcoming elections. This judgment sends a clear message that the ANC can no longer […]
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Rubio’s Message Is Clear: No More Delays in Addressing the USA’s Conditions
The contempt that President Cyril Ramaphosa and his administration have demonstrated in ignoring the conditions set by the United States (US) for normalising relations between the two countries for more than a year is now leading to serious and direct consequences. The new policy recently announced by the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, aimed […]
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Fifth Woman’s Remains Deepen Fear in Kempton Park
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) is deeply concerned about the series of female deaths in and around Kempton Park after yet another woman’s remains were recently discovered in Olifantsfontein. Over the last two months or so, five women, presumably murdered, were found in the same area near Kempton Park. All were partially or completely […]
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North West Premier Should Take Responsibility for Province’s Medicine Shortage
It is an absolute disgrace that North West residents have not had access to proper healthcare for years, owing to constant medicine shortages at hospitals and clinics across this ANC-governed province. The North West Department of Health is characterised by institutional decay, corruption and mismanagement, despite interventions by the national government. The department was under […]
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“It Is Our Time” Manifesto Launch Provides Direction Through Practical Solutions for Local Government
Local government can be restored and municipalities’ decline can be turned around. This is the gist of the message conveyed by the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) with its Manifesto Launch under the theme “It is Our Time”. (Manifesto attached) The Manifesto, which was unveiled at the Silver Lakes Farm Hotel in Pretoria East, marks […]
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Councillors and Officials Owe Matlosana More Than R25 Million
The personal outstanding municipal debt of councillors and officials of the ANC-led Matlosana Local Municipality currently amounts to more than R25 million. In April 2026, the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) sent a letter to the Speaker, Stella Mondlane-Ngwenya, insisting that the growing debt has to be collected. The Municipal Council then adopted a resolution […]
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DRC’s Ebola Outbreak Has the Potential to Become a Global Pandemic. How to Make Sure It Doesn’t
Drawing lessons from Sierra Leone and having watched the mid-2026 outbreak in the DRC, I conclude that it risks become a global epidemic.
Poor Service Delivery Undermines Mpumalanga’s Tourism Potential
While September is celebrated as Tourism Month and offers an opportunity to emphasise the important role of tourism in Mpumalanga, poor service delivery and dilapidated infrastructure are seriously undermining the province’s tourism potential. With the Kruger National Park, the Panorama Route and its location as a gateway to Eswatini and Mozambique, Mpumalanga possesses world-class tourism […]
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Farmers Do Not Wait, They Get to Work
Dr Corné Mulder, leader of the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus), commended the Springbokvlakte Sunflower Project, where farmers literally and figuratively put their hands to the plough for rural safety, as an excellent example of what can be achieved when farmers and communities stand together. Mulder, who is currently undertaking a nationwide tour in the […]
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DRC’s Ebola Epidemic Could Be the Worst in History: 4 Things That Could Help End It
The next phase of the response must not be about deploying more people into communities simply to deliver interventions.
Red Flag Over Amazon’s 100% Black-Ownership Criterion
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) will bring the fact that Amazon Web Services (AWS) requires companies wishing to participate in its South African Equity Equivalent Investment Programme (EEIP) to be 100% black-owned to the attention of the American (US) authorities. AWS itself has confirmed that the minimum requirement for participating in the Programme is […]
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Dipaleseng Records R58,2 Million as Fruitless and Wasteful Expenditure
During its recent special council meeting, the Dipaleseng Local Municipality (Balfour, Grootvlei and Greylingstad) recorded R58,2 million as fruitless and wasteful expenditure. This amount constitutes approximately 15% of the total budget and stems mainly from interest and penalties on unpaid bills from Eskom, the Auditor-General, the Department of Water and Sanitation and SARS. Fruitless and […]
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Niger’s Failed Coup Is a Warning to the Sahel’s Military Rulers: Those With Power Must Keep Their Promises
Military leaders in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger came to power promising to defeat the insurgencies plaguing their countries. Instead, insecurity has worsened.
Mayoral Candidates to Turn Gauteng Municipalities Around
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) today announced its mayoral candidates for Gauteng’s three metro councils, six local municipalities and two district municipalities – a formidable team ready to shoulder the responsibility and make local government work again. Gauteng residents have had enough of crumbling infrastructure, water and power outages, sewage spills, potholes, poor financial […]
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Conflicting Information on Mogale City Water Tankers
Contradictions in the Mogale City Local Municipality’s draft annual report for 2025/26 is hampering proper planning for water interruptions. In one instance, the report indicates that the Municipality possesses 13 dedicated water tankers, but in another instance, the number is 24. Upon enquiry, the Municipal Manager, Makhosana Msezana, explained that it was a typing error […]
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Mega Municipality Will Create Mega Service Delivery Problems
The ANC’s latest proposal to possibly merge Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni into one giant mega metropolis demonstrates that the party is still trying to solve the wrong problem. The people of Gauteng do not need bigger municipalities, but rather smaller, more efficient and more accountable local governments. If a resident already finds it difficult to […]
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Why Water Rights Aren’t Enough to Fix South Africa’s Deeply Unequal Farming Sector
Without finance, infrastructure and power, many Black South African farmers remain dependent on white commercial farmers.