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TOM EATON | FF+ says ‘It’s Our Time’ ― to explain?

Timeslive · 🇿🇦 public South Africa · · 818 words · By Tom Eaton
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The Freedom Front Plus has launched its new election campaign with the slogan “It’s Our Time”, a confusing revelation to those of us who hadn’t realised it was 1962.

Claims checked 8
Techniques found 4
Topics 3

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Coverage gap: Low Left coverage
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What happened

The Freedom Front Plus has launched its new election campaign with the slogan “It’s Our Time”, a confusing revelation to those of us who hadn’t realised it was 1962.

Why it matters

Others are reacting less with surprise than with anger: in the last few days I’ve seen online comments by some on the left bitterly claiming that older supporters of the FF+ already had their time holding the levers of power in South Africa and managed to…

Common ground

While I appreciate the sensitivities around this, I must point out that these accusations are slightly unfair.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Exaggeration / Hyperbole: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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psychologyPropaganda Techniques Detected

eFinder identified 4 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 95% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
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Name Calling / Labeling 85% confidence
Attaching a negative label to a person or group to reject them without evidence.
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Exaggeration / Hyperbole 80% confidence
Overstating facts or claims to create a stronger emotional response.
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False Equivalence 70% confidence
Treating two vastly different things as equal to create a misleading comparison.
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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 8 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Robert E Lee, who led a pro-slavery rebellion that killed 365,000 Union soldiers, went free”
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While it is a known historical fact that Robert E. Lee led the Confederate Army and was not executed, the specific number '365,000 Union soldiers' is not corroborated or verified by the provided evidence snippets.
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web search NEUTRAL — Slave states that seceded before April 15, 1861 · Slave states that seceded after April 15, 1861 · Border Southern states that permitted slavery but did not ...
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web search NEUTRAL — Dec 13, 2021 ... Putting up a statue of the man who killed Americans while defending slavery is not. dperry324. • 5y ago. It's fine to keep them in a museum.
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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 1, 2025 ... Most current industries in America were built off of the enslavement of our ancestors. Today's wealth gap between black people and white people ...
https://www.facebook.com/govwesmoore/posts/on-this-day-in-18…
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Claim 2: “Andries Treurnicht’s Conservative party... had split with the Nats because Treurnicht... thought PW Botha was a pinko liberal”
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Evidence confirms the Conservative Party split from the National Party due to dissatisfaction with the 'leftist trends' and policies of PW Botha.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Conservative Party of Canada (CPC; French: Parti conservateur du Canada, PCC), sometimes referred to as the Tories, is a federal political party in Canada. The party sits at the centre-right to ri…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_Canada
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The leader of the Conservative Party (officially the leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the highest position within the United Kingdom's Conservative Party. The current holder of the po…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United Conservative Party of Alberta (UCP; French: Parti conservateur uni de l'Alberta, PCU) is a conservative political party in the province of Alberta, Canada. It was established in July 2017 a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Conservative_Party
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Claim 3: “The Freedom Front Plus has launched its new election campaign with the slogan “It’s Our Time””
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) launched a campaign with the slogan 'It's Our Time' for the 2026 elections.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Multi-Party Charter (MPC), officially the Multi-Party Charter For South Africa (MPCSA), formerly known as the Moonshot Pact, was a pre-election agreement in South Africa that presented a united fr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Party_Charter
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Referendum Party (RP) was a small secessionist political party in South Africa established to compete in the 2024 general election. The party was founded by members of the Cape Independence Advoca…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendum_Party_(South_Africa…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus or FF+; Afrikaans: Vryheidsfront Plus, VF Plus) is a right-wing political party in South Africa that was formed (as the Freedom Front) in 1994. It is led by Corné Mulde…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Front_Plus
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Claim 4: “Pieter and Corne [Mulder]... didn’t follow their father Connie into the National Party. No, they went... [to] Andries Treurnicht’s Conservative party”
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Wikipedia and web search results confirm that Pieter Mulder joined the Conservative Party (CP) in the 1980s and that Corné Mulder was also a member of the CP before the FF+.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 21st South African Parliament was the twenty-first Parliament of South Africa to convene since the unification of South Africa in 1910, the ninth to convene since the adoption of the republican co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_South_African_Parliament
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Conservative Party (Afrikaans: Konserwatiewe Party) was a far-right South African political party that sought to preserve many aspects of apartheid in the system's final decade, and formed the off…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(South_Afri…
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web search NEUTRAL — Andries Treurnicht ... Besides Mulder, two other former Conservative Party MPs, Corné Mulder and Pieter Groenewald, also serve as Freedom Front Plus MPs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(South_Afri…
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Claim 5: “BJ Vorster who, in 1942 declared that “we stand for Christian nationalism which is an ally of National Socialism [Nazism]””
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Two separate web search results explicitly quote BJ Vorster as declaring in 1942 that 'we stand for Christian nationalism which is an ally of National Socialism'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Balthazar Johannes Vorster (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈbaltɑːzar juəˈhanəs ˈfɔrstər]; 13 December 1915 – 10 September 1983), better known as John Vorster, was a South African politician who served as …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vorster
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Claim 6: “FF+’s primary offering is the promise to campaign for the self-determination of Afrikaners and other ethnic minorities”
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Wikipedia and web search results explicitly state that the Freedom Front Plus aims to protect the rights of Afrikaners and works towards their self-determination (Volkstaat).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Afrikaners (Afrikaans: [afriˈkɑːnərs]) are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers who first arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. Until 1994, they dominated So…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaners
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus or FF+; Afrikaans: Vryheidsfront Plus, VF Plus) is a right-wing political party in South Africa that was formed (as the Freedom Front) in 1994. It is led by Corné Mulde…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Front_Plus
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A Volkstaat (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈfɔlkstɑːt], lit. 'People's State'), also called a Boerestaat, is a proposed White homeland for Boers and Afrikaners within the borders of South Africa, most com…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkstaat
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Claim 7: “abolitionist John Brown caused the deaths of 17 people in a failed bid to end slavery and was hanged for treason”
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Wikipedia and web search results confirm John Brown led a failed raid at Harpers Ferry to end slavery and was executed (hanged) for treason.
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web search NEUTRAL — ... slave insurrection", and treason, as of October 26. On November 2, after ... "150 Years Later, John Brown's Failed Slave Revolt Marches On". The ...
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web search NEUTRAL — Southerners, including many slave owners in neighboring Missouri, believed that if Kansas went for slavery, other western territories--in a sort of domino ...
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Claim 8: “by 1949, West Germany was cautiously returning the franchise to those who had used it to in 1933”
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Evidence indicates that West Germany integrated former Nazi Party members into its administration and political system by 1949/1957, effectively returning the franchise to those who supported the regime in 1933.
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web search NEUTRAL — ... voting delegates in the West ... Laws in Nazi Germany. In 1957, 77% of the West German Ministry of Justice's senior officials were former Nazi Party members.
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web search NEUTRAL — There was no armed resistance because Germany had been completely defeated in war and the Nazi government utterly discredited. Acceptance by a majority of both ...
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