The forecast for the month ahead is a beast, as the petrol price is set for second consecutive major increase in April. They’ve got us by the gas pumps, here. Data released by the Central Energy Fund (CEF) this week suggests that the petrol price increase for April 2019 could hit South Africa with tremendous..
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Brace for impact, everybody – Petrol price set for a massive increase – Wonder if there is any truth in the saying, that every time the ANC-regime needs money, they raise the petrol price?
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Problems at Eskom hit rock bottom – rocks are being sold to Eskom as coal by fraudulent suppliers, poor quality coals the cause of six turbines seizing at power stations
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Load shedding has been an unwelcome visitor to South African homes this year as Eskom continues to fail in its responsibility to keep South Africa’s lights on. A recent discussion on SABC about load shedding highlighted the extent of the problems being faced at the power supplier. These include the poor quality of coal used…
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Forget power cuts. What’s happening to our water supply is much more serious. After two decades of little or no maintenance of municipal sewerage plants, SA is vulnerable to medieval, water-borne diseases and something even more serious: thirst.
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Villages, towns and even a capital city are experiencing severe water shortages, caused by a combination of years of bad management and drought. Many Limpopo villages have no water at all. Kimberley has its water switched off every night. The army is trying to stop millions of litres of sewage from going into the Vaal..
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Consultant turns away customer at SASSA office – Is it perhaps because the customer is white?
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Susan Strydom (66) was turned away on March 19 from Sassa in Springs by one of the consultants when she went there to apply for an old age grant. Strydom says she was asked where she was all along as she is only coming now to apply and also says the consultant told her to..
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President Ramaphosa says white land owners are no longer in a position to resist government’s land reform policies – ANC-regime to pick up the pace of land reform after election
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Ramaphosa was speaking at a government function to hand over title deeds to the Griqua and Khoi communities of Ebenhaeser on the West Coast. The president said it was time for white land owners to cooperate with his administration in changing land ownership patterns and to stop frustrating the process. He said the new administration..
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West Rand District Municipality that flout regulations by ploughing R77m into VBS can’t pay their 458 employees salaries this month
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The West Rand district municipality is one of 15 municipalities which made deposits with now-bankrupt VBS Bank despite an instruction from National Treasury forbidding them to do so. Municipal workers at the West Rand District municipality on the outskirts of Johannesburg were left in the lurch on Monday after not being paid their salaries. The..
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Pandemonium brakes loose at China Mall – Woman falls to her death in an attempt to escape violent protesters in Durban
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Chaos erupted in the area on Sunday night, when a mob of 100 people burnt and looted local tuckshops.
A man was shot dead and two others wounded after shop owners allegedly opened fire on the mob.
Violent action continued into Monday morning, when roads were blocked off and tyres were set alight.
According to Rescue Care’s Garrith Jamieson, on 25 March 2019, a female, believed to be about 45 years old, fell to her death when she plunged through the roof of a building at China Mall in Inanda Road, Durban. Jamieson said the female was allegedly trying to runaway from incensed protesters when the tragedy occurred.
She fell approx 3m to her death. Paramedics arrived to find her in a state of cardiac arrest. The patient sustained critical injuries and was declared deceased on scene.
It has not yet been established whether the woman was a shop owner or an employee.
Two men who were also trying to escape the mob on the roof also fell through and suffered s
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Armed gangs now target Health Care centres – Five armed men rob Durban kidney patients undergoing dialysis
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Staff and patients were held up at gunpoint at the Kidney Care Centre in Glenwood, Durban on Thursday.
Colonel Thembeka Mbele, a KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson, said the complainant alleged that on Thursday at 05:20, he was performing his duties as a hospital security guard at Umbilo area when five suspects alighted from a white Polo Vivo vehicle and Gold Toyota Yaris.
“At gunpoint the suspects proceeded to the hospital. They robbed the nursing staff and the patients of their jewellery, eight cellphones and a laptop before fleeing the crime scene in their getaway vehicle.
A case of robbery was opened at Umbilo police station for investigation.
Some of the patients were already receiving dialysis treatment when the men stormed in.
One of the robbers bit a nurses finger in an attempt to get her wedding ring removed.
A patient who had walked in while the robbery was in progress was forced to lay down on the floor.
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Eskom crisis as not just a crisis but a potential disaster – Eskom Price Hike To Cost SA 90,000 Mining Jobs – Unemployment rates to rise, all thanks to Eskom!
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Labor unions have threatened strikes over the job cuts at mining firms as well planned reductions at a numerous state-owned companies. JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s gold and platinum mines will shed around 90,000 jobs in the next three years as above-inflation electricity price increases by power utility Eskom add to already soaring operating costs, an..
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Bomb threat at Ernest & Young and Alexander Forbes offices caused a mass evacuation at their building in Sandton
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Employees at Ernest & Young and Alexander Forbes offices in Sandton had to evacuate their buildings after a security threat on Monday afternoon. Sandton Police spokesperson, Captain Granville Meyer said the bomb threat was made telephonically to Ernest & Young. Meyer said police had been deployed to the scene and sniffer dogs were sent to..
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Tito finds himself in a social storm after admitting that too many Africans were appointed to govern South Africa effectively
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Finance Minister, Tito Mboweni finds himself in a social storm after admitting in a radio interview that appointments in government departments are not representative. According to him, the country cannot be regarded as a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist community. According to observers, he said tacitly that too many Africans were appointed who could not do the..
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“Whites to blame for tropical cyclone Idai” which recently hit Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi says BLF – You sure it wasn’t Jan van Riebeeck, Andile?
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The party says the West should pay for the mess they apparently created. Cyclone Idai, a tropical cyclone which recently hit Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi is not a natural disaster, but a direct consequence of the white, Western system of ecological assault for profits, said Black First Land First on Friday. The BLF claimed in..
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Port Elizabeth’s New Sh*thole – SAPS Barracks at Mount Road reflects sad reflection of ANC-regime incapability to reign SA
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Rats the size of cats, thousands of cockroaches, maggots, broken toilets and urine being thrown out of the windows are among the disgusting findings at the police residential quarters in Port Elizabeth. Some of these squalid conditions at the Mount Road police station barracks were witnessed first-hand during a tour of the building on Tuesday…
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The Road Accident Fund disaster – Victims could be left destitute, despite the high fuel levy we pay for accident insurance
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Both the chairman and the chief executive officer of the Road Accident Fund (RAF) admitted in the latest annual report that the fund is insolvent, with liabilities exceeding assets by more than R206 billion at end March 2018. The annual report states that the fund “has been insolvent since 1981”. The total liabilities with regards..
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South-Africa under ANC leadership, there are no human rights!
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Accelerated socio economic transformation the key to human rights and better future for all. The ANC is in contempt of the South African Constitution’s prescriptions that guarantee human rights and, thus, voters must express their contempt for the ANC by rejecting the party on 8 of May, 2019, at the polls. There are numerous examples:..
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