Employers who are unable to pay the minimum wage due to constraints in their businesses will be eligible for exemptions. President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the National Minimum Wage Bill, which is expected to benefit about 6-million workers that currently earn below R3,700 a month when it comes into effect on January 1 2019. Business..
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Cyril Ramaphosa signs National Minimum Wage Bill to uplift the country’s working poor who earn below R20 an hour – What about old age pension Mr President, can’t you increase that as well?
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Durban beach-front degeneration exposé – “Guess Carte Blanche’s camera footage is blowing it out of proportion then” is the typical response from ANC Mayor’s office!
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Durban – The city’s Golden Mile – stretching 6km along the beachfront from Blue Lagoon to uShaka – came under the spotlight this week in a Carte Blanche exposé showing how drug addicts and vagrants have hijacked some of the city’s most valuable sites.
With about 1million visitors expected to descend on the city this festive season, it is expecting to receive at least a R2.4billion cash injection over December and January.
However, the investigative journalism TV series reported that robberies, stabbings, drug dealings and pollution threaten to scare away visitors.
The programme’s recent feature showed how heroin needles and shards of broken glass from bottles smashed to make crack pipes can be found on the sandy shores, alleys between hotels and street corners meters away from the Golden Mile.
But the city says that it is making a concerted effort to ensure that beaches are properly maintained, and that it is speaking to NGOs about ways to deal with th
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Yet another farm attack occurred the last few days – Farmer attacked, tied up, house ransacked, Groblersdal
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A farm attack took place on 23 November 2018, at 23:00 in the Klein Waterfontein farming area in Groblersdal, Limpopo province. Four suspects with balaclavas, who were possibly armed with knives overpowered a man, who was alone when the attack happened. The man, a farmer had just returned from his late night farming responsibilities, was..
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Experts have sounded the alarm that the city of Johannesburg is on the brink of an unprecedented disaster with illegal miners blasting only metres away of highly flammable gas and fuel lines under the city
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Experts have sounded the alarm that illegal miners are blasting to within metres of highly flammable gas and fuel lines under Johannesburg. Despite warnings that the city is on the brink of an unprecedented disaster, the government has shrugged off desperate calls by city officials to step in and avert the potential catastrophe. Should one..
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South Africa is in shambles since ANC- regime is totally incompetent to work with money, spending more than R296 million of taxpayers money unnecessarily over the last five years
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The Auditor General found that government has wasted at least R296 million at national, provincial and local government levels over the past five years. Unauthorized, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditures incurred resulted in huge money losses the last years. There was a 121% increase in irregular expenditure, and a 68% increase in unauthorized expenses. About..
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Double standards at SAPS – Attack at doctors living quarters get more attention than gruesome farm attacks and murders
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An attack on doctors’ quarters, where no person is killed, leads to a R100,000 reward by SAPS for information about the attackers. Farm attacks where people are murdered, tortured and raped do not receive a response from security circles for rewards. The attacks on doctors are not condoned, but it is called for equilibrium in..
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Letter to President Xi Jinping – Please Protect African Wildlife Like China Protects The Panda! (Video)
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Southern African Fight for Rhino (SAFFR) is an organisation based in South Africa, and has been very active, collectively in challenging the rising demand of all animal products, whether domestic or wild. On this basis, we would like to thank the Chinese government for reinstating the ban on lion, tiger and rhino parts in China.
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Elderly woman cruelly attacked by barbaric terrorist in small town Reddersburg
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Warning: Photo’s not for sensitive readers: An elderly woman from Reddersburg in the South Free State are currently recuperating at close relatives in Bloemfontein after being cruelly attacked at the shop she managed for her daughter. Erica Kleinhans, 51, tells her mother, Poppie Lennox, 78, was alone in her shop on Monday afternoon, “A young..
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Farm attack : Elderly woman brutally stabbed during invasion attack by terrorist in Mpumalanga
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A farm attack took place at Renosterkop which is close to Nelspruit, Mpumalanga Province. The attack was reported by Ian Cameron of AfriForum on 22 November 2018. Two attackers stabbed an elderly woman (69) during the attack. It is reported that only a mobile phone and tablet were stolen. The woman was transported to hospital..
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Like Spur, Discovery will find out that racial discrimination does not work
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Discovery’s plan to allocate ten percent of its shares to black clients at no cost under the smoke screen of empowerment is nothing but blatant racism. In essence, Discovery’s idea to establish a new bank is a good one seeing as it will encourage competition in the banking industry. It is just a shame that..
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An election on George highlighted the unique issue of the white voter yesterday – there is no recognizable difference between the parties, just the color of the T-shirt!
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An election on George highlighted the unique issue of the white elector yesterday. 4 parties participated – the DA, the FF +, the ACDP and the EFF. Problem is- There is no recognizable difference between the first 3, just the color of the T-shirt! The group photos show exactly the same multicultural picture, and the..
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Babelas Dlamini did not get sacked during the latest cabinet shuffle, wonder why she is still in her post?
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ANC President Ramaphosa initially indicated that he would not oppose the application of the opposition to force him to sack Bathabile Dlamini. However,shortly before the announcement of the cabinet shuffle he announced that he would oppose the application. Political experts say that the command came from the ANC’s inner circles. Dlamini has been single out..
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It is to believe that the new law in SA will hold government officials responsible for lost and stolen money, but with our corrupt ANC regime will justice really prevail?
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The implementation of the Public Audit Amendment Act allows the Auditor General to act upon persons who have authorized and allowed illegal and fraudulent expenses. Until the Act’s acceptance, officials and even high political figures simply resigned before they could be punished. But however with the new act, lost money can now be recovered from..
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Bad news for consumers before the festive season, Reserve Bank acknowledges SA’s inability and increases interest rates by 0,25% – people will have to tighten the belts this Xmas to not incur unnecessary debt
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The South African economy is still struggling and is in a technical recession since the beginning of the second quarter. The Reserve Bank held its last of six meetings this year, and had no choice but to raise interest rates by 0.25%. The lending rate to banks is thus increased to 6.75% and means that..
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Heavily Armed robbers speaking in a foreign language opened fire on doctors during robbery at hospital residence in Limpopo
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Three doctors were shot when heavily armed men burst into their residence at Letaba Hospital in Limpopo during a robbery early on Thursday. Photographs of the crime scene show a broken window and what appeared to be blood and a discarded shoe in the living area of the residence. One of the victims, a woman,..
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