Andrew Mlangeni told an audience that included Ramaphosa government should start with giving its own land away first.
The ANC’s 93-year-old anti-apartheid stalwart Andrew Mlangeni has reportedly warned that government’s land reform project could be ruinous if handled badly because of Afrikaners’ unwillingness not to “allow it to go ahead without a fight”.
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WE’VE SPOKEN SEVERAL times about the situation in South Africa — in particular, about the systematic murder of White farmers there by Blacks and the failure of the new Black government to stop the murders.
The slaughter continues. Since I spoke with you about this in June, another 67 White farmers or members of White farm families have been murdered in South Africa. Many of the murders have been accompanied by torture, rape, and mutilation. Altogether nearly six hundred White farmers have been murdered by Blacks in South Africa since the Whites agreed in 1993 to let the Blacks run the country. That’s one per cent of South Africa’s 58,000 White farmers.
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The ANC has no right to prevent its members from seeking court intervention in party matters when it hasn’t exercised its role in resolving issues itself. So says Mawande Ndakisa, an Eastern Cape ANC and Youth League member.
He is also one of the complainants who has taken the “festival of chairs” matter to the high court in Johannesburg for not resolving the issue properly.
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A state-of-the-art school built for children with special needs in Gauteng stands empty.
Where there should be the sound of children playing, there is silence. Where there should be learning, there are empty classrooms. Where there should be teaching, there are blank chalkboards.
This is the situation at the Nokuthula Centre and Special School in Lyndhurst, Johannesburg. Nokuthula is a “LSEN school”, meaning it caters for “learners with special education needs”.
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Dead ANC members have been kept on its branch membership lists in what concerned party activists in Mpumalanga claim was part of a plan to inflate membership figures ahead of last year’s national conference.
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Justin Barrett, President of the National Party of Ireland speaking at a Party meeting in Cork City said “South Africa has a very complicated flag. They put so much thought into their colourful new flag, that they didn’t put much thought into how to run the country and now it is falling apart”
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The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) faces its first test against corruption within its ranks as it prepares to deal with one of its most popular leaders accused of illegally using R600 0000 of workers’ money in two years.
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I was hoping it will not be necessary for me to write this, and have been putting it off, but I cannot hide this anymore. It is like a bad dream – a horrible nightmare. Every time when I open my eyes, think normally, think realistically, I shake my head in disbelief. “It cannot be true!”
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Justice Minister Michael Masutha has presented the International Crimes Bill to Parliament’s justice portfolio committee. This could be a precursor to the country repealing the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Act (2002), and eventually withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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The ANC in the North West has decided that Supra Mahumapelo will remain a member of the provincial legislature and will continue drawing a salary funded by taxpayers.
He resigned as premier two weeks ago following widespread accusations of corruption and maladministration that led to violent protests across the province.
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The City of Johannesburg has obtained a writ of execution against the ANC for its failure to pay over R300 000 in legal fees owed to the City and its residents.
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Yesterday, 6 June 2018, during a media conference, the mayor of the Mangaung Metro Municipality (Bloemfontein, Dewetsdorp, Van Stadensrus, Wepener and Soutpan), Ms Olly Mlamleli, indicated that she is going to propose that the Metro must buy between 1000 and 2000 tickets for the Bloemfontein Celtic soccer match and then hand these tickets out to the poor.
The ANC government is only interested in short term politics and the proposed purchase and distribution of the soccer tickets can be seen as a desperate attempt by the ANC to hold onto political power.
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Struggling state airline SAA is splurging millions on executives and consulting firms in a spending frenzy that has been described as “worrying”.
Its recently appointed chief executive, Vuyani Jarana, has said the increased expenditure is necessary to address a severe skills shortage.
The Mail & Guardian has established that SAA, which last week received yet another R5‑billion bailout from the treasury, is paying R25‑million to Deutsche Bank in a deal to analyse its financials and restructure its debt.
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The Pretoria high court has ordered the South African Police Service to pay the legal fees of three apartheid-era security policemen who are accused of murdering Umkhonto weSizwe fighter Nokuthula Simelane.
Judge Cynthia Pretorius handed down judgment on June 5 after the gruelling litigation led to numerous delays in the………..
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More than 60000 South African households still use the bucket toilet system – 12 years past the initial deadline set by the government to eradicate them.
This is according to Statistics SA’s Non-Financial Census of Municipalities 2017 report released this week.
The report lifted the lid on the shameful picture in some of the municipalities.
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