Cosatu has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to sack health minister Aaron Motsoaledi, arguing that he is directly responsible for the continued deterioration of the healthcare system in the country.
“People are losing their lives on a daily basis and this has reached crisis levels. What has disappointed Cosatu the most is Minister Motsoaledi’s denialism and scapegoating.”
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Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform Mcebisi Skwatsha has said government is considering expropriating land without compensation to assist more than 20 000 farm dwellers facing eviction in the Drakenstein municipality.
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South Africa’s national statistical service has revealed the worst quarterly contraction of country’s economy in nearly a decade after Cyril Ramaphosa ousted Jacob Zuma from leadership, yet it appears he has not been able to do much better, quite opposite in fact.
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ANC general secretary, Ace (the Free State-milkman) Magashule, announced that, not only does the ANC intend to start with expropriation of land without compensation within the next week or two, but that they will also start a process to nationalize the Reserve Bank of South Africa.
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Gerhard Papenfus, the chief executive of the National Employers’ Association of South Africa (NEASA), has written an open letter to Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant
Dear Minister
Since I am “white”, I take note when you talk so boldly about “whites” being the stumbling block in terms of your transformation agenda. I write this letter to you in order to get clarity.
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A lobby group backing Jacob Zuma is pushing ahead with a plan to form a new political party aiming to weaken the ANC enough at the polls for the former president to potentially return to power.
Their move ends several months of speculation that some of Zuma’s backers were planning to undermine President………..
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For two decades accusations against the FW de Klerk Government have been flying about. Many people have been whispering about huge sums of money being paid over by Swiss bank accounts to NP politicians and government operators, in order to hand over the South African Government to the ANC. For 18 years nothing could be proven, till now
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But traditional leaders, including King Goodwill Zwelithini, say attempts to disband land trusts will result in a ‘bloodbath’
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Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga will on Thursday release the ministerial task team report into the possibility of introducing history as a compulsory subject in grades 10‚ 11 and 12.
At present‚ pupils take history to grade 9 and are permitted to drop it in grade 10.
The plan has been criticised in some quarters‚ with some fearing that history will be abused as a political propaganda tool‚ as in Zimbabwe‚ where the history syllabus in government schools is reportedly biased in favour of the ruling Zanu-PF.
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Speaking in Parliament during the presidency budget debate, Malema said he had initially told supporters to scale down land occupations after the ANC supported a move to expropriate land without compensation to end South Africa’s skewed land ownership patterns. The opposition leader said Ramaphosa had since made “wishy-washy” statements on the matter.
“Our people must continue to occupy land. This land belongs to us and if the ANC wants to kill our people for rightfully claiming their land, do so
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Remember Zebediela Citrus Estate? Here’s what happened to it:
From 1918 to 1926, more than 565 000 citrus trees were planted on 2 260 ha of this estate’s land. For the twenty five years before the estate was sold to the South African government in 1974, it showed a profit of millions of rands every year. After the sale, Zebediela grew to become “the diamond of agricultural projects”.
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The offensive remarks by the ANC’s Kgalema Motlanthe regarding traditional leaders was to be expected, taken into account that who and what the ANC was when De Klerk and his henchman handed over South Africa and the ten self-governing indigenous states to the ANC in 1994.
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Yesterday the ANC’s National Executive Committee at its meeting on land expropriation decided that they will not be waiting for the change of the constitution to continue with expropriation of land without compensation.
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Basic Education Minister, Angie Motshekga, has announced sweeping changes to the teaching of history as a school subject, saying it would be Afrocentric and not based on European history.
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Controversial plans to amend the constitution to enable land grabs without compensation in South Africa, are raising already high tensions among the nation’s white minority, many of whom have taken to arming themselves, not only to protect themselves and their family in a crime ridden country, but also to defend their property or farms against government seizures…
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