The Democratic Alliance is demanding an explanation from quality assurer Umalusi for the upward adjustment of marks in 16 subjects of the matric class of 2017. Umalusi revealed on Friday that of 58 subjects written this year‚ 20 had their marks adjusted – 16 upwards and 4 downwards. Nomsa Marchesi‚ DA shadow deputy minister of..
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Explain Upward Matric Marks Adjustment
The Madness Of Land Expropriation Without Compensation: Stephen Mulholland Unpacks ANC Plans
White, Indian Funeral Parlours Warned About Operating In Townships
Education Of A Black Child
Memoirs Of A Black Man To Those Wailing, Whimpering And Crying About’That That Was Theirs’ And Was Taken From Them
Message From A Departing South African
Who’s The Biggest Thief: Atul Gupta Or Markus Jooste? Errol Horwitz Sizes Up Steinhoff Spoils
ConCourt: Parliament has failed to hold Zuma to account
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The Constitutional Court has ruled that the National Assembly failed to put in place mechanisms to hold President Zuma accountable. The EFF, Cope and the UDM asked the highest court to compel Parliament to hold the president to account after its Nkandla judgement. Judge Chris Jafta, reading the orders, said the National Assembly failed to..
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Malema vs Mbalula: Twitter spat breaks out over minister’s whereabouts
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A Twitter spat between EFF leader Julius Malema and Police Minister Fikile Mbalula over his holiday whereabouts took full flight on Wednesday – with Malema warning Mbalula that it would all end in tears. “Now you are talking rubbish and when I start you will be crying like a baby,” Malema tweeted in response to..
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High Court Questions Mokgatle Credibility
#GuptaNEC Meeting In Dubai – South African Media Absent
The ruling party moves for land, and the Reserve Bank
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The ANC will seek to amend the constitution of the country to allow for expropriation of land without compensation and will also nationalise the South African Reserve Bank, the party announced on Wednesday night. The contentious announcement was made just before the close of its 54th national conference on Wednesday night. The sectoral commission on..
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Zuma: Ramaphosa can not be my co-President
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Even as the high court in Pretoria was delivering a series of nasty blows to President Jacob Zuma in a judgment on Wednesday, his legal team filed an application to appeal his most immediate prior loss: the stripping of his power to appoint the head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). On Friday the court..
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South Africa’s race relations laid bare in Steinhoff scandal
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South Africans are fond of debating whether public or private sector failings are the bigger problem. It does not take too long to realise that they are really talking about race. This is evident as the country faces an unusual scandal – one involving a private company called Steinhoff. The multinational furniture company is in..
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ANC’s plan to steal property places South Africa on Zimbabwean road
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The civil rights watchdog AfriForum says that the ANC’s decision to amend South Africa’s Constitution to allow expropriation without compensation boils down to a decision to commit theft and to place the country on the same road of destruction that Zimbabwe followed in its violation of property rights. According to Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum,..
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