A parliamentary official has been exposed for wasting millions on some rather ridiculous travel costs. Now, he will have to account for himself.
Parliamentary chief Gengezi Mgidlana is in very hot water over a finding that shows him spending R4m of taxpayers’ money on transport. On Friday, the Cape Town High Court dismissed his bid to stop Parliament carrying out a disciplinary hearing.
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The EFF says he is aware of a planned assassination attempt on his leader Julius Malema.
The party said in a statement on its website that “trusted sources” informed the party of the plans.
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The former ANC MP claims she got wind of a desperate Zuma plot to declare a state of emergency and hang on to power.
On Monday on Facebook former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor repeated the rumour from earlier this year that former president Jacob Zuma had intended to arrest Cyril Ramaphosa instead of step down.
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A community member who has been part of the protests in Hermanus has blamed “drug addicts” for the violence that gripped the coastal town on Monday.
Speaking outside a gutted library, Masibulele Jimlongo said before starting the protest, the community had decided as a collective not to destroy property
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Nobody at the Cape set eyes on black people until 130 years after the white settlers arrived at the cape , when the Trekboers met the Xhosa in the valleys of the Amatola in 1770. The slaves that the settlers imported added to the bloodline of the settlers , as did the French Hugenots of 1688 and British Settlers of 1820. In 1834 slavery was abolished in the Cape.
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The last 2 weeks the controversial topic of land expropriation without compensation has been much debated. For years the ANC/EFF have been misleading the public and the international community with misleading statements that whites own 80% of the land. In November 2017 the Land Audit Report of land ownership was released.
If you look at the real figures about REAL LAND OWNERSHIP it is undeniably clear and very apparent that there is a more sinister motive behind the whole issue about the much debated land issue. The ANC/EFF is deliberately misleading its citizens on land ownership.
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Northam – Communities living in the mining area of Northam Platinum mine in Limpopo braved the rain to hand over a memorandum to the mine on Thursday.
Communities residing in the 50km radius of the mine demanded that they be employed at the mine; that the mine recognise their councillors and traditional leaders; and for the mine to stop recruiting people from Teba in Phokeng and to rather recruit directly from the mining communities.
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The National Assembly has just voted in favour of beginning a process so that the Constitution can be amended to allow land expropriation without compensation.
On Tuesday, 324 of 400 MPs sat in the National Assembly to vote on the motion that was brought by the Economic Freedom Fighters.
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DURBAN -Referring to the Indian community, Lekota asked what would happen to the land that the descendants of indentured labourers had inherited from their great-grandparents.
Dispossessing them of land or property their great-grandparents had worked hard to buy was “not acceptable”, he said.
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Renewed vigour to tackle corruption head-on was palpable in National Treasury’s 2018 budget, tabled in parliament on Wednesday.
Deep-rooted and wide-spread corruption has become commonplace in the public sector under the leadership of former
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KwaZulu-Natal’s traditional leaders appear to be on a collision course with the ANC about the governing party’s decision to dissolve the Ingonyama Trust, which controls three million hectares of tribal land on behalf of King Goodwill Zwelithini. The ANC’s national conference last month passed a series of resolutions aimed at accelerating the pace of land..
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Are you thinking of switching medical aid options? If so, read this first. It’s that time of year again. Many major medical schemes have opened up brief, annual window periods in which members can change their plans. Clueless? Contact your medical aid to find out about specific deadlines. While cost is the first thing most..
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According to an Econex survey commissioned by the Hospital Association of South Africa (Hasa) in 2015, there were just 60 doctors per 100,000 people in 2013; whereas the world average is 152. The emigration of healthcare professionals adds to South Africa’s doctor shortage – a situation which is placing the country’s entire healthcare system at..
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