A number of US officials visited South Africa at the request of President Donald Trump as part of an investigation into the country’s land expropriation process. Trump raised eyebrows in 2018 after he tweeted that the South African government was ‘seizing land from white farmers’. Trump asked his secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, to study..
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President Trump sends US officials to investigate land expropriation in South Africa
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Social media calls for Soweto power to be cut until bill paid, it’s about time that ESKOM do this
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South Africans went online to demand that Soweto’s lights be turned off until residents forked out the money they owe Eskom. Soweto is one of Eskom’s major payment defaulters – People also made jokes on social media, saying Eskom was afraid of the township. Many South Africans have taken to social media to demand that..
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Road users who do not pay their E-toll are now in SERIOUS TROUBLE: Sanral is now blacklisting motorists for unpaid fees
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A Gauteng resident learned this week that he was blacklisted for e-toll fees to the tune of R60 000. As reported by Shaun Smillie The Saturday Star, at least 25 other motorists also received default judgments of unpaid e-tolls fees from the South African National Roads Agency (Sanral). Outa’s Rudie Heyneke told the publication that..
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The government seems to think a R23m injection of funds, and a team of experts will solve the ESKOM problems
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In a recent interview with ENCA, energy analyst Chris Yelland spoke to the inaccuracies of Eskom’s latest load shedding excuses. The latest Eskom’s latest excuse for the energy blackout points at cyclone Idai affecting power production, and the transmission of electricity from supplier Mozambique. This seems to be a valid excuse until Yelland points out..
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Poor little Thandi Modise states that ‘Black Farmers Do Better Than White Farmers In South Africa”, but your farm failed (photo’s)
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The National Council of Provinces chairperson Thandi Modise believes that AfriForum’s decision to privately prosecute her for animal cruelty is to advance the narrative of the failure of black farmers. The lobby group and the SPCA announced on Thursday it would pursue the case. Modise believes that AfriForum is targeting her to show that black..
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SAHRC FAIL – Human Rights Commission sides with Malema in hate speech complaint by FW de Klerk Foundation, well FW you sold our country, now it is a little bit to late to help
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The SA Human Rights Commission has found that EFF leader Julius Malema’s statement that “we are not calling for the slaughtering of white people” did not amount to hate speech. It also found that Malema did not violate the rights of white people in making the statement. The commission, therefore, dismissed a complaint by the..
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Double trouble for South African motorists, you can expect a massive petrol price increase in April, warns AA
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A massive petrol price increase is expected to hit South Africa in April, says the Automobile Association (AA) of South Africa. It’s not an April fool’s day prediction; the petrol price will be going up again next month. While consecutive fuel hikes have become the beleaguered norm in South Africa, April’s looming rise is expected..
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Another ANC failure that SA taxpayers will have to fund – E-tolls gets a R5.7 billion bailout
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The Department of Transport has transferred R5.7 billion to the toll road network of the South African National Roads Agency (Sanral). In a statement on Monday (11 March), the department said that the transfer is a ‘strategic intervention’ to deal with the non-payment by Gauteng road users of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP), which..
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PIC blows millions of of taxpayers money on selected members – embezzlement and corruption are once again the order of the day – tax payers are coughing UP and corrupt ANC members are wasting it
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The former Head of Risk and Compliance at the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), Paul Magula, testified before the PIC’s Commission of Inquiry on how millions of Rands have been spent on a few select members of the corporation. Dan Matjila, the former Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation, once again stands in the trough of..
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ANC-regime wants to use our car licence fee to increase their revenue – This new car licence fee increase will affect South African motorists across the country and put much needed funds in the governments empty pocket
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South African motorists can expect to pay much more in national licensing transaction fees in 2019. This was confirmed by a government gazette published on Friday (8 March) in which minister of Transport, Blade Nzimande, announced a 14% increase in the transaction fees to be paid to the Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC). The fees..
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SA pension pot under threat as government, whose debt is growing every year, looks for new funding sources as taxpayers could no longer be squeezed for more money
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The pension pot in South Africa, one of the largest in the world, could be under threat as government, whose debt is growing every year, looks for new funding sources. IF THIS HAPPENS THERE COULD BE DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES. This according to the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), which warned of a threat by government to..
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Just something to think about with regards to SA taxes that will leave you shocked!
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Taxpayers should not foot the bill for ANC government’s failures. We need to look deeper into our system of government, and how we allocate risk and reward, responsibility and accountability. At this moment, if you earned R100, you pay R33 income tax. You are left with R67. You buy R67 worth of fuel, pay 48%..
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ESKOM gives a US company a blank cheque, and they are cashing it in for a whooping R13bn
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The US company that designed the extremely flawed Kusile Power Station in Mpumalanga was given a blank cheque by Eskom, which it cashed in to score R12 billion. Despite the fact that the engineering consulting firm Black & Veatch, which is situated in Kansas in the US, delivered shoddy work that continues to hobble Kusile’s..
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It going rather jolly in economically cash strapped SA! – Contractor, Setho Engineering receives more than R88 million rand at City Power for work that has never been done on Eldorado Park substation
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A City Power employee was fired after being found guilty of misconduct and conspiracy with contractors. He apparently facilitated payments for work that has never been done at the Eldorado Park substation. This is the second worker who was fired due to conspiracy with the same contractor Setho Engineering. Setho Engineering has received over R88..
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Eskom’s request to increase electricity granted after poor administrators of SA-regime succumb to unrealistically high demands – annual revenue of the state entity will now increase by R784bn
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The bankrupt power provider of South Africa, who has already stolen billions of rand from the taxpayers’ pockets, once again got its way. The poor administrators of our beloved SA have succumbed and allowed heavy increases to hit consumers in the next three years. The ANC government, under the leadership of the Energy Regulator of..
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