Stricter measures on the road will be introduced if this Bill is singed into law. The National Assembly has done its bit. Now it is up to President Cyril Ramaphosa to sign the controversial Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Bill into law. As reported by Business Tech, both Houses were in agreement that..
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Cyril Ramaphosa expected to sign controversial Aarto Bill (Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences) into law
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City Council of Pretoria will replace 13,000 prepaid power meters in the next 4 months after it has been found that PEU Capital Partners’ meters are not valid
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The city council of Pretoria wants to replace 13,000 controversial electric meters, and for that they apparently have only four months to do. The 13,000 prepaid meters have to be replaced by a court decision since the council has entered into an invalid contract and the so called meter is also believed to be illegal..
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ANC Senior received kickback of R300 000 for Jazz-Festival that never took place, costing taxpayers a whopping R28 mil – Heads must role!
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The ANC in Natal’s Deputy Chair, Mike Mabuyakhulu, has filed an application for annulment of corruption charges against him. A jazz festival that never took place in 2012 is in dispute. He approved LUK payment of R28m for which he received a R300,000 bonus. It is unclear why the case has been dragging on for..
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It seems likely that rolling petrol price increases, last experienced in the latter half of 2018, are expected to make a dubious return this year – Petrol price increase in March to be higher than first expected
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The petrol price increase in March is expected to shock South Africans, with a hefty hike eclipsing original estimates. It seems likely that rolling petrol price increases, last experienced in the latter half of 2018, are expected to make a dubious return this year – starting next month. While first estimates, released by the Central..
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SA’s largest township owes Eskom R17 billion – Soweto residents respond: Hell no, we won’t pay for electricity!
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City Press visits Soweto and asks residents why they don’t pay for their electricity and how they could help Eskom to recoup the R17 billion owed by the people who live in SA’s largest township. On Wednesday morning, as load shedding hit the township of 1.3 million residents, small businesses were losing money, and children..
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Loadshedding left a trail of destruction in South Africa, weakening the poor economy by at least R10bn; this should be a costly lesson for the Ramaphosa government
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The five days of loadshedding last week left a trail of destruction in South Africa, and should be an expensive lesson for the Ramaphosa government. It was a week in which transformers exploded, damaging equipment in homes and industries, virtually irreparably damaging substations and even weakening the poor economy by at least R10bn. The load..
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This is the big one: Bosasa allegedly bribed Jacob Zuma with R300k a month
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It’s been reported that former Bosasa executive Angelo Agrizzi is saving his best state capture inquiry testimony until last. Jacob Zuma is next in the cross-hairs. If you’ve been engrossed by the sheer theatre of Angelo Agrizzi’s testimony to the state capture inquiry this week, we’ve got news for you: The best is yet to..
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State-paid wedding plan blows up in former government employers face after authorising government funds to cover a R43 300 shortfall on her wedding
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Criminal charges hang over a government spin doctor who allegedly tried to use funds from her employer, the crisis-stricken Housing Development Agency (HDA), to pay for her wedding in December. The agency said this week it would press criminal charges against its former communications manager, Zingaphi Martin (formerly Matanzima), who resigned while her alleged fraudulent..
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So Zuma is living a lavish life on taxpayers’ hard-earned money! – Taxpayers have to fork out nearly R1m for Zuma’s air transport and cell phone account since he was removed from office as SA’s president
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Taxpayers have forked out just under R1m for former president Jacob Zuma, his spouses and support staff’s transport and phone bills in the first nine months of his departure from office. President Cyril Ramaphosa revealed in a response to a parliamentary question published on Thursday that the state paid R150,668.38 for Zuma’s flights between February..
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The tentacles of corruption is beginning to surface all over SA – Johannesburg swarms with illegal electrical connections as well as buildings erected without municipal approval – Investigations show R9 million loss
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An investigation by Johannesburg City Council at Four Ways revealed that the Council lost nearly R9 million in revenue due to illegal electrical connections. Buildings’ water and sewer connections have not been registered since 2015. It seems to be the tip of the “iceberg” as the investigation was done only in one suburb. It is..
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E-tolls shocking news: Here are the 12 most expensive gates currently in operation
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We’re naming and shaming the priciest e-tolls in SA: Some road users are having to pay nearly R25 to get through a single gate in Gauteng.
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The State capture saga has kick-off for 2019 and 12 insane revelations from ex-Bosasa chief Angelo Agrizzi
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Former Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi makes the Guptas look like monks. His damning testimony at the state capture inquiry has turned heads nationwide.
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Sorry SA, but we need more money, Eskom pleads – Eskom is asking for a 15% tariff increase over the next three years – but in the same breath employs more workers with hefty salaries
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Eskom CEO Phakamani Hadebe made a desperate plea for higher Eskom tariffs over the next three years on Monday, as well as for more money from the government, while apologising to SA for the mess the utility is in. Hadebe was speaking in Cape Town at public hearings held by the National Energy Regulator of..
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UPDATE:- The Zuma “bribe” : Radovan Krejcir case may head to the state capture inquiry
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The startling allegations Radovan Krejcir made against Jacob Zuma this week could head to the Zondo Commission, according to Mo Shaik.
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Schweizer-Reneke: Suspended teacher, Elana Barkhuizen, launches emotional fightback
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Elana Barkhuizen faced the media for the first time since the Schweizer-Reneke segregation controversy hit the headlines, and she’s got her fightback planned.
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