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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The deputy principal of the Jeppe Boys High School in Johannesburg delivered a speech to the pupils last week in which he addressed the issue of “white privilege.”
Amongst other things, mr Kevin Leathem said:
“Imagine playing a video game where the save function was disabled and you were unable to accumulate experience points. That’s what it was like being black during apartheid. No matter how hard you worked, or how much money you earned, you couldn’t own land, businesses, or homes. You couldn’t buy your kids a safer suburb to grow up in or buy them a better education. Every generation started back at zero. Being white was like being the only one with a save function.
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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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Prominent public figures risk losing their jobs or facing jail time as legal cases involving several South African politicians and high-ranking officials are scheduled to be heard in June.
Jacob Zuma
The former president — who resigned in February — faces several charges including one count of racketeering, two counts of corruption, one count of money laundering and 12 counts of fraud which date back to the 1990s.
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Presdent Cyril Ramaphosa has once again outlined the purpose behind the resolution taken by the African National Congress’ (ANC) in their most recent elective conference, to move on land expropriation without compensation.
The ruling party held its inaugural Land Summit in Boksburg on Saturday, with Ramaphosa one of the key speakers.
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Rosebank Police Station’s spokesperson, Sergeant Bongi Mdletshe, confirmed that during a security meeting, Fidelity ADT Security reported an incident where a domestic worker was approached on the road and was offered cash if they could take the baby, Rosebank Killarney Gazette reports.
ADT’s community development manager, Sam Cretten, said although it is too early to panic and highlight this as a trend, one can never be too careful.
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A combined committee of ANC members of KZN and the Free State recently declared that white people in the country are becoming increasingly arrogant.
Webster’s Dictionary defines arrogance as “an insulting way of thinking or behaving that comes from believing that you are better, smarter and superior. An overbearing manner in presumptuous claims or assumptions.”
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ANC lede in Ladysmith het amok gemaak tydens ‘n vergadering van partylede wat beswaard is oor die party se strukture in Natal.
Die lokaal en inhoud is beskadig en die vergadering is “opgebreek” en uitgestel tot ‘n latere datum.
Deur: Die Vryburger
Marietha Aucamp has resigned as Tshwane mayor Solly Msimanga’s chief of staff on Thursday night after it was revealed that she did not have the proper qualifications for the position.
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A fight broke out in parliament on Wednesday during a Labour Portfolio Committee meeting to discuss‚ in detail‚ the National Minimum Wage Bill.
The committee chair‚ Sharome van Schalkwyk‚ described the incident as “unfortunate” and said it was not an indication of how South Africans should resolve differences of opinion.
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The top 10 defaulting municipalities owe Eskom R9.73-billion, and a parliamentary committee has resolved to meet with them to find out why they are not paying their debts………
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Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille may be back in office but she’s not necessarily in charge of the city.
The high court in Cape Town reinstated De Lille’s mayorship on Tuesday. In its reaction to the ruling, the DA……….
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