The cash-strapped city of Umhlathuze on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast is spending an estimated R20-million on a mansion for its mayor‚ Mduduzi Gift Mhlongo.
The disgraceful state of destruction, violence and danger to civilians which we had to witness this week in both Centurion and Hermanus is the direct result of the incompetence and irresponsibility of the South African government, the State President and the EFF. Continue reading…
JOHANNESBURG – Former president Jacob Zuma’s lawyer has confirmed they have received a summons for him to appear in court on April 6.
His lawyer, Michael Hulley says they are now busy preparing an application to review the National Prosecuting Authority’s decision to prosecute Zuma Continue reading…
The ANC will not support Jacob Zuma in his upcoming corruption trial, but the party’s members can — as long as they don’t wear the party’s regalia.
This is a very different approach from Zuma’s rape trial, as well as initial attempts to lay corruption charges against him, in which he received overwhelming support from ANC structures, with many calling the charges politically motivated. Continue reading…
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. Continue reading…
Canada’s Federal Court has rejected a white Afrikaner family’s bid for asylum in the country, claiming that racially skewed crime statistics from South Africa constituted “white-supremacist hate literature”. Continue reading…
The upcoming Jaco Zuma trial looks like it will take years to come to an end. At this stage, it might even take years to get going.
The latest instalment in South Africa’s longest running political soap opera played out dramatically on 16 March when Shaun Abrahams, Continue reading…
The president is attending an AU summit and wants the continent to rid itself of a ‘colonial mentality’.
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday strongly punted the idea of creating a single homogeneous currency for African countries in a bid to attract infrastructure investment and enable ease of intra-African trade. Continue reading…
On Tuesday, the state announced that it was withdrawing charges against IPID (Independent Police Investigative Directorate) head Robert McBride for child abuse. No reasons were given at the Pretoria Magistrates Court as to why the charges were being dropped – but it marks a provisional end to a story marked by peculiar circumstances from the start. Continue reading…
Deputy President David Mabuza has told Parliament during his first question session in the National Assembly that land must be returned to the landless.
Mabuza took to the podium for his maiden outing in his new post in Parliament on Tuesday to answer six questions and their follow-ups in the House Continue reading…
The Western Cape Prime Minister, Helen Zille, whose party is in various coalitions with the EFF, has gone on social media against Julius Malema regarding his unbridled racism. Continue reading…
Jacob Zuma, who is now going to be prosecuted on about 700 complaints ranging from fraud and money laundering to racketeering, son Edward, now believes that the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is waging a witch hunt against his father. Continue reading…