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We are stuck with Zuma: Thousands march against state capture, corruption

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We are stuck with Zuma: Thousands march against state capture, corruption

Workers across the country downed tools, marched to key points in various cities, and demanded an end to corruption and state capture. All nine provinces in the country engaged in the protected strike action today, which saw thousands of Cosatu supporters stream into public spaces, with many carrying placards with the recurring theme: [Jacob] Zuma..
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Court grants interdict to freeze R1.7-billion Gupta mine rehab funds

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Anti-corruption advocacy group the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) on Tuesday won an urgent interim interdict to freeze some R1.75-billion in mine rehabilitation funds from two Gupta-owned coal mines. The group’s urgent application was heard in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria. In a media statement, Outa said their action was not opposed. The..
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Heavyweight political parties pig out on the money pie

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It took more than a month for the treasury and the Independent Electoral Commission to add up just how much public money is flowing into the private banks of political parties from various sources. And when they found out, this was pretty much all the information that they could provide. The answer is R1.09-billion. A..
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Mantashe has every right to back Ramaphosa for president

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ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu has defended secretary general Gwede Mantashe’s right to pronounce on his preferred candidate for the party’s next president. Mantashe nailed his colours to the mast this weekend while speaking at two events in Limpopo, which was also simultaneously tweeted. He said the ANC “will never elect a woman President”, but..
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Cosatu plans nationwide stayaway against the ‘predatory elite’

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Trade union federation Cosatu has called on all workers in the government and private sector not to go to work on Wednesday and instead join a march against state capture and corruption. “It’s a total stayaway and everyone in the country, whether you are part of Cosatu or not, you are protected,” Cosatu general secretary..
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Malema: When ‘they took the land’, it was called colonialism, but when blacks try to do the same, it’s called land theft’

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Malema: When ‘they took the land’, it was called colonialism, but when blacks try to do the same, it’s called land theft’

When South Africans were busy celebrating Heritage Day on Sunday, EFF leader Julius Malema was sharing his frustration on the issue of land. The EFF leader says when ‘they took the land’, it was called colonialism, but when blacks try to do the same, it’s called land theft’. In a series of tweets Malema said..
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Zwelithini ‘not paid what he deserves’ as a king – You got to be joking

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Zwelithini 'not paid what he deserves' as a king - You got to be joking

IS HE WORTH IT? King Goodwill Zwelithini’s family has grown over the years, and with it the amount the taxpayer continues to fork out to fund it Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has lashed out at the provincial government‚ accusing them of failing to pay him what he deserves. The monarch was speaking at a King..
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Tshwane biking cops are for whites‚ says ANC

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Tshwane biking cops are for whites‚ says ANC

The African National Congress Tshwane Caucus has condemned the decision of the capital to introduce metro cops on bicycles in Hatfield. In a statement released on Friday‚ the opposition said the move made by Tshwane mayor Solly Msimanga was aimed at protecting whites. “The African National Congress Tshwane Caucus condemns the actions of the DA..
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South Africa tells us that something is wrong – but we don’t listen anymore

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Is it really so that we don’t listen any more? In the aftermath of the Tumi Morake debacle that was one of the main accusations – we don’t listen any more. I don’t know if this is true, all I know is that we have certainly stopped listening to what South Africa herself wants to tell us Because when a white farmer is murdered in the most gruesome way on his farm, and the media keeps quiet about it – South Africa tells us that something is wrong. When coloured children on the Cape Flats are murdered and tortured by gangs and the provincial government keeps quiet about it – South Africa tells us that something is wrong. When an elderly woman is raped and her rapist says: “I did it because she is white” – South Africa tells us that something is wrong. When an Indian shopkeeper is robbed and stabbed – South Africa tells us that something is wrong. When a radio broadcaster openly offends a minority group by calling them bullies and gets away with it because she “only said what she felt” – South Africa tells us that something is wrong. How can it ever be right to offend and then justify your refusal to apologise? And when I look at a man and hate him purely because he is black or white or coloured, not for what he says or does, but for what he was born to be – then South Africa tells us that something is wrong When we then respond by saying: “No, things are not ideal, but life is much better for many people”, then there must be something terribly wrong with us, because then we don’t listen to South Africa any more. If a better life for some must come at the cost of blood and humiliation and blame and hatred and racism and prejudice and injustice and crime, then we cannot justify that improvement any more. The cost of believing that South Africa is doing well, is becoming too much now. It is not me saying this, it is South Africa saying this. Because if we have to destroy each other in this country, then we have to admit that we are on a course of destroying ourselves as well. We have always lived together in this country. I, as a white man, was born here and I love this country above all others. I belong here. And I am more than prepared to admit that so does the black man and woman, the coloured man and woman, the Indian man and woman. But then we must stand up, white South Africans and black and coloured and Indian and immigrant South Africans and say in Afrikaans and English and isiXhosa and in Zulu and Pedi and Fanagalo: There is something very wrong! When I have to live in fear and suffer humiliation and stereotyping and insult for who I am and what I believe, that cannot be right. Let us take the lessons which we have learned from the past 23 years and go back to the drawing board and start all over again! We need to figure out a way in which no man in this country has to live by the grace and the rules and the judgements of another. We need to have the right to be who we are, associate with whom we want to and each to call his own little piece of land under this great Southern sun: “Home.” And for that we cannot look to those career politicians in Parliament with their corrupt attitudes and their fancy old suits and diabolical fake smiles on posters when it becomes election time, only waiting for the time to pass to retire with their pension and their loot. We need to look to ourselves and say: If we are prepared to accept the status quo and to keep on justifying it with empty words, we have to accept that we are not listening to what South Africa tells us – and then there must indeed be something terribly wrong with us. We need to stop saying what is owed to us by the other person, and start asking: What do I owe myself and the people I am part of? This weekend we celebrate Heritage Day. Is this not the day on which we must now ask: What heritage will we leave behind? Will it be said of us: They were the last South Africans? If we have to admit the failure of the current dispensation and get rid of the causes of this failure, then that is what we must do. If we have to sit down and redesign South Africa to give each and every man and woman their due, their right, their heritage – then that is what we must do. And if every person in this country have to swallow the humiliation of admitting that we went wrong over the last few years, for our own sakes, then that is what we must do. If we cannot recognize and admit that some things, too many things, in South Africa are not right, then indeed something must be very wrong with us. Read the original article by Daniel Lötter on Front Nasionaal SA – blad South Africa Today – South Africa News

Is it really so that we don’t listen any more? In the aftermath of the Tumi Morake debacle that was one of the main accusations – we don’t listen any more. I don’t know if this is true, all I know is that we have certainly stopped listening to what South Africa herself wants to..
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What is the ANC learning from the private sector

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Within the past few days, former president Kgalema Motlanthe said it would be good if the ANC was voted out of office (good for the ANC, that is), the outspoken MP Makhosi Khoza resigned from Parliament and from the ANC, and the Bank of Baroda won a court case to allow it to stop being..
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Fikile Mbalula: Most farmers are not a “bunch of racists”

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Fikile Mbalula: Most farmers are not a "bunch of racists"

Most farmers are not a “bunch of racists”‚ says Police Minister Fikile Mbalula. “There are rotten potatoes which from time to time play themselves out in different episodes‚” he told a media conference in Pretoria on Wednesday. “There will be from time to time episodes that play themselves out in terms of racists attacks‚” Mbalula..
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New Evidence! Gupta, Bell Pottinger Deep In Moyane-Gordhan Battle For SARS

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  EDINBURGH — Former finance minister Pravin Gordhan was not being paranoid when he highlighted nearly two years ago that there was a sinister conspiracy by political enemies to get him out of the way – even if it meant tying him up in a criminal investigation. An email unearthed in the #GuptaLeaks by Forensics for Justice’s Paul O’Sullivan provides more..
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Makhosi Khoza leaves ANC to join anti-corruption organisation

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Makhozi Khoza has just announced that she is revoking her ANC membership to join the “the new anti-corruption movement of society and faith-based organisations”. Khoza made the announcement at a press briefing on Thursday at Lilliesleaf, Johannesburg. In a long, emotional speech she said that the ANC had become filled with corrupt leaders. “I have..
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Senzo Mchunu gives explosive details on KZN killings

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The manipulation of how councillors are selected stoked political violence in KwaZulu-Natal, said former provincial premier and ANC chairperson Senzo Mchunu. Mchunu, who was fired as premier after losing the November 2015 elective conference to current chairperson Sihle Zikalala, made the explosive disclosures at the Moerane Commission into political killings in KwaZulu-Natal. The elective conference..
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Jacaranda FM Advertiser ‘Had Enough’, Pulls Advertising Worth R100K

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Jacaranda FM Advertiser 'Had Enough', Pulls Advertising Worth R100K

“Black people should stop saying we [white people] are to blame for their problems”.  Eric Barnard Meubels in Pretoria has pulled its advertising from Jacaranda FM because they do not want to be associated with a station that “gets involved with politics and mix it with business”. Manager and director of the popular furniture store,..
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