Greater Pretoria’s municipality is in trouble but denies that many homes will have to be demolished and rebuilt. An abandoned multimillion-rand housing project in Ga-Rankuwa Unit 10 in the City of Tshwane will be demolished and rebuilt at an extra cost after contractual disputes with the contractor who abandoned the project in June this year…
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Another waste of taxpayer’s money! – Millions down the drain as Tshwane houses will have to be demolished and rebuilt
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Warning! SAA Strike will intensify – Talks between National carrier and striking unions collapse
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JOHANNESBURG – Talks between South African Airways (SAA) management and striking workers have collapsed. Union leaders briefed the media and workers after the parties met on Saturday in an attempt to resolve the strike which began on Friday. Workers are demanding an 8%wage increase while SAA is offering 5.9%. According to the National Union for..
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Those who are not in favor of the ANC are delighted with the developments: Power struggle amidst ANC ranks – Cadres are turning against each other for office
Unlawful R420m Gupta VAT refund – Sars legal head fired with immediate effect
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Revenue service Sars said on Friday it had terminated the services of its head of legal, Refiloe Mokoena, with immediate effect. It said the decision was taken after a disciplinary hearing chaired by a senior counsel from the Johannesburg Bar. Sars said Mokoena was found guilty of serious misconduct. “Sars has accepted the chairperson’s recommendation..
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ANC-regime needs to take notice – The cost of violent protests has spiked 100 fold in a decade
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The number – and size – of insurance claims filed with state-owned political risk insurer Sasria (the South African Special Risks Insurance Association) show just how much violent protests are costing South Africa. In 2007, after nearly four years of economic growth of over 5%, Sasria received 540 claims worth R14 million for damage as..
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Capitec director gets rid of all his shares
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Capitec director, Jean Pierre starred, sold all his shares on Tuesday. That was 5,000 shares at a total of R7.2m. He said it was a personal decision to sell now. Pierre, one of the best-known short sellers in South Africa, became an independent non-executive director of Capitec at the beginning of 2015. Before long, he..
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Court deals Soweto residents who wants to pay a flat tarrif of R150 a month for electricity a blow by striking case off the roll
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Soweto owes R20bn to power provider Eskom, but residents of the township only want to pay R150 a month for their power. Mpho Sesedinyane, ANC councilor and chair of the South African National Civic Organization (Sanco) in Soweto, feels that R150 is a fair amount and that, given the state of the economy, the residents..
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Junk Status looms – Implementation of NHI will have disastrous consequences for SA economy
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AfriForum today sent a letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni and Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize warning the civil rights organization that the implementation of national health insurance (NHI) could eventually lead to the downgrading of the country’s credit rating to junk status . This comes after the credit rating agency Moody’s..
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Elderly couple violently brutalized by 7 armed barbarians during farm attack
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A violent farm attack took place on 11 November 2019, at 09:30, in Welbekend, Bronkhorstspruit, Gauteng province. A couple, Ben (73) and Ansie Dreyer (70) were attacked by seven armed attackers pretending to be clients wanting to buy milk. Ben along with a worker was forced into the home and into the bedroom where his..
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Is ‘snoobab’ the new k-word?
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The word spells baboons backwards and existed before it was allegedly used to refer to black pupils at Kingswood College. A social media post shared by pupils of Kingswood College in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown) has highlighted racial tensions at the exclusive private school, as well as introduced South Africans to a new racial slur. “Snoobab”,..
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‘Mother of all strikes’ ready to paralyze SAA as union hints at ‘total shutdown’ if national carrier cuts a fifth of staff
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Numsa and Sacca already have a strike certificate as they accuse management of threatening them with retrenchments and call for the SAA board to be scrapped. As if their financial dire straits and the plan that they would have to retrench about 900 people were not enough, the national carrier South African Airways (SAA) is..
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EFF says that Springbok rugby is a symbol of white supremacy against change
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Economic Freedom Fighters member of Parliament (MP) Mbuyiseni Ndlozi on Tuesday reiterated his scorn of the Springbok rugby team and said there would be no racial unity in South Africa until wealth was shared equally and land returned to those from whom it was taken. Ndlozi, in a debate on a motion to congratulate the..
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Power grid remains under pressure, possibility of load shedding not eliminated
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The electricity network remains under pressure and, according to Eskom, there is still the possibility of load shedding for today and the rest of the week, but will only be applied if absolutely necessary. According to Eskom, unplanned interruptions at 22:00 on Sunday were slightly less than 10,000 MW and good progress was made over..
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Meeting held in Kimberley ends in chaos after unlicensed diamond diggers and zama-zama gold miners arrive with weapons
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Apparently, the world-renowned diamond city Kimberley’s project to tie the so-called zama-zama gold miners and diamond miners together into a legal structure did not produce good results. The meeting held in Kimberley became riotous after diggers with arms arrived at the meeting. The actions of dozens of diamond miners, who illegally exploited the diamond fields..
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Insatiable greed for money amongst ANC ranks – MP involved in CR17 R500,000 scam
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The ANC’s MP, Bernice Swarts, is accused of being involved in a scam involving R600,000. The ANC has apparently launched an investigation into the alleged scams where businessmen were under the impression that the money would be used for the ANC’s election campaign. Little information about Swarts is known, but the latest investigation into the..
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