The Western Cape Education Department has scheduled a meeting with representatives of aggrieved Diazville High School pupils who protested against being taught in Afrikaans. Around 300 pupils protested outside the school last week about some teachers allegedly conducting lessons in Afrikaans instead of English, the language of teaching at the school. Please also read our..
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If its not ESKOM that don’t want people to speak Afrikaans now pupils reject being taught in Afrikaans
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Well well, ‘Captain Hat’ Bheki Cele expected to clear the air about rumoured SAPS strike, O REALLY!
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After recent murmurs of a planned SAPS strike, Police Minister Bheki Cele noted that he, alongside national commissioner general Khehla Sitole, would address the media on this issue on Thursday, 14 March, at the Gauteng SAPS Provincial headquarters, in Parktown. Is the SAPS strike legitimate? As reported by The Mercury, the rumours surfaced on social..
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#BlackPrivilege: Violent protest led by EFF students reeks havoc at UKZN campus after demands was not met – serious damage to property was caused by acts of arson and vandalism
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While the academic program at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) resumed at the Westville campus on Wednesday, a group of EFF students attempted to ignite a safety quad bike, dismantled several windows, and threw police and security guards with stones. The incidents occurred throughout the day, the same day that campus operations resumed after university..
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South Africa needs more people like Eckard Binding- Businessman from Pretoria donates scholarship to student who picked up EFF-trash during protest action at university
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A businessman in Pretoria has donated a scholarship to the student who picked up the EFF litter during protest action on the campus of the University of the Free State. Pretoria FM News reported that an anonymous businessman from Mangaung Metro saw the video of student, Eckard Binding, who continued to throw the junk back..
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TUT’s nine campuses across the country are still closed due to violent protests by black disadvantaged students who apparently cannot study on empty stomachs
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Academic programs were discontinued at all Tshwane University of Technology campuses and students were ordered to vacate residences. Residence property has been damaged in the past and recovery costs have not yet been calculated. Fears exist for student and staff safety. According to TUT’s Willa de Ruyter, the situation at campuses is unpredictable and flammable…
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Rolling Blackouts on the cards as AMCU threaten secondary strike , AMCU represents about half of coal mine workers in SA
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The tussle between Sibanye-Stillwater and the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) has reached new heights. The trade union, whose membership also includes coal mine workers, has teased a secondary strike and this could affect load shedding too. Why is AMCU set to embark on a secondary strike? AMCU president, Joseph Mathunjwa, made it..
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Police and and Gauteng Department of Education officials held hostage by the community in protest for new school
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Frustrated parents and community members in Roodepoort, decided to take the law in to their hands after being let down by the GDE on numerous occasions. Roodepoort Police and Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) officials were recently held hostage by furious parents and community members from Durban Deep at the Durban Deep Primary School. Apparently,..
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Protest actions and strike is becoming a norm in SA – Cosatu plans to bring economic activities in eight provinces to a complete halt and stated: ‘We will march to show our anger’
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) plans to bring economic activities in eight provinces to a complete halt on Wednesday February 15, 2019. The labour federation said the national shutdown was intentionally planned ahead of the budget speech, so that minister Tito Mboweni could respond to the labour sector concerns on job losses,..
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University of Natal in Serious Crisis – students are setting vehicles on fire and destroying infrastructure built up by the former government – all classes are suspended until further notice
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All classes at the University of Natal were suspended until further notice the many protest actions of students.
A vehicle was set on fire during the protest and peaceful lecturers and learners felt unsafe on campus.
Academic activities have been characterized by ongoing violence, protests and property damage in recent years.
On Monday, Wits University was in chaos when a lot of students disrupted classes, and it is expected to move further to other universities in the country.
Police said no arrests had been made following violent protests at University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) campuses on Monday in which two vehicles and a guard house were set alight by students.
South African Police Service (SAPS) spokesperson in KwaZulu-Natal, Colonel Thembeka Mbele, told African News Agency (ANA) that to her knowledge, no arrests had been made.
Students at universities in the province have called for a total shutdown of institutions from Monday, the official start
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Guests evacuated at KZN resort after hundreds of Panga-wielding protesters storm the holiday resort and vandalise facilities
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Guests at a holiday resort in northern KwaZulu-Natal had to be evacuated after an armed mob stormed the grounds and vandalised facilities on Friday morning. It is understood that the people, numbering in the hundreds and many of whom were armed with pangas, had pulled down a perimeter fence before swarming the Natal Spa resort..
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Violent actions by groups of striking AMCU members are causing havoc and mayhem at Sibanye-Stillwater
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Sibanye-Stillwater advises that violent actions by groups of striking AMCU members close to its Beatrix operations in the Free State province, have continued. In the early hours of the morning on 11 December 2018, various altercations between the South African Police Service (SAPS) and large groups of AMCU members resulted in a number of employees..
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Security guard dies after being set alight in plastics strike chaos – Numsa called the strike, but say they are not to blame for the resulting carnage
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A security guard, Lesley Lekgalake Mphahlele, died on Tuesday after succumbing to his injuries, sustained after he was doused with petrol and set alight by violent protesters. The Plastics Converters Association (PCASA) blamed the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) for the violence that had resulted from a strike the union called for…
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Eff thugs at it again – Vodacom stores in Polokwane mall vandalized in the name of democracy, no arrests been made yet
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EFF supporters have vandalized all the Vodacom stores at the Mall of the North in Polokwane. They are protesting against an image of Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu captioned “abusers of democracy”, shown at the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards. It seems the inconvenient truth hurts. Ironically, these acts of destruction just confirms the..
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Reiger Park on the East Rand is “closed” – the so called tire gang is on the loose again,chaos and violence now rule the new SA where mayhem and destruction is the order of the day
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Reiger Park on the East Rand is “closed”. All access roads are barred with traditional burning tires, stones and wood stumps. The community forum declared that people were marginalized and that delivery and development projects had to be addressed. The government is called upon to fulfill their duty. Meanwhile, protesters in Kempton Park torched three..
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EFF members have threatened a “radical and militant” shutdown of Riebeek College Girls’ High School in Uitenhage amid allegations of racism that have rocked the prestigious school
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Tempers flared outside the school gates on Tuesday after a handful of EFF members arrived and were refused entry. But the pupils involved have said they do not want things to get out of hand. Police were called to the school twice and several armed response security vehicles were parked nearby as the thwarted group,..
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