This time Pick ‘n Pay outdone themselves with their latest advertisement. It seems that this very well known grocery store is becoming legendary for making huge blunders with adverts. The latest flyers shows that consumers can now purchase 2 cases of Budwieser Beer with the special price of only R264. The beer was marked of..
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30% Pass rate for Maths is starting to show in Pick ‘n Pay’s BEE Policy
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Month-end 33% of teachers in black South African schools are AWOL – Inadequate funding is not the main cause of South Africa’s poor-quality education, the teachers are the problem!
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IMF report slams SA’s education folly – Costly, politically expedient interventions will not fix SA’s dysfunctional education system; we must tackle the root causes of the problem. Without addressing the weak foundations at the primary and secondary school levels, the government’s flagship policy of free tertiary education is likely to deliver disappointing results. At worst,..
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Brace for impact, everybody – Petrol price set for a massive increase – Wonder if there is any truth in the saying, that every time the ANC-regime needs money, they raise the petrol price?
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The forecast for the month ahead is a beast, as the petrol price is set for second consecutive major increase in April. They’ve got us by the gas pumps, here. Data released by the Central Energy Fund (CEF) this week suggests that the petrol price increase for April 2019 could hit South Africa with tremendous..
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Problems at Eskom hit rock bottom – rocks are being sold to Eskom as coal by fraudulent suppliers, poor quality coals the cause of six turbines seizing at power stations
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Load shedding has been an unwelcome visitor to South African homes this year as Eskom continues to fail in its responsibility to keep South Africa’s lights on. A recent discussion on SABC about load shedding highlighted the extent of the problems being faced at the power supplier. These include the poor quality of coal used…
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Here are the obscure and the infamous Political Parties, the ‘shopping list’: All 48 parties contesting the 2019 Elections (video)
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The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has confirmed that there will be a record number of political parties contesting the national ballot paper on Wednesday 8 May, as the public make their voices heard for the 2019 Elections. There are 48 organizations vying for the vote in all nine provinces. Of course, all the..
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BREAKING NEWS:- Cyril Ramaphosa has to choose between South Africa and the ANC, what do you think will he choose?
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If Cyril Ramaphosa is truly committed to cleaning up the state, creating a professional and effective public service and putting the country on a steady economic growth path, he cannot commit to the ANC, writes Pieter du Toit. The depth of South Africa’s national crisis is becoming clearer by the day. Eskom’s inability to keep..
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Forget power cuts. What’s happening to our water supply is much more serious. After two decades of little or no maintenance of municipal sewerage plants, SA is vulnerable to medieval, water-borne diseases and something even more serious: thirst.
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Villages, towns and even a capital city are experiencing severe water shortages, caused by a combination of years of bad management and drought. Many Limpopo villages have no water at all. Kimberley has its water switched off every night. The army is trying to stop millions of litres of sewage from going into the Vaal..
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Katie Hopkins visited South Africa last year, and she is fighting for us:- The Afrikaner Boer to Inspire the West (video)
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In a presentation at the David Horowitz Freedom Center Restoration Weekend in November 2018 in Sherman Oaks, California, the firebrand British Conservative, Katie Hopkins, talked about the threat to the values of the West. I am not as “Far Right” as Katie, but near the end of her presentation she posed a question, “What can..
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Consultant turns away customer at SASSA office – Is it perhaps because the customer is white?
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Susan Strydom (66) was turned away on March 19 from Sassa in Springs by one of the consultants when she went there to apply for an old age grant. Strydom says she was asked where she was all along as she is only coming now to apply and also says the consultant told her to..
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President Ramaphosa says white land owners are no longer in a position to resist government’s land reform policies – ANC-regime to pick up the pace of land reform after election
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Ramaphosa was speaking at a government function to hand over title deeds to the Griqua and Khoi communities of Ebenhaeser on the West Coast. The president said it was time for white land owners to cooperate with his administration in changing land ownership patterns and to stop frustrating the process. He said the new administration..
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BREAKING NEWS:- Being a ex-convict seems to be the new qualification to get ahead in Politics:- EFF will send ex-convict Kenny Motsamai to NCOP: Julius Malema
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Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says the party will fight the criminal record of former Pan Africanist Congress freedom fighter Kenny Motsamai in order to be able to deploy him in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP). Mosamai was convicted for killing a white traffic officer in Rustenburg in 1989. Malema said Motsamai’s..
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Now this is a new modus operandi for the ANC, or maybe not:- Gwede Mantashe’s joke about buying a vote for R20 has caused a stir [video]
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On the campaign trail, Gwede Mantashe’s attempt at light humour somewhat backfired, as South Africans didn’t take too kindly to one of his jokes. Ahh, so that’s how you get the electorate onside, then? Gwede Mantashe has been lambasted by social media users after a video of him playfully offering money to a voter surfaced..
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Pandemonium brakes loose at China Mall – Woman falls to her death in an attempt to escape violent protesters in Durban
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Chaos erupted in the area on Sunday night, when a mob of 100 people burnt and looted local tuckshops.
A man was shot dead and two others wounded after shop owners allegedly opened fire on the mob.
Violent action continued into Monday morning, when roads were blocked off and tyres were set alight.
According to Rescue Care’s Garrith Jamieson, on 25 March 2019, a female, believed to be about 45 years old, fell to her death when she plunged through the roof of a building at China Mall in Inanda Road, Durban. Jamieson said the female was allegedly trying to runaway from incensed protesters when the tragedy occurred.
She fell approx 3m to her death. Paramedics arrived to find her in a state of cardiac arrest. The patient sustained critical injuries and was declared deceased on scene.
It has not yet been established whether the woman was a shop owner or an employee.
Two men who were also trying to escape the mob on the roof also fell through and suffered s
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Armed gangs now target Health Care centres – Five armed men rob Durban kidney patients undergoing dialysis
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Staff and patients were held up at gunpoint at the Kidney Care Centre in Glenwood, Durban on Thursday.
Colonel Thembeka Mbele, a KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson, said the complainant alleged that on Thursday at 05:20, he was performing his duties as a hospital security guard at Umbilo area when five suspects alighted from a white Polo Vivo vehicle and Gold Toyota Yaris.
“At gunpoint the suspects proceeded to the hospital. They robbed the nursing staff and the patients of their jewellery, eight cellphones and a laptop before fleeing the crime scene in their getaway vehicle.
A case of robbery was opened at Umbilo police station for investigation.
Some of the patients were already receiving dialysis treatment when the men stormed in.
One of the robbers bit a nurses finger in an attempt to get her wedding ring removed.
A patient who had walked in while the robbery was in progress was forced to lay down on the floor.
Daily News
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Eskom crisis as not just a crisis but a potential disaster – Eskom Price Hike To Cost SA 90,000 Mining Jobs – Unemployment rates to rise, all thanks to Eskom!
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Labor unions have threatened strikes over the job cuts at mining firms as well planned reductions at a numerous state-owned companies. JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s gold and platinum mines will shed around 90,000 jobs in the next three years as above-inflation electricity price increases by power utility Eskom add to already soaring operating costs, an..
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