A Special Investigation Unit is currently investigation more than eleven contractors whom are suspected of robbing the power utility of billions of rand. The contractors looted R130 billion from Eskom during the construction of the two new power stations, Medupi and Kusile as well as the Ingula power station. From the so-called “inner circles” it..
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During the ANC regime, roughly R500 billion has been looted by Eskom contractors, which partly explains why South Africa is in such a big financial mess – it is unsure if the culprits will be brought to justice
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Biggest technical training university in SA is on the verge of collapse due to chaos and corruption
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The Minister of Education and Authorities was asked to investigate allegations of fraud, death threats, corruption and nepotism at the Vaal University of Technology (VUT). VUT is currently one of the largest technical training universities in the country with 20,000 students. Allegations of conflict between high-ranking officials have long been made in press reports. According..
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SA Power Ball may be corrupt – initially it was announced that the R232 million had not yielded a winner and a few days later, they sudden announced a winner announced – majority of people are now starting to assume that this is a bluff game
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South Africa’s people are apparently tired of participating in the so-called “Power Ball” gambling game which is allegedly just a money making scheme. The gambling house announced that a record amount of R232 million could be won, and initially announced that the “prize money” had not yielded a winner. A few days later it was..
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Members of parliament accuse Eskom of holding SA hostage and trying to enforce money from taxpayers who are already suffering from the heavy debt of the ANC government
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Zukiswa Rantho, who led the parliamentary inquiry into Evkom’s problems, made up the former Eskom boss, Matshelo Koko, in parliament as a “servant” of the Gupta’s. She pointed him out as a liar and a possible criminal. Several speakers in parliament once again pointed out that Eskom is holding the country hostage and trying to..
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Numsa wants Gordhan’s head over extraordinarily high escalation costs at new failed power stations – according to Gordhan, power stations are “poorly designed and poorly erected”
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Trade union Numsa demanded that the Minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Gordhan, be dismissed for the extraordinarily high escalation costs at the Medupi and Kusile power stations. The construction cost has doubled to almost R292 billion and both power stations are described as “poorly designed and poorly constructed” by Gordhan. Earlier, it was confirmed that..
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All five campuses of the Durban University of Technology’s academic programs have been “temporarily” suspended after ongoing student protests
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Lectures at all five campuses of the Durban University of Technology’s academic programs have been “temporarily” suspended due to ongoing student protests.
Opinion polls believe it is time for government to include higher education institutions that are unproductive and destructive.
Meanwhile, seven students have been arrested at the Mongosuthu University of Technology in Durban for damage to property.
The vandalism at Durban’s educational institutions has led to chaos over the past month, and many students have sustained injuries after they hit the police.
The original article can be read in Afrikaans on Die Vryburger
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Economist says Zuma government cost taxpayers about R470bn – What a waste of good money!
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Nedbank chief economist Dennis Dykes says the Zuma regime has cost South Africa R470bn. Dennis Dykes says they have done a thorough calculation that is South Africa’s loss due to corruption, maladministration and distorted policies in Jacob Zuma’s second term. He says there was an estimated loss of R140bn due to taxes lost and now..
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Illegal land grabs take place in Durban after hundreds of people who are fed up with slow pace of housing delivery allocated plots themselves and start building shacks
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Fed up with the slow pace of housing delivery, hundreds of people have invaded vacant state land earmarked for a low-cost housing project in the Cato Crest informal settlement in Durban.
The residents descended on land in Mary Thipe Road, which boarders Mayville and Manor Gardens, on Monday and Tuesday and started clearing the bushes and allocating themselves plots to start building shacks.
While many residents were not willing to be interviewed or photographed, Happy Zwane told TimesLIVE that she was clearing the bush so that she could build her two children a home to leave them with when she dies.
“I have two children and I’m not married and I want to clear a plot for them so that when I die they would have a place to live. I don’t have a place of my own because I don’t own the place I live in. So I want to live my children with a home,” she said.
Others complained about being used as voting fodder by political parties and blamed the ANC for failing to de
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WATCH | Nearly 50 pupils crammed into taxi – doing it the South-African way!
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The pupils were “literally sitting on top of each other” in the 16-seat capacity Toyota Quantum, which was spotted by law enforcement on Monday at the intersection of Standford Road and Ditchling Street in Port Elizabeth. Video footage of the children being removed from the vehicle has surfaced on social media. Nelson Mandela Bay Metro..
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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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SA characterised by chaos and violence – Angry protesters barricaded roads with burning tires and set bus alight in Eastern-Cape
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Protestors in the Gelvandale and Bethelsdorp area barricaded the main roads with burning tyres and stones on Stanford Road, Gail Road and other roads in the Helensvale area and in Bethelsdorp, since 06:00 on 19 February 2019. Public Order Police have been deployed in the areas of Bethelsdorp and Gelvandale and 5 protesters were arrested…
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ANC transformed the country into a disaster! In ANC-terms, the list of “transformational successes” is mind blowing, particularly seen in the context with the obsession with race representation at all costs, especially with regard to experience and skills
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After 25 years in office, the parliamentary debate on the transformation of South Africa’s economy to serve the nation is nothing more than an admission by the ANC that it failed miserably as the country’s government and that its harmful policies merely contributed to the destruction of our economy. The ANC did indeed transform our..
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Eskom and SA are paying an expensive price for ANC’s Affirmative Action Policy – white experienced and knowledgeable engineers are missing from the state entity and now experts have to come from abroad to save Eskom
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Eskom and the government’s unwavering attitude to applying Affirmative Action (RA) is now costing South Africa. Due to RA, experienced and knowledgeable engineers have left Eskom and now the Minister of Public Enterprises, Mr. Pravin Gordhan, are asking them to help save Eskom. The Freedom Front Plus has long warned that RA is harmful to..
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ANC-regime is blatantly misusing our money on its own election campaign, the Free State SOPA expenditure is going to cost the taxpayer more than R2 million
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The Free State’s State of the Province Address (SOPA) will probably cost taxpayers more than R2 million. The greater part of the expense was not budgeted for nor planned and yet the money has already been squandered without the necessary approval. The extravagant expense becomes even more unacceptable and fruitless when one takes into account..
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Major traffic warning – Johannesburg is closing down the M2 highway for repairs – SA roads and bridges are facing a crises due to lack of poor maintenance
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The City of Johannesburg has announced that it will close down the M2 highway as it begins major rehabilitation plans. In a press conference on Monday (18 February), the Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) said that it would close down the motorway between the Crown interchange and Maritzburg Street from 28 February 2019. “The closure is..
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