Statement issued by: Eskom Media Desk: Eskom notes with concern the industrial action by trade unions and advises customers to plan on the assumption that load shedding could take place in the week. Monday, 30 July 2018: Eskom notes with concern the ongoing industrial action by trade unions at various Eskom sites, over the issue..
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Eskom: Load shedding, industrial action, intimidation, sabotage
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Three of the VBS execs provisionally sequestrated, Vele liquidated
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Provisional sequestration orders have been granted against three businessmen in the VBS Mutual Bank fraud saga.
Vele Investments, VBS’s main shareholder, has also been liquidated.
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SAPD officer found drunk, passed out and armed at Durban Mall
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Acting KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi is keenly following a probe into the conduct of one of his officers who was found seemingly intoxicated at Durban’s Pavilion shopping centre. It is understood that the officer‚ of the Westville police station‚ was found asleep on the floor at the centre on Thursday last week. Pictures of..
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Raw sewage openly flows into Vaal River
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The Vaal River is in a terrible condition, with pollution and raw sewage causing people to get sick and fish to die, residents are urging the government to take action. With so many people potentially affected, the question remains – do people really know what’s in the river? According to the group Save the Vaal,..
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ANC have a habit of electing terrible people – Tshwane ANC chair facing “abuse” scandal
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The Tshwane ANC is now also facing questions over who it elected to the role of chairperson. Somewhat unsurprisingly (in terms of ANC members) the chair is now facing more than one serious accusation. ANC Tshwane regional chairperson Kgosi Maepa has been accused of swearing at and threatening violence against his own ANC comrade, Simphiwe..
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Vicki Momberg has been granted leave to appeal prison sentence
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The former Durban estate agent, and convicted racist, Vicki Momberg, has been granted leave to appeal her sentence by the Randburg Magistrate’s Court. Following her racist tirade directed towards Johannesburg law enforcement officials in 2016, Momberg appeared before the same court and was convicted late last year. Magistrate Pravina Rugoonandan sentenced Momberg to three years..
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Confirmation from Treasury – Eskom looting was an inside job
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The noose is tightening around senior Eskom officials already implicated in looting with further evidence of the underhanded tactics used to benefit the infamous Gupta family, revealed on Sunday.
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ANC looks to China for election strategy and tactics
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The ANC is looking East and bringing in the Chinese to provide lessons on propaganda and discipline ahead of the 2019 general poll, which is considered the governing party’s most testing election since 1994. ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule told the party’s communicators at a strategy workshop held at Luthuli House two weeks ago that they..
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Hlaudi Motsoeneng: ‘I will be president’
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Disgraced former SABC boss Hlaudi Motsoeneng has a brazen vision of his future: He will be South Africa’s president. Speaking at the 70th birthday of Zulu monarch King Goodwill Zwelithini on Friday at the Enyokeni Palace in Nongoma‚ northern KwaZulu-Natal‚ Motsoeneng said he was watching the current batch of leaders – and was very underwhelmed…
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Gautrain passengers have been left stranded as strike looms
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Gautrain passengers are being urged to make alternative transport arrangements tomorrow as workers will go on strike. Negotiations between the Mbombela operating company and unions broke down following weeks of talks. The service has lines from the Johannesburg through to Hatfield as well as to OR Tambo International airport. Gautrain spokesperson Kes Nayager says to..
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So world here is our beloved country…a rainbow nation in despair!
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Dear World. This is South Africa. A beautiful place where firestations, schools, buildings, vehicles and busses are set a light. Where service delivery is poor because of a lack of proper knowledge. Where our government is corrupt and pushes taxes up so we pay the money which was stolen by our president. The only country..
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Train burning saga – is there more that meets the eye?
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I knew that this whole “Train Arson” thing was serious but I honestly did not know exactly how serious until I read an article by iOl News. After pondering over it a bit I came to the realization that everyone knows THAT it is happening but NO-ONE KNOWS WHY !!! This whole “Train Burning” phenomina..
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You’re paying more than double what you should for electricity in SA
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Energy expert Ted Blom says that South Africans are paying more than double what they should be for electricity in the country, and it’s funding Eskom’s corruption and mismanagement. Eskom this week reported a loss after tax of R2.3 billion for the year ended March 31 from a profit of R900 million 12 months earlier…
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Jacob Zuma’s legal options unpacked
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Judging by former president Jacob Zuma’s new defence team’s choices, his constitutional right to a fair trial may feature prominently in his defence strategy.
Zuma is set to appear in the high court in Pietermaritzburg on Friday (July 27) on 16 charges of fraud and corruption.
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Sex education taken too far – 27 Pupils At Limpopo High School Pregnant
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The Limpopo Basic Education Department says its concerned that 27 pupils at the Molautsi Secondary School situated just outside Polokwane are pregnant. Fourteen of them are in grade 12. Earlier this month, Gauteng Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa visited an 18-year-old who’d given birth to triplets at Seshego Hospital. Both she and the father of the..
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