A boulder-sized asteroid designated 2018 LA was discovered Saturday morning, June 2, and was determined to be on a collision course with Earth, with impact just hours away. Because it was very faint, the asteroid was estimated to be only about 6 feet (2 meters) across, which is small enough that it was expected to safely disintegrate in Earth’s atmosphere. Saturday’s asteroid was first discovered by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey, located near Tucson and operated by the University of Arizona…
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Close Call: Tiny Asteroid Discovered by NASA on Saturday Disintegrates Only Hours Later Over Southern Africa (Video)
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KZN village in the grips of ‘gold rush’- ‘Probably fool’s gold‚ but they are desperate’
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A cloud of dust flies upward as Nontutuko Shebi strikes at the bedrock of the “Marikana” quarry‚ her hand clutching her hammer as each blow joins the clinking chorus of tools against rock that echoes all around her.
Her nine-month-old daughter Okuhle – bound closely to her mother with a blanket – is unperturbed by each strike.
Shebi has come to the shale quarry set in the hills of rural southern KwaZulu-Natal hoping that “gold” locked in the hillside may change the destiny of her youngest child‚ otherwise bound for a life of poverty.
The mother of four‚ who lives in KwaMachi‚ like hundreds of others‚ believes that gold has been found and‚ with it‚ wealth and prosperity is close at hand.
KwaMachi resident Thulani Ncayiyane‚ 28‚ said that roadworkers had first made the discovery last week.
They had‚ he said‚ used the shale to surface rural roads and stumbled on the “gold”.
“There were trucks working then. They wer
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ANC intend to start a process to nationalize the Reserve Bank of South Africa – Here Comes The R200 000 000 Note
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ANC general secretary, Ace (the Free State-milkman) Magashule, announced that, not only does the ANC intend to start with expropriation of land without compensation within the next week or two, but that they will also start a process to nationalize the Reserve Bank of South Africa.
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Watch: Malema admits black people are not native to South Africa
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In this video by Willem Petzer we see a clip where Julius Malema, the leader of the EFF admits that black people are not native to South Africa. And this from someone who is advocating the killing of the boers (farmers), Boers being a broader term for the whites in the country.
What must we do with these ‘whites’, minister?
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Gerhard Papenfus, the chief executive of the National Employers’ Association of South Africa (NEASA), has written an open letter to Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant
Dear Minister
Since I am “white”, I take note when you talk so boldly about “whites” being the stumbling block in terms of your transformation agenda. I write this letter to you in order to get clarity.
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Jacob Zuma’s new ‘apostle army’ to launch new party
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A lobby group backing Jacob Zuma is pushing ahead with a plan to form a new political party aiming to weaken the ANC enough at the polls for the former president to potentially return to power.
Their move ends several months of speculation that some of Zuma’s backers were planning to undermine President………..
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Deputy principal of Joburg High School addressed the issue of “white privilege – but what about “black privilege?
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The deputy principal of the Jeppe Boys High School in Johannesburg delivered a speech to the pupils last week in which he addressed the issue of “white privilege.”
Amongst other things, mr Kevin Leathem said:
“Imagine playing a video game where the save function was disabled and you were unable to accumulate experience points. That’s what it was like being black during apartheid. No matter how hard you worked, or how much money you earned, you couldn’t own land, businesses, or homes. You couldn’t buy your kids a safer suburb to grow up in or buy them a better education. Every generation started back at zero. Being white was like being the only one with a save function.
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WSU Student In Nsfas R14m Bungle Makes First Court Appearance – Pay back the money sister
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Over a period of three months in 2017, Sibongile Mani spent about R800,000 of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme money she erroneously received.
A Walter Sisulu University student who spent a portion of R14 million that was mistakenly deposited into her account has appeared in court on theft charges.
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History will now become a compulsory subject in High School – Will it be abused as a political propaganda tool?
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Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga will on Thursday release the ministerial task team report into the possibility of introducing history as a compulsory subject in grades 10‚ 11 and 12.
At present‚ pupils take history to grade 9 and are permitted to drop it in grade 10.
The plan has been criticised in some quarters‚ with some fearing that history will be abused as a political propaganda tool‚ as in Zimbabwe‚ where the history syllabus in government schools is reportedly biased in favour of the ruling Zanu-PF.
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VIDEO: Footage of assault at local primary school shocks parents
Tshwane Mayor Solly Msimanga Survives Hijacking
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Robbers made off with Tshwane Mayor Solly Msimanga, Mercedes-Benz early on Saturday morning. Msimanga was targeted while leaving a restaurant in Midrand.
He says he was confronted by two armed men and that he wasn’t with his bodyguards.
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What a disgrace -Only one drug testing kit left in Gauteng
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Out of the 143 police stations in Gauteng, only one has a drug testing kit.
From Actonville SAPS to Zonkizizwe Police Station, there are roughly 143 police stations in Gauteng, according to the SAPS official website.
Only one of these stations is equipped with a drug testing kit. This is according to MEC for community safety Sizakele Nkosi-Malobane, Kempton Express reports.
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Robber’s chilling words – ‘I will shoot you. It is a job’
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“I will shoot you. It is a job. It is how we eat to get bread on the table.”
Those were the chilling words of a former armed robber who was interviewed on M-Net’s Carte Blanche programme which aired on Sunday.
If I see a gun I will run out‚ or if I have mine‚ I will shoot you first. I am not going to hesitate I will shoot you first.
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Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema on Wednesday again issued a call to poor black South Africans to occupy unused land illegally
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Speaking in Parliament during the presidency budget debate, Malema said he had initially told supporters to scale down land occupations after the ANC supported a move to expropriate land without compensation to end South Africa’s skewed land ownership patterns. The opposition leader said Ramaphosa had since made “wishy-washy” statements on the matter.
“Our people must continue to occupy land. This land belongs to us and if the ANC wants to kill our people for rightfully claiming their land, do so
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National Prosecuting Authority must be queried if more farm murder cases are withdrawn
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The murder cases against three of the eight men suspected of killing the Coligny farmer Hannes Christie (65), who was murdered on the farm Vlakfontein near Coligny in North West in February 2018, were withdrawn today, 21 May 2018.
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