JOHANNESBURG – Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi says that his department will protect and defend the Afrikaans language in schools.
The MEC was responding to a report that around 119 schools which were either Afrikaans medium or dual-medium have been changed to English.
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JOHANNESBURG – The National Funeral Practitioners Association of South Africa (Nafupa SA) will be honouring former president Jacob Zuma for his selfless efforts in making South Africa a better country.
The association says that Zuma played a major role economically and socially during his time in office.
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Gambling franchise Topbet says the manager responsible for initiating a strip-search at its Germiston branch has been dismissed with immediate effect.
Topbet has recently come under fire after over 20 female clerks were allegedly forced to undress and be physically inspected on the premises.
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The sight of pale-skinned, blonde children scavenging in a dumping site is not common in South Africa.
But at Klein Akker, it is part of the day-to-day struggle of 72 white people who call a small, run-down patch of land their home.
Situated on the outskirts of Kraaifontein, there is no running water and they have no electricity in their homes.
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More than 27‚500 people‚ including South Africans‚ Americans and Australians have been duped by the one of biggest bitcoin scams to hit South Africa.
Hawks spokesman Captain Lloyd Ramovha on Thursday confirmed that the serious commercial crimes unit was investigating complaints against BTC global‚ a company in which thousands invested cryptocurrency valued at over $50-million by transferring bitcoins into an online wallet address.
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Rudi Gouws appeared tough throughout the Boeremag trial. But on Tuesday, tears shimmered in the bomber’s eyes upon hearing he was sentenced to an effective 25 years in jail.
With muscles bulging from exercising in jail for the past decade and sporting leg irons following his second escape attempt, he was pale as he hugged his family before returning to jail where the man he had followed like a shadow, Herman van Rooyen, waited to hear his fate.
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EFF leader Julius Malema wants to remove Athol Trollip as the mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro on April 6 because he is white.
“Why not [Herman] Mashaba? Why not Solly [Msimanga] and all of that? Because the mayor of [the] DA in PE (Port Elizabeth) is a white man‚” Malema said.
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South Africa, the last sh*thole African domino has fallen despite warnings, just like after Zambia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, etc. etc.
Mark Steyn on Fox News warns of an impending escalation of African migrants to Europe now that the last powerhouse economy of Africa has fallen to greed, despotism and communist totalitarianism. Yet still the USA finances South Africa to the whopping tune of over $300,000,000 in foreign aid every year! The West subsidizes and funds these “sh*tholes”.
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Cape Town – The national government’s departmental “meltdowns” are having a bad effect on municipal budgets and normal services, mayoral committee member for safety, security and social services JP Smith said in Cape Town on Thursday.
“I must just say, for me, there is a pattern emerging,” he said.
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A police officer has described the trauma that he and other officers experienced when they discovered remains believed to be those of Gabisile Shabani‚ a 13-year-old albino girl who was murdered‚ allegedly as part of a muti ritual.
The premises in Emalahleni in Mpumalanga belonged to a traditional healer‚ who was arrested last week.
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Response written by Mark Philip Malcolm Horn – London Barrister. * No one does business with a thief, and no one extends credit to a thief.
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The cost to reinstate the 700 workers who were fired by the Passenger Rail of South Africa (Prasa) after a protected strike five years ago will amount to over R1-billion.
Two weeks ago‚ the Constitutional Court dismissed an appeal by Prasa which had sought to appeal against a Labour Appeal Court judgment last year ordering the reinstatement of the workers.
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The Nelson Mandela Foundation is launching a campaign to declare any display of the old South African flag as a form of hate speech.
Eye Witness News started an online poll about how many South Africans support this idea.
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The National Assembly has just voted in favour of beginning a process so that the Constitution can be amended to allow land expropriation without compensation.
On Tuesday, 324 of 400 MPs sat in the National Assembly to vote on the motion that was brought by the Economic Freedom Fighters.
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The Police in Lulekani outside Phalaborwa have launched a massive manhunt for the suspect(s) involved in the brutal killing of a middle aged woman who was found killed in her bedroom.
It is alleged that in the early hours of 26 February 2018, the deceased was found killed inside her bedroom at Matiko Xikaya village. The body of the deceased was found beheaded by the family who immediately summoned the Police.
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