Once upon a time, more than a quarter of a century ago, Port St John was a lovely tourist town on the East Coast of South Africa…a place of breathtaking beauty, scenes of nature to inspire the artist and orderly, maintained lovely buildings speaking of a proud history and a bright future.
And then African democracy arrived….
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A controversial R570-million Free State dairy project was riddled with irregularities, investigators for the national treasury have found.
Exclusive material from the investigation shows that the treasury launched a full-scale investigation of the Estina dairy following several Mail & Guardian exposés about it in mid-2013. The reports suggested the deal with Estina – a company without agricultural experience and led by a computer sales manager – flouted treasury rules and was designed to milk provincial government coffers.
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Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane has been accused of interfering in a mine sale by giving instructions that his preferred BEE partner be chosen over other prospective partners.
Zwane is said to have told a Chinese-led consortium to overlook one of the prospective BEE partners in favour of another. The identity of that partner is not known.
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The City of Cape Town believes that saboteurs are to blame for a spike in vandalism of public transport related infrastructure.
Last night, two MyCiTi stations were vandalised in Dunoon and Usasaza.
Modified tanker trucks are at the center of a new wave of drug smuggling into and through South Africa as well as movement of illegal arms and ivory from and out of Zimbabwe, a Khuluma Afrika investigation has established.
This was discovered after a fuel tanker truck was hijacked just after the South Africa – Mozambique border post. The hijackers reportedly took the truck to a secluded farm believed to be their ‘extraction’ point only to find out the vehicle barely had fuel, and the tank had been modified.
Rustenburg-A case of house robbery was opened after a protester gained entry forcefully and took liquor.
A bottle store was looted in Rustenburg in the North West on Friday when protesters went on the rampage blocking streets and threatened to set alight the local magistrate’s court building.
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No arrest after attack on ANCWL leaders house
Police spokesperson Adele Myburgh said a case of malicious damage to property was opened.
RUSTENBURG – No arrests have yet been made after African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) Kenneth Kaunda regional secretary Kedibone Chabalala’s house was stoned and damaged, North West police said on Friday.
Police spokesperson Adele Myburgh said a case of malicious damage to property was opened.
ANCWL provincial secretary Bridgette Tlhomelang said Chabalala’s home in Khuma township near Stilfontein was stoned on Wednesday morning around 2am.
She said unknown people threw stones, breaking windows in the process.
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The State of the Nation address was not the only major event postponed this week. The ANC has also postponed its visit to Nelson Mandela’s Qunu homestead in Eastern Cape to lay wreaths at his grave this weekend.
It was agreed with family at Qunu last month that the laying of wreaths would take place on February 11‚ the day Mandela was released from Robben Island where he served his sentence for terrorism and treason charges.
Instead‚ the ANC’s leadership will be in the Western Cape to commemorate the day.
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After consumers had boycotted the Spur restaurant group, which resulted in several branches closing their doors after their racist behaviour, the same consumers threatened with two more boycotts.
Readers of the Afrikaans Family Magazine, Huisgenoot, are highly shocked at the magazine’s extremely positive report about the soon to be third child of white and Afrikaner hater Julius Malema . Malema is notorious for singing songs such as “Shoot the Farmer” and the like, and readers believe he deserves no place in an Afrikaans magazine, especially because it is so positively presented.
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On Wednesday morning, Baleka Mbete was asked in an eNCA interview how President Jacob Zuma “seemed” when she broke the news to him that he would not be permitted to address the House.
“He looked like the ordinary Jacob Zuma,” she responded, “always ready to laugh at life.”
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It now seems a matter of ‘when’ and not ‘if’ President Jacob Zuma will step down. With ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa and other members of the top six reportedly frustrated by their efforts to get Msholozi to step down gracefully,these are the options available to them.
Vote of no confidence
Zuma’s enemies have previously sought to topple him with parliamentary votes of no confidence.
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Should Jacob Zuma heed calls for him to step aside as president of the country‚ he will be entitled to his salary and most of the perks he enjoyed in office – for the rest of his life.
He would be paid his annual R2‚989‚845 salary after stepping down‚ be provided with security and an official vehicle‚ an office and a secretary and be entitled to free domestic flights on the national airline.
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Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) has approached the Constitutional Court asking it to give an order that the company is not prohibited from participating in tender processes for the payment of social grants
In papers dated February 6, CPS has applied for an interlocutory application to clarify or the change the order granted by ConCourt on March 17 last year.
This order extended CPS’s contract with the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) for another year for for the agency to find a new solution for the payment of grants.
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Eikenhof Dam in Grabouw, South Africa, started releasing its water to the City of Cape Town at 11 am this morning, according to Elgin resident Cathy Shaw. Shaw uploaded the following video, saying: “This is what 10 000 cubic litres per hour looks like!”
The Groenland Water Users Association in the Overberg is releasing between eight and ten million cubic metres of water – which is about a billion litres of water – into the Western Cape supply network.
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