Maiden speeches are tricky. They only come once. The one delivered by newly-elected president of the African National Congress (ANC) Cyril Ramaphosa required extraordinary ingenuity. Ramaphosa had to knit together multiple dynamics into a coherent whole. He managed to do this, delivering a speech which largely resonated with the delegates. His maiden address to the..
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To lead South Africa, Ramaphosa must balance populism and pragmatism
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VUT scraps upfront payment for ‘poor’ students
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The Vaal University of Technology and its student representative council (SRC) have agreed that students who come from households with an income of R350,000 and less will not pay registration fees at the beginning of the year. Students from households whose income is more than R350,000 are required to pay R4,000 upfront. This comes as..
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Eskom agrees to lower quality coal from Gupta-owned Tegeta but purchasing it at a more expensive rate
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Eskom has agreed to allow Gupta-owned mining company Tegeta Resources and Exploration to deliver lower quality coal‚ at a more expensive rate‚ to its Hendrina power station in a show of the family’s continued influence at the power utility. Internal documents seen by TimesLIVE record that during negotiations between Eskom chief procurement officer Jay Pillay..
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Over 30,000 Grade 1 And 8 Gauteng Pupils Yet To Be Placed for new school year
Ramaphosa: Taking land will turn SA into the Garden of Eden
Zuma removed as president?
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A parliamentary subcommittee will meet this week to draft procedures to change parts of parliamentary rules to remove a president. The proposal will then be tabled in the parliament for discussion. This follows after the Constitutional Court has given Parliament six months to put in place mechanisms to resign a president. Cyril Ramaphosa seems to..
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Racial tension over new Sasol empowerment scheme
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The industrial giant, Sasol, and Solidarity will meet with the Commission on Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) on Thursday’s on the exclusion of white people in the new empowerment scheme, Khanyisa. Solidarity chief executive Dirk Hermann said if the parties could not reach a settlement, it would be the first time the CCMA issued a..
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Ramaphosa: Taking land will turn SA into the Garden of Eden
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South Africa could turn into the ultimate paradise with the implementation of the policy of expropriation of land without compensation, ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa said in Nongoma, Kwazulu-Natal on Sunday. “In fact, it is possible for us to begin a process of working the land and improving agriculture – making it a very successful factor..
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Will Marxism Destroy Marxist Universities? EFF threatens to bring universities to a complete standstill
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The EFF further threatened universities after their initial call that prospective students should should just show up at their ideal university to register after Jacob Zuma promised free tertiary education. In the EFF’s latest statement, they threaten to bring the institutions to a complete standstill if “walk-in” students are not allowed. According to Peter Keetse..
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Rand is slowly losing steam after realizing there is not much difference between Zuma and Ramaphosa’s policies
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The rand is slowly losing steam after the initial recovery following Cyril Ramaphosa’s election as president of the ANC. All the optimism about a new “president” is slowly decreasing and economists believe that the currency is falling back and aligned with previous dissertations. This comes just after Ramaphosa’s land grab threats to seize land without..
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Total collapse of state-owned enterprises under Minister Brown
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The Democratic Alliance’s Natasha Mazzone has, once again, slammed Minister of Public Enterprises, Lynne Brown. Eskom remains in the spotlight. The Democratic Alliance’s Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises Natasha Mazzone has become quite a political “big name” over the last few months. Her grilling of Lynne Brown during the Eskom inquiry gathered particular attention. Now,..
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Retired couple severely beaten in smallholding attack, Grahamstown
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A team of seasoned investigators spent several hours at a scene of house robbery that took place at a smallholding in Grahamstown on the afternoon of 3 January 2018, where two suspects were arrested on scene. A little after 17:00 local security officers responded to a panic alarm and called on the SAPS for backup…
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Former acting CEO of Eskom’s back at his desk on Monday after ‘sham hearing’
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Matshela Koko, former acting CEO of Eskom will be back at work on Monday January 8 in the role of head of generation‚ according to Eskom spokesman Khulu Phasiwe. The information that Koko had been reinstated was sent in an internal memo from acting CEO Sean Maritz to senior Eskom staff on Tuesday and was..
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It is official – no protection for Afrikaans at UFS
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Chief Justice Mongoeng’s recent statement on the University of the Freestate’s (UFS) language policy (delivered in the colonial English language) reaffirms his hatred against the Afrikaner as it has already emerged in his political ruling on 21 July 2016 regarding the change of street names in Pretoria. Two of his co-rulers Froneman and Cameron judged..
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Blame it on the Gupta’s‚ chirps Mbalula of his Christmas holiday in Dubai
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Police Minister Fikile Mbalula has taken a swipe at those who have questioned his activities in Dubai. According to a location geotag shared through a tweet he posted several days ago‚ Mbalula is in Dubai for the festive season. “Safa ngama Gupta [blame it on the Gupta’s] I pity those who have never been to..
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