Over 100 trade union members from farms across the Western Cape gathered for the Fourth Commercial Stevedore Agricultural and Allied Workers Union (CSAAWU) National congress. The two day conference in Surrey Estate, which started on Friday, will consider climate change, women and youth on farms, migrants, and the proposed minimum wage amongst other things. CSAAWU..
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Unions call for R8,500 instead of R3,000 for farm workers
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Mbalula issues call-up for more than 600 former ‘freedom fighters’
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The minister of police has called up 600 members of the so-called non-statutory powers (NSM) after a meeting on Friday. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss promotions and possible fears that Mbalula wants to “buy” such loyalty for the December ANC election as well as the 2019 election. The call also includes members..
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Man rescued after horrific ordeal – ‘They wanted my body parts’
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When Mzwandile Ntuli woke up naked, bound and bloody in a strange bathroom in Albertville, Johannesburg, all he could do was scream for his life. Ntuli, 27, was kidnapped on Friday afternoon in Hillbrow by four men who bundled into the boot of a white car. He claimed he was sedated and severely assaulted. Ntuli..
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Pravin Gordhan’s event ruined by ‘Poo throwing’ incident
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A “poo throwing” incident has marred an address scheduled to be delivered by former minister of finance Pravin Gordhan in KwaDukuza on Sunday. Gordhan was scheduled to speak at the Stanger Siva Sungum hall when two men allegedly from the local ANCYL dumped two buckets filled with faeces at the entrance but, following the discovery..
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Eskom witnesses refuse to testify against Koko
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Eskom witnesses have reportedly declined to testify against former chief executive Matshela Koko at the internal disciplinary hearing against him, making way for him to be possibly reinstated. Eskom’s prosecution case against Koko came to a halt at the weekend after its evidence leader Cassim Moosa told chair of the disciplinary hearing advocate Mzungulu Mthombeni..
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Maimane urges Metsimaholo community to vote ANC out once and for all
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DA leader Mmusi Maimane has urged residents of the Metsimaholo municipality to kick the ANC out of power there once and for all when they vote in the upcoming by-elections. Twenty-one wards will be contested for on Wednesday. This after the municipality’s former coalition government was dissolved in July. “On Wednesday you, the people of..
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Gigaba: SA To Raise Revenue By R15bn In 2018’s Budget To Curb Debt
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South Africa will implement spending cuts of R25 billion rand and raise revenue by R15 billion in next year’s budget to contain growing debt, Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba told Parliament on Wednesday. Gigaba said the extra R40 billion, or 0.8% of GDP, would be used to tackle rising public debt which otherwise could balloon beyond..
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VICIOUS ATTACK ON ELDERLY WOMAN – ATTACKER BITES FINGERS TO GET RINGS
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Knysna News: A Narnia Village woman was viciously attacked by a man she called a “yellow-eyed animal”, who tried to bite the rings off her fingers on Sunday morning 19 November. A shaken Ethne Hillhouse this week said her sunny morning turned into a sudden brush with death when the man appeared from nowhere. She..
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KZN ANCYL leader ‘brutally assassinated in front of family’
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An ANC Youth League deputy secretary in KwaZulu-Natal’s Moses Mabhida Region has been shot dead, the provincial ANCYL said on Thursday. Sthe Mhlongo, who was also a PR councillor in the Umgungundlovu district, was shot at his home in Mpophomeni, outside Pietermaritzburg, at about 02:00 on Thursday morning. He died shortly after arrival at the..
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City Of Cape Town Mayoral Office Spat Reveals Millions Lost, Tender Irregularities
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Patricia de Lille’s top aid has accused her of refusing to investigate the irregularities raised by forensic audits into tenders of the Transport and Urban Development Authority. CAPE TOWN – Millions in losses and tender irregularities have been exposed in the City of Cape Town as a spat in the mayor’s office has spilled over..
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ANC regime is the reason why South African citizens live in poverty
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Two equal evils, poverty and inequality lie at the root of South Africa’s economic problems. Both should be treated equally. If the focus is only on inequality, it will create an economy where everyone is equally poor, except the elite which holds power, said adv. Anton Alberts, chairman of the FF Plus. Adv. Alberts said..
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Lesufi must stop harassing Afrikaans schools in Gauteng Province
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The FF Plus in Gauteng said that the Gauteng Education MEC, Panyaza Lesufi, must stop picking on Afrikaans schools in the province. This was in response to the latest incident in which the MEC attacked Primary School Danie Malan, situated in Pretoria North, in the media and on social media on account of its language..
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Don’t be fooled by Ramphosa’s ‘New Deal’ or NDZ’s ‘radical economic transformation’
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It is now abundantly clear that the race to succeed Jacob Zuma as ANC president next month is between his deputy, Cyril Ramaphosa, and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma — the president’s former wife and preferred successor. No one else matters. All our attention should be focused on these two. Not that the other supposed candidates for the..
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Mob attack alleged child rapist after cops ‘fail to arrest him’
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An alleged child rapist from Delft was assaulted by an angry mob on Monday after an 11-year-old girl was attacked. Residents say police failed to arrest the 32-year-old man for an entire day after the case was reported and he was subsequently assaulted in the street and a tyre placed around his neck. The girl’s..
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Bob is out, will it be Zuma’s turn to go?
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Jacob Zuma and the ANC regime must note that voters’ patience is a hanging on a thread if they are the victims who are living in poverty because of their government’s corruption and power abuse. The peaceful revolution of Zimbabwe can easily float to SA. This was the FF Plus’s leader, Dr. Pieter Groenewald point of..
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