The Shadow Public Enterprises Minister Natasha Mazzone has grilled Cyril Ramaphosa just hours before the polls open for the 2019 Elections. The DA MP – best known for her firebrand speeches in Parliament – wants the president to disclose more information on the deals to procure “emergency diesel supplies” for Eskom. It’s understood that the..
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The DA’s Natasha Mazzone is highly suspicious of how much money is being spent on emergency diesel at Eskom, urging President Ramaphosa to “come clean”.
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The handling of any electoral material by any party agent is strictly prohibited so the IEC removed an official who allowed a ‘Party Agent’ to assist in transfer of votes (video)
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The Electoral Commission (IEC) has removed a Deputy Presiding Officer from a voting station in Benoni, Ekurhuleni following an investigation into a video showing a party agent assisting with the transfer of special votes. The video below is of Ermelo incident, we could not trace the one for Benoni. So this is how the election..
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2019 Elections News: Not everybody is voting today, let’s have a look at why 9-million eligible voters did not register to cast their ballot
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Current issues that affect their lives was indicated as a reason why they are not voting. The 2019 general elections are less than 12 hours away and right now, there is little else political parties can do to sway voters at the polls. However, the outcome of the elections could be impacted by the non-participation..
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A ballot box was burned in Potchefstroom, vehicle set alight ahead of the general elections
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Potchefstroom SAPS confirmed that a ballot box was burned in the North West region, following the arrest of six individuals for their involvement in the torching of a presiding electoral officer’s vehicle in the Ganyesa ahead of the general elections. Ballot box destroyed in Potchefstroom As reported by Olebogeng Motse from OFM, a ballot box..
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eThekwini municipal workers strike: Councillor blasts city for creating a “humanitarian” crisis
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The municipal workers’ strike in eThekwini has created dire living conditions in Durban, and according to Nicole Graham, the city needs presidential relief. The picture is not looking too pretty in the eThekwini municipality. After an unforgiving barrage of rain in April, operations in the city of Durban have been brought to a standstill yet..
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Just 1 day to go for the 2019 Elections and to make your X, now IEC workers strike threatens to disrupt Election Day
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Bear in mind, it is illegal to strike on Election Day. The Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) is battling to avert disaster, as employees and trade unions threaten to down tools. As 8 May draws ever-nearer, the palpable anticipation is reaching a boiling point, on many intersecting fronts. Political parties have wrapped-up their..
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The 2019 Elections are meant to be a time of renewal and hope, but the UK Foreign Office is keeping its guard up, and they have issued a warning for SA
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With just a few days left until South Africans visit the polls for the 2019 Elections, it seems all the final preparations aren’t just being carried out in Mzansi. The British government (UK Foreign Office) have updated their travel advice for any citizens who are visiting our country over the next week or so. Travel..
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China is holding the ‘switch’ in it’s hand, doing business with them is dangerous, with another Eskom crisis, China withheld the R7bn loan, they already own one Eskom plant, Load-shedding highly possible
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Well, this doesn’t look too clever. It’s reported that Eskom will be R7bn lighter this month, after its Chinese lenders raised their concerns. South Africa could be set for another round of drama from Eskom, as the ailing power utility has reportedly failed to receive R7 billion in loan payments initially set to come from..
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What on earth is wrong with the youth of today:- Mobile classrooms burnt in protest over delayed repairs at Joburg school, the same same school where they burned the mobile classroom
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Mobile classrooms were set alight on Monday morning at Oakdale Secondary School in Ennerdale, in the south of Joburg. Among other demands, the community has been frustrated over delays to repairs to the school’s roof, which was damaged during a storm last year. The roof damage affected four classrooms. Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi was..
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Ace Magashule, ‘The Gangster’, accused of “buying votes” with R400 handshake, I just wonder how many ‘dead people’ will he resurrect with his ‘handshake’ (video)
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Ace Magashule – drowning in corruption allegations already – made a rod for his own back on the campaign trail this weekend, after a sly “donation” to a voter. The campaign trail can be a war zone sometimes. Even an act of supposed generosity can backfire badly, as Ace Magashule has found out this weekend…
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Phakamani Hadebe you need to stop drinking your sangoma beer it’s affecting your brain sells:- White contractors are destroying our substations to get jobs to repair them:- Eskom
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Following the Eskom substation in Randfontein that exploded on Saturday, the power generating company are allegedly blaming white contractors. Making it one of many substations to exploded in a very short period of time. According to Eskom first official statement cause of the explosion was unknown. Now they believe white contractors who are out of..
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#Sh*thole country! Vaal residents are living in their own waste – Raw sewage spills on the streets of Vaal
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For years, the river has been an environmental and health hazard with raw sewage flowing into surrounding areas from various points. Despite the deployment of specialised engineers from the South African National Defence Force, not all sewage sources have been stopped. The Vaal River clean-up project will receive another cash injection. “We are sitting at..
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Do you think that Pravin Gordhan has the Eskom case under control, well think again, report suggests that load shedding is about to get much worse in SA
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As Eskom’s old units go offline and the cost to replace generational capacity soars, the severity of load shedding may well increase over the next decade. If we think we’ve had it bad with load shedding this year, we should brace ourselves for the decade ahead. That’s the message coming from Bloomberg on Monday after..
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The DA burned e-toll documents yesterday, but the Small Business Development Minister tells road users to pay up if they want world-class highways, yeah right as if that is going to happen, they just want to pocket the money
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The e-toll system is back in the spotlight after roads agency Sanral decided to suspend pursuing the collection of outstanding fees in Gauteng. Small Business Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu says that road users need to pay for infrastructure if they want world-class highways but has questioned the current payment method used to collect monies. The..
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SAPD appoints criminals in the force, but obviously their salaries are not enough:- Families pay ‘ransom’ to Pretoria cops for the release of Bangladeshi migrants
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Five police officers have been arrested for their alleged involvement in two cases of human trafficking, kidnapping and extortion. National police spokesperson Brig Vishnu Naidoo said the first incident was on March 27. Ten Bangladeshi nationals who were being smuggled through Zimbabwe into SA were allegedly kidnapped on the N1 by four police members from..
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