Swimming, surfing and fishing have been banned in Durban due to raw sewage in the water. Hundreds of thousands of litres of raw sewage is flowing into the port every hour. The eThekwini municipality’s health unit, on Thursday, ordered the City’s parks, recreation and culture department to ban all bathing on Durban’s beaches until further..
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Sh*thole country? – Swimming, surfing and fishing banned in Durban due to raw sewage in water – surf contest, been called to protect the safety and health of surfers
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Anger at poor public service delivery in SA townships: ‘If this is freedom, then I don’t want it,’ says Eastern Cape granny –But still the majority people are voting for the ANC
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Eighty-year-old Nothembinkosi Nontsasa cuts a defeated figure, sitting outside her crumbling home in Dlibona village in the small Eastern Cape town of Flagstaff, GroundUp reports. Her adult children can’t get IDs, so the family of six survives off her old age pension. Family and neighbours say the government has failed her, as she lives in..
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Crime does not discriminate in SA – A traumatic altercation in with armed robbers has left Saftu’s general secretary and his wife in “desperate need of counselling
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A “harrowing” run-in with eight armed robbers has left SA Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi and his wife Noluthando in “desperate need of counselling”. That’s life, unfortunately,” Vavi tweeted on Sunday following the incident on Friday evening in Morningside Manor, Johannesburg. The armed robbers beat up two security guards before entering..
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Anc Shrinks In Parliament – From 249 Seats To 230, losings 19 seats in all – Ramaphosa, must be pleased with his poor performance and weakened representation in the National Assembly?
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In the 2014 general elections, the party won a total of 249 seats, meaning in the 2019 elections, it lost 19 seats. The African National Congress (ANC) has bagged 230 seats in the National Assembly following South Africa’s sixth democratic elections. Speaking in Pretoria on Saturday, the Independent Electoral Commission chair Glen Mashinini announced the..
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Resentment starting to soar as UFS beckoned to remove the statue of Pres. Steyn from its Bloemfontein campus – To remove a heritage resource just to adapt to a specific group’s subjective opinion cannot erase the past
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AfriForum and various other conservation organisations, including the Bloemfontein Cultural Association, the Association for Christian Higher Education in Bloemfontein and the Gereformeerde Geloof Bond (which includes congregations across South Africa and to which 32 congregations are affiliated), on 10 May 2019, objected to the issuing of a permit by the Free State Provincial Heritage Resources..
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Online admission of learners suspended due to the current system that seems to be too complicated for a certain part of the population
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The Department of Education suspended its online registration system for parents until May 20 because the current system is apparently too complicated for some of the population. A simplified system will be made available after May 20, in which a step by step will be guide will be available to lead through application process. The..
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South Africa Re-elects A Corrupt, Racist, Incompetent, Nepotist ANC Again! White Guilt No Longer Required, Poverty is What The People Want!
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As South Africa teeters on the brink, it re-elects hopeless ANC again! Do we now finally admit that post-apartheid South Africa has totally failed at its role as Africa’s shining light of a liberal multicultural democracy? While it is not the European white man’s job to tell Africans how to manage their rich and spectacular land or who to vote for, it is our duty to be honest with them if we think they have lost their way.
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ESKOM are not just ‘killing consumers’ anymore, animals are being electrocuted after Eskom power line collapses in the Kruger National Park
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South African National Parks (SANParks) on Thursday confirmed that an elephant, giraffe, and a vulture were electrocuted in the Kruger National Park (KNP). The incident took place at Shingwedzi section in the north of the KNP. The animals were electrocuted after an Eskom power line collapsed on Tuesday night. The section ranger was notified of..
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Just in: ANC majorities “wobbling” – support dips below 50% in Gauteng, coalition on the cards
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Well, it has been coming: The ANC flew out of the blocks in Gauteng when early results were counted on Thursday, but their support in the province has slowly etched away as more ballots have been tallied in the past 24 hours. They’ve now fallen below the 50% mark for the first time, indicating that..
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ANC regime losing popularity and is expected to give 5 to 6% support to other parties
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The ANC will still be the country’s ruler for the upcoming 5-year term, but whether they will still hold the post after that is doubtful. Although all the votes have not yet been counted, it becomes clearer that Cyril Ramaphosa’s regime has reached a low in popularity and is expected to give 5 to 6%..
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Traitor de Klerk declares that all isn’t doom and gloom in SA and if ANC wins and Ramaphosa keeps his promises, things will get better
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Former president FW de Klerk believes things are not all doom and gloom in South Africa, and has backed President Cyril Ramaphosa to uplift the nation if the ruling party retains power. De Klerk cast his vote in Sea Point, Cape Town, on a wet and rainy Wednesday morning. In a very brief interview with..
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We can expect some ‘rumble in the Government jungle’ with people that want to ‘disrupt’ the ‘Circus programs’ in Parliament, that will be EFF MP vs. BLF (video)
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There is little love lost between the two parties despite them both wanting to expropriate land without payment from white landowners. A screenshot of a conversation that allegedly took place on Tuesday night between senior EFF member Nazier Paulsen and a BLF member suggests that the sixth democratic parliament may be as violent as the..
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Russians allegedly plotted to sway elections in SA in favour of the ANC party
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Russian specialists purportedly planned a disinformation campaign to tarnish the images of the DA and EFF in a bid to influence the elections in SA. The Guardian reported on Wednesday that documents – seen by the publication and the Daily Maverick – were prepared by an organisation linked to a St Petersburg businessman with ties..
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Outdated devices used in South African elections for years, are not linked to a central online system -Cope’s Deidre Carter says her ID was scanned at four different voting stations
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On Wednesday 8 May South Africans took to the polls in the 2019 elections. Reports are growing of voters describing how easily the ink was removed from thumbs, and cases of people attempting to vote more than once. Cope’s Deidre Carter talks to CapeTalk’s Lester Kiewit about problems she experienced with both ink and the..
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