A massive petrol price increase is expected to hit South Africa in April, says the Automobile Association (AA) of South Africa. It’s not an April fool’s day prediction; the petrol price will be going up again next month. While consecutive fuel hikes have become the beleaguered norm in South Africa, April’s looming rise is expected..
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Double trouble for South African motorists, you can expect a massive petrol price increase in April, warns AA
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SAPS want to beefs up the police force with 5 000 new promising recruits, but, they threaten to strike too
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Saps welcomed the injection of new recruits from its BPDL programme. The South African Police Service (Saps) revealed, on Monday, that through its basic police development learning programme (BPDL), it has welcomed 5 000 new recruits into its ranks. But with the new recruits the other Police officers want to strike, please read our Afrikaans..
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Just something to think about with regards to SA taxes that will leave you shocked!
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Taxpayers should not foot the bill for ANC government’s failures. We need to look deeper into our system of government, and how we allocate risk and reward, responsibility and accountability. At this moment, if you earned R100, you pay R33 income tax. You are left with R67. You buy R67 worth of fuel, pay 48%..
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ESKOM gives a US company a blank cheque, and they are cashing it in for a whooping R13bn
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The US company that designed the extremely flawed Kusile Power Station in Mpumalanga was given a blank cheque by Eskom, which it cashed in to score R12 billion. Despite the fact that the engineering consulting firm Black & Veatch, which is situated in Kansas in the US, delivered shoddy work that continues to hobble Kusile’s..
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The corrupt ANC government plans ‘could collapse pension funds, with pensioners dying poor’
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The party’s manifesto hints at targeting pensions through prescribed investments, ‘which will see half the population’s money used to bail out failing entities like Eskom’. The prescribed investments for pension funds hinted by the ANC in its 2019 election manifesto could lead to the collapse of South Africa’s pension funds and pensioners dying poor. Explaining..
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Members of parliament accuse Eskom of holding SA hostage and trying to enforce money from taxpayers who are already suffering from the heavy debt of the ANC government
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Zukiswa Rantho, who led the parliamentary inquiry into Evkom’s problems, made up the former Eskom boss, Matshelo Koko, in parliament as a “servant” of the Gupta’s. She pointed him out as a liar and a possible criminal. Several speakers in parliament once again pointed out that Eskom is holding the country hostage and trying to..
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ANC-regime is blatantly misusing our money on its own election campaign, the Free State SOPA expenditure is going to cost the taxpayer more than R2 million
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The Free State’s State of the Province Address (SOPA) will probably cost taxpayers more than R2 million. The greater part of the expense was not budgeted for nor planned and yet the money has already been squandered without the necessary approval. The extravagant expense becomes even more unacceptable and fruitless when one takes into account..
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So Zuma is living a lavish life on taxpayers’ hard-earned money! – Taxpayers have to fork out nearly R1m for Zuma’s air transport and cell phone account since he was removed from office as SA’s president
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Taxpayers have forked out just under R1m for former president Jacob Zuma, his spouses and support staff’s transport and phone bills in the first nine months of his departure from office. President Cyril Ramaphosa revealed in a response to a parliamentary question published on Thursday that the state paid R150,668.38 for Zuma’s flights between February..
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To start the new year ESKOM appointed new senior management staff, but is the load-shedding holiday over?
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Eskom intensified its plant maintenance and fast-tracked the recovery of stock levels from December 13 to January 13, when there was a low demand for electricity.
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The DA vow to jail Jacob Zuma “for 15 years” if they win the 2019 Elections, maybe it its just an elections tool.
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Could Jacob Zuma be jailed until he turns 90? A proposal made by the DA ahead of the 2019 Elections has revealed how long they believe JZ should spend behind bars.
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More borrowing, Eskom secures R1.5 billion loan from French Development Agency, they are so deep in trouble, how on earth will they pay it back?
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The utility’s Group Chief Executive, Phakamani Hadebe, said the multi-tranche loan facility will contribute to Eskom’s plans to strengthen and refurbish the transmission infrastructure.
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BREAKING NEWS:- Jacob Zuma WILL pay his own legal costs and here is why the courts decided enough was enough
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Judge Aubrey Ledwaba has spoken: In his scathing judgement, he lists his reasons why Jacob Zuma must return the total cost of his legal fees.
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BREAKING NEWS:- Eskom’s application to increase electricity tariffs by 15% open to public debate, now is the time to take a stand!
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It’s important to note that Eskom’s application for a 15% tariff increase is over and above the 4.41% raise already granted to the utility by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) earlier this year.
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Another bottomless-pit namely the SABC, were given three months to live as government cuts cash injections
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Unfortunately for the SABC, and its large low-level employee base, the government is now taking a hard-line approach to bailouts.
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Shocking news, Eskom’s big coal whopper and they would like to point the finger to you the consumer for using too much electricity
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There is no shortage of coal, as Eskom claims. Instead, the coal is piling up at the mines, uncollected by the utility, Anna Marth Ott, CEO of Middelburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said yesterday.
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