Another race row has rocked the DA after senior party leaders took Mmusi Maimane to task over his comments on “white privilege”.
But this time Maimane is feeling the heat from his three most senior colleagues in Parliament. Some party insiders allege they mounted an “orchestrated attack on him” during a heated caucus meeting on Thursday.
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A leading businessman apparently assaulted a woman who was pregnant at Steers in Ruimsig on the West Rand. He smacked her against the breast, slapped her through the face and on the stomach and through her over the restaurant’s chairs.
The incident happened at a parking lot situated in the Featherbrooke Village shopping center last Wednesday.
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Inwoners van die Bolandse dorp, Paarl, het oor die afgelope ure mekaar behoorlik in die hare gevlieg oor een van die oudste tradisies in die dorp.
Die Paarlse Toringkerk dateer van 1875 en is die kerkgebou met die hoogste toring in die land. Onder die oud-leraars van die kerk tel ook die Taalstryder, SJ du Toit.
Die klok in die toring dui al vir die afgelope eeu elke halfuur die tyd van die dag aan en die klokgelui op ‘n Sondagoggend is een van die kenmerke van ‘n stil Bolandse dorpsoggend.
Nou nie meer nie. ‘n Jaar of drie gelede het ‘n jonggetroude paartjie ‘n huis naby die kerk betrek. En nou is die gelui van die klok vir hulle so ‘n stoornis dat hulle ‘n ou wet aangehaal het waarvolgens die decibelvlak van die klokgelui té hard is en geëis dat die gelui daarvan stopgesit word. Tensy daar ‘n plan mee gemaak kan word, mag die klok van die Toringkerk nie meer lui nie.
En daaroor is die dorpenaars nou hoog die h
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King Goodwill Zwelithini is getting more money. KwaZulu-Natal Premier Willies Mchunu announced during his budget vote for the 2018/19 financial year in the provincial legislature in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday that the Zulu monarch’s annual budget has been increased by R7-million‚ from R58.8-million last year to R65.8-million this year.
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Verskeie paaie in die Kaapse metropool, insluitend Jakes Gerwelrylaan en Highlandsrylaan in Mitchells Plain, is Woensdagoggend weens protesaksies gesluit.
Volgens Wayne Dyason, woordvoerder van Kaapstad se wetstoepassingseenheid, is ’n kitsbank, vrugtestalletjie en motor Woensdagoggend vroeg aan die brand gesteek.
Nóg ’n kitsbank is gevandaliseer en ’n winkel en taxi is met klippe gegooi.
Dit was vroegoggend nog nie duidelik waaroor die protesaksie gaan nie.
*Daar was vroegoggend ook betogings in Eldoradopark en Soweto in Gauteng weens ontevredenheid oor voorafbetaalde elektrisiteitsmeters, maar gemoedere is teen 9:00 gekalmeer.
DieKaap.com
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Here follow excerpts from the speech delivered by FF Plus MPL, Tammy Wessels, in the Free State Legislature during the budget vote debate of the Free State Department of Agriculture.
During the budget vote debate of the Free State Department of Agriculture, all the ANC members of the Legislature who participated in the debate referred to the white oppressor, the farmers who stole the land from black people and they blamed white monopoly capital for all the ruling party’s shortcomings.
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The Gauteng Education MEC was left shell-shocked when he walked outside his office to find peopling “hanging” a doll of him.
South Africans are furious after a tweet from Gauteng Education Minister Panyaza Lesufi went viral for all the wrong reasons. While the issue involves Lesufi, the fury is definitely not directed at him.
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Resigned Steinhoff chairperson, Christo Wiese, has lodged a claim of R59-billion against Steinhoff International. In a statement released on Thursday afternoon Wiese’s Titan Group, announced that it had served a summons on Steinhoff for the amount which related to investments made into the retailer in 2015 and 2016. In one case, companies in the Titan..
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Former President Jacob Zuma has reportedly questioned why it’s taken the country so long to introduce free higher education for poor and working-class students.
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Municipal workers returned to work in Port St Johns on Monday after an on-off strike which has lasted seven months, leaving the town strewn with garbage.
Municipal workers had been on an intermittent strike since last year, demanding the dismissal of the municipal manager and the implementation of wage promises they say were not kept. According to South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) spokesperson Andile Bara the problems started in 2013 when seven SAMWU shop stewards were fired after a strike over wages.
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The FF Plus is pleased that today the Constitutional court ruled in favour of the Transnet pensioners seeing as the matter became a matter of faith for many of the approximately 40 000 impoverished pensioners who are suffering greatly.
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The South African Revenue Service has for the second time allowed a multi-million-rand VAT repayment claimed by a Gupta-owned business to be paid to a third party, court documents show.
Times Select has learned that, on April 11, SARS made a payment of R89-million, meant for Optimum Coal Mine, to a third party, a company named In House Wages.
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The SABC spent more than R680‚000 on the travel costs of board members and officials to testify before a parliamentary ad hoc committee‚ only for some to refuse to testify once they got there.
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Thousands of workers marched through JHB on Wednesday afternoon. Protesters say the working labour force simply can’t accept the minimum wage.
South African Federation of Trade Union (Saftu)’s Zwelinzima Vavi says workers will occupy major cities across South Africa if government refuses to listen to their objections to the proposed labour laws.
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