The recent announcement by the government that the Code for Black Economic Empowerment is adjusted so that at least a quarter of each farm should be black owned in the future if products are supplied to the government, has certain effects on smaller farms with a turnover of R10 million and R50 million. It was..
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Farmers have to cede a quarter of their farms for BEE
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Zuma jnr. is linked with Cape “Mafia”
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It appears that Jacob Zuma’s son, Duduzane, has connections with Nafiz Modack. Modack is involved in the Cape Underground movement, which allegedly extends nightclub owners as part of the overall security oversight of clubs. Modack is currently in custody and in the trial case it is apparent that Modack have ties with head police officers..
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Robbers threaten to push five-year-old girl in oven during house robbery
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Four robbers to push a five-year-old toddler in the oven if the family did not obey their request to hand over valuable items to them during a house robbery. The incident took place on Tuesday morning at 08:45 in Old Inandaweg in Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal. According to a statement from Reaction Unit South Africa (Rusa) on..
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I’m going to walk in at Wits and register for my masters‚ says Malema
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Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says he is planning to stage a walk-in to register for his Masters degree at the University of Witwatersrand‚ in support of his party’s controversial call for prospective students to invade institutions. Malema was speaking on the Polokwane’s urban radio station‚ Energy FM‚ on Monday morning. “Our children..
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VUT scraps upfront payment for ‘poor’ students
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The Vaal University of Technology and its student representative council (SRC) have agreed that students who come from households with an income of R350,000 and less will not pay registration fees at the beginning of the year. Students from households whose income is more than R350,000 are required to pay R4,000 upfront. This comes as..
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Eskom agrees to lower quality coal from Gupta-owned Tegeta but purchasing it at a more expensive rate
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Eskom has agreed to allow Gupta-owned mining company Tegeta Resources and Exploration to deliver lower quality coal‚ at a more expensive rate‚ to its Hendrina power station in a show of the family’s continued influence at the power utility. Internal documents seen by TimesLIVE record that during negotiations between Eskom chief procurement officer Jay Pillay..
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Over 30,000 Grade 1 And 8 Gauteng Pupils Yet To Be Placed for new school year
Ramaphosa: Taking land will turn SA into the Garden of Eden
Racial tension over new Sasol empowerment scheme
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The industrial giant, Sasol, and Solidarity will meet with the Commission on Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) on Thursday’s on the exclusion of white people in the new empowerment scheme, Khanyisa. Solidarity chief executive Dirk Hermann said if the parties could not reach a settlement, it would be the first time the CCMA issued a..
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Israel plans to force out thousands of African migrants
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Israel plans to force tens of thousands of African migrants to leave over the next three months by threatening to arrest those who stay, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday. Under the plan, some 38 000 migrants who entered Israel illegally, mainly Eritreans and Sudanese, will have until the end of March to leave. Each..
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Will Marxism Destroy Marxist Universities? EFF threatens to bring universities to a complete standstill
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The EFF further threatened universities after their initial call that prospective students should should just show up at their ideal university to register after Jacob Zuma promised free tertiary education. In the EFF’s latest statement, they threaten to bring the institutions to a complete standstill if “walk-in” students are not allowed. According to Peter Keetse..
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Rand is slowly losing steam after realizing there is not much difference between Zuma and Ramaphosa’s policies
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The rand is slowly losing steam after the initial recovery following Cyril Ramaphosa’s election as president of the ANC. All the optimism about a new “president” is slowly decreasing and economists believe that the currency is falling back and aligned with previous dissertations. This comes just after Ramaphosa’s land grab threats to seize land without..
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Total collapse of state-owned enterprises under Minister Brown
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The Democratic Alliance’s Natasha Mazzone has, once again, slammed Minister of Public Enterprises, Lynne Brown. Eskom remains in the spotlight. The Democratic Alliance’s Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises Natasha Mazzone has become quite a political “big name” over the last few months. Her grilling of Lynne Brown during the Eskom inquiry gathered particular attention. Now,..
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Retired couple severely beaten in smallholding attack, Grahamstown
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A team of seasoned investigators spent several hours at a scene of house robbery that took place at a smallholding in Grahamstown on the afternoon of 3 January 2018, where two suspects were arrested on scene. A little after 17:00 local security officers responded to a panic alarm and called on the SAPS for backup…
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Former acting CEO of Eskom’s back at his desk on Monday after ‘sham hearing’
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Matshela Koko, former acting CEO of Eskom will be back at work on Monday January 8 in the role of head of generation‚ according to Eskom spokesman Khulu Phasiwe. The information that Koko had been reinstated was sent in an internal memo from acting CEO Sean Maritz to senior Eskom staff on Tuesday and was..
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