The large number of people applying for asylum permits at the under-resourced Port Elizabeth Refugee Reception Office means that many are being turned away without getting the permits. The office was reopened to new asylum seekers in October 2018. It followed years of legal action, public outcry and civil society activism after the office was..
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Looks like refugees coming to SA is on the increase? – New PE refugee centre struggling to cope with large number of applicants applying for asylum permits
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“Take note liberal, take note. Your friendship is not welcome!” This after the leader of BLF, Andile Mngxitama had tweeted the following: ‘My machete won’t hesitate’
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Front Nasionaal SA makes a valid point: “Take note liberal, take note. Your friendship is not welcome!” This after the leader of BLF, Andile Mngxitama had tweeted the following: “Very interesting, just met this white chap who says he understands and respects what BLF stands for. He basically would do the same if he was..
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Every political party has their own idea of redistribution of stolen land – DA wants to give the land to black people
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Everyone has a better plan for redistribution of land! What about the only honest plan when you want to obtain something that belongs to someone else: Work until you can afford it and then make an offer and buy it. You can call it “redistribution” 1000 times a day – everybody knows it is merely..
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R22 million Lottery grant from the NLC hijacked
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When Takalani Tshikalange set up a non-profit organisation in rural Limpopo in 2012 to help people with HIV she hoped to make a real difference. But despite her best intentions, Denzhe Primary Care failed to take off. The organisation lay dormant for four years. Then, out of the blue, Tshikalange received an SMS alert from..
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School Education in SA – Sex for marks and cash: Matric girl pregnant, 3 teachers suspended
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A matric girl pregnant and three teachers suspended, as pupils claim one teacher slept with several girls Education authorities are investigating a sex-for-marks scandal after three teachers were suspended last week. The teachers are believed to have had sex with at least 10 schoolgirls at a rural Eastern Cape school, the name of which is..
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Reiger Park on the East Rand is “closed” – the so called tire gang is on the loose again,chaos and violence now rule the new SA where mayhem and destruction is the order of the day
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Reiger Park on the East Rand is “closed”. All access roads are barred with traditional burning tires, stones and wood stumps. The community forum declared that people were marginalized and that delivery and development projects had to be addressed. The government is called upon to fulfill their duty. Meanwhile, protesters in Kempton Park torched three..
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Cyril Ramaphosa signs National Minimum Wage Bill to uplift the country’s working poor who earn below R20 an hour – What about old age pension Mr President, can’t you increase that as well?
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Employers who are unable to pay the minimum wage due to constraints in their businesses will be eligible for exemptions. President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the National Minimum Wage Bill, which is expected to benefit about 6-million workers that currently earn below R3,700 a month when it comes into effect on January 1 2019. Business..
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Durban beach-front degeneration exposé – “Guess Carte Blanche’s camera footage is blowing it out of proportion then” is the typical response from ANC Mayor’s office!
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Durban – The city’s Golden Mile – stretching 6km along the beachfront from Blue Lagoon to uShaka – came under the spotlight this week in a Carte Blanche exposé showing how drug addicts and vagrants have hijacked some of the city’s most valuable sites.
With about 1million visitors expected to descend on the city this festive season, it is expecting to receive at least a R2.4billion cash injection over December and January.
However, the investigative journalism TV series reported that robberies, stabbings, drug dealings and pollution threaten to scare away visitors.
The programme’s recent feature showed how heroin needles and shards of broken glass from bottles smashed to make crack pipes can be found on the sandy shores, alleys between hotels and street corners meters away from the Golden Mile.
But the city says that it is making a concerted effort to ensure that beaches are properly maintained, and that it is speaking to NGOs about ways to deal with th
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Yet another farm attack occurred the last few days – Farmer attacked, tied up, house ransacked, Groblersdal
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A farm attack took place on 23 November 2018, at 23:00 in the Klein Waterfontein farming area in Groblersdal, Limpopo province. Four suspects with balaclavas, who were possibly armed with knives overpowered a man, who was alone when the attack happened. The man, a farmer had just returned from his late night farming responsibilities, was..
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Experts have sounded the alarm that the city of Johannesburg is on the brink of an unprecedented disaster with illegal miners blasting only metres away of highly flammable gas and fuel lines under the city
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Experts have sounded the alarm that illegal miners are blasting to within metres of highly flammable gas and fuel lines under Johannesburg. Despite warnings that the city is on the brink of an unprecedented disaster, the government has shrugged off desperate calls by city officials to step in and avert the potential catastrophe. Should one..
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South Africa is in shambles since ANC- regime is totally incompetent to work with money, spending more than R296 million of taxpayers money unnecessarily over the last five years
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The Auditor General found that government has wasted at least R296 million at national, provincial and local government levels over the past five years. Unauthorized, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditures incurred resulted in huge money losses the last years. There was a 121% increase in irregular expenditure, and a 68% increase in unauthorized expenses. About..
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Double standards at SAPS – Attack at doctors living quarters get more attention than gruesome farm attacks and murders
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An attack on doctors’ quarters, where no person is killed, leads to a R100,000 reward by SAPS for information about the attackers. Farm attacks where people are murdered, tortured and raped do not receive a response from security circles for rewards. The attacks on doctors are not condoned, but it is called for equilibrium in..
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Elderly woman cruelly attacked by barbaric terrorist in small town Reddersburg
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Warning: Photo’s not for sensitive readers: An elderly woman from Reddersburg in the South Free State are currently recuperating at close relatives in Bloemfontein after being cruelly attacked at the shop she managed for her daughter. Erica Kleinhans, 51, tells her mother, Poppie Lennox, 78, was alone in her shop on Monday afternoon, “A young..
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Farm attack : Elderly woman brutally stabbed during invasion attack by terrorist in Mpumalanga
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A farm attack took place at Renosterkop which is close to Nelspruit, Mpumalanga Province. The attack was reported by Ian Cameron of AfriForum on 22 November 2018. Two attackers stabbed an elderly woman (69) during the attack. It is reported that only a mobile phone and tablet were stolen. The woman was transported to hospital..
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Like Spur, Discovery will find out that racial discrimination does not work
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Discovery’s plan to allocate ten percent of its shares to black clients at no cost under the smoke screen of empowerment is nothing but blatant racism. In essence, Discovery’s idea to establish a new bank is a good one seeing as it will encourage competition in the banking industry. It is just a shame that..
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