Johannesburg High Court ordered the controversial black political group EFF, to pay R500,000 for defamatory and false statements they made towards former finance minister Trevor Manuel. The EFF was also ordered to remove all statements about Manuel from its media platforms regarding the new SARS commissioner. Manuel was accused of nepotism and corruption on the..
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EFF must cough up and pay R500,000 to Trevor Manuel for defamation of character
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Zama-Zama’s blamed for murder of young couple on the Putfontein off-ramp on the N12
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As police continue to hunt for the killers of a young couple who were shot in their vehicle, allegations are that the perpetrators could have been illegal miners operating in the area. This comes after it was alleged that the killers ran towards the direction of an abandoned mine after the attack. A post on..
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179 attacks and 20 farm murders in 2019 – Rape, burned, shot dead … How do we fight back?
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Last week, a 17-year-old teenager near Fochville was raped and seriously injured. A man was burned with an iron, and the week before that, Liezel Wessels was burned with boiling water and stabbed with a knife shortly before her husband, Tool Wessels, was murdered. This week South Africa continued to stumble upon the news of..
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Employees of SA’s second largest medical aid administrator, to embark on a strike
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A strike is looming at health risk management services provider Medscheme where members of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) plan to down tools on Thursday. In a statement, Nehawu said the company had refused to implement an agreement reached on the introduction of a performance management tool. “Medscheme had agreed to..
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See where your money goes! – R50 million a month is spent on salaries of 400 MP’s, some of which are sleepy in parliament, or just stay at home and do nothing on a working day
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The previous National Assembly speaker, Baleka Mbete, who was widely regarded as a somewhat inept person for the post she held, was worth R2,825,470 a year, amounting to a monthly fee of over R235,000. Then there is the deputy speaker who carries a R1,977,795 a year home that amounts to about R165,000 a month. The..
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Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s Nightmare – Position as Public Protector at Risk Due to Deceptive Reports
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The Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, probably has sleepless nights and a lot of nightmares over her own report condemning Pravin Gordhan. If the court case from Pravin Gordhan instigates to honor his name after the OB has accused him of unlawful conduct in her report, it could mean the end of her career. She has..
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Ramaphosa’s cabinet is smaller – Zuma’s 36 ministers are reduced to 28, 50% of cabinet members are women
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The ANC president, Cyril Ramaphosa, announced his new cabinet which is considerably smaller than the one with which Zuma bankrupted the country. What is surprising is that Ramaphosa has appointed his benefactors, with or without clarity of their innocence. Mabuza is the deputy president because during the ANC meeting, Ramaphosa was elected president by giving..
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Former farm worker raped farmer’s wife in front of children – We were hunted like animals, says mom in Hankey farm attack
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A Hankey mother felt like she and her three children were being “hunted like wild animals” the night a lone attacker broke into their farmhouse. Testifying in the Port Elizabeth High Court on Tuesday, the 44-year-old woman recalled the screams of her children and the terror on their faces as a former worker fired shots..
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17-year-old disgruntled pupil who stabbed teacher to death after failing grade 7 gets 12 years in jail
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A 17-year-old school pupil who stabbed a teacher to death in the Northern Cape was sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment on Monday by the Khathu High Court. The pupil stabbed his teacher with a knife at Manyeding Village near Kuruman in January 2018 after having failed grade 7, according to police. The teacher was attacked..
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WATCH| Elderly woman knocked down by kitchen staff at care home and left on floor in pain
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An elderly woman underwent emergency surgery and is temporarily in a wheelchair after a kitchen worker at a care home has knocked her down, she was left helpless with a broken hand on the floor. Elize Devenish’s (79) family filed a charge of assault with police after a kitchen worker at Ons Tuiste in Engo’s..
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Why must it always be a black and white thing? – SATAWU strike against salary differences between black and white mariners will shut down Transnet ports across SA
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The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) said on Tuesday its members would shut down the country’s ports on Thursday as part of a strike against salary discrepancies between black and white mariners. Negotiations between the union and the Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) collapsed this week. If the strike goes ahead it..
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Controversial ANC Member, David Mabuza finally inaugurated MP and may be appointed as Ramaphosa’s deputy
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David Mabuza is inaugurated as a member of the parliament, and there is a big possibility that he will also be sworn in as deputy for Cyril Ramaphosa. This follows after the ANC’s integrity committee found that Mabuza did not commit him to embarrass the party. He asked for a postponement to be inaugurated because..
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Nearly Half of Households in SA on Welfare – Rainbow Nation has become welfare state with over 45% of households relying on SASSA
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More than 17 million “residents” of South Africa are currently receiving government grants. According to Statistics SA, more than 45% of households are dependent on state grants. The rainbow country has become a well-being country and this means, among other things, that more and more non-marital children are growing. Western Cape households are dependent on..
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Corruption on corruption, R3.9 billion missing – PIC managing government workers’ savings cannot determine where funds are
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The never-ending spate of corruption incidents in South Africa are being disclosed one after another. The Public Investment Corporation (PIC), which is Africa’s largest resource manager, apparently found no trace of documents to indicate how and why an amount of R4bn was invested in the obscure oil company affiliated with the ANC and Jacob Zuma…
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SA liquidations increase by over 53% – economy’s poor performance is attributed to power supply, violence conditions, strikes, corruption, etc.
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While the ANC president, Cyril Ramaphosa made huge promises of foreign investors and many jobs for the 28% who are looking for jobs and not getting, new setbacks are coming to the surface. The number of liquidations recorded in South Africa has increased by 50% during April this year, indicating the real state of the..
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