The fuel price that will hike further this Wednesday makes the liquid almost as expensive as gold, says consumers mockingly. Wednesday, the price of petrol will increases by R1.34 per liter, and diesel increases by R0.82 per liter, leaving a big hole in motorists budget. The increase is attributable to the weak Rand and the..
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Fuel now more expensive than gold says consumers mockingly
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Wife of South Africa’s ambassador to Germany was found guilty of 15 counts of fraud and nine counts of money laundering
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Portia Sizani, wife of South Africa’s ambassador to Germany and former African National Congress Chief Whip Stone Sizani, was found guilty of 15 counts of fraud and nine counts of money laundering in the Port Elizabeth Commercial Crimes Court on Friday. Sizani defrauded the Eastern Cape education department out of more than R1.2 million by..
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WHO really is in charge?…Ace is the “Secretary General”, but he has more power in the internal workings of the African National Congress (ANC) than Ramaphosa himself. New Dawn?
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ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule has stood at the “head of a well-organised state-capture network” in the Free State for almost a decade. This network has scooped millions of rands of taxpayers’ money in schemes seemingly presided over by Magashule and has allegedly seen people like former president Jacob Zuma, the Gupta family, some of the..
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Zuma Jnr: State withdrew a second charge of culpable homicide – Duduzane Zuma escape prosecution merely because he is being protected due to political connections
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Duduzane Zuma, son of former President Jacob Zuma, appeared in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on 26 March 2019, on a charge of culpable homicide and a charge of reckless and negligent driving. The state withdrew a second charge of culpable homicide after a report from a pathologist indicated that a second victim died of natural..
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30% Pass rate for Maths is starting to show in Pick ‘n Pay’s BEE Policy
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This time Pick ‘n Pay outdone themselves with their latest advertisement. It seems that this very well known grocery store is becoming legendary for making huge blunders with adverts. The latest flyers shows that consumers can now purchase 2 cases of Budwieser Beer with the special price of only R264. The beer was marked of..
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Month-end 33% of teachers in black South African schools are AWOL – Inadequate funding is not the main cause of South Africa’s poor-quality education, the teachers are the problem!
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IMF report slams SA’s education folly – Costly, politically expedient interventions will not fix SA’s dysfunctional education system; we must tackle the root causes of the problem. Without addressing the weak foundations at the primary and secondary school levels, the government’s flagship policy of free tertiary education is likely to deliver disappointing results. At worst,..
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Brace for impact, everybody – Petrol price set for a massive increase – Wonder if there is any truth in the saying, that every time the ANC-regime needs money, they raise the petrol price?
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The forecast for the month ahead is a beast, as the petrol price is set for second consecutive major increase in April. They’ve got us by the gas pumps, here. Data released by the Central Energy Fund (CEF) this week suggests that the petrol price increase for April 2019 could hit South Africa with tremendous..
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Problems at Eskom hit rock bottom – rocks are being sold to Eskom as coal by fraudulent suppliers, poor quality coals the cause of six turbines seizing at power stations
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Load shedding has been an unwelcome visitor to South African homes this year as Eskom continues to fail in its responsibility to keep South Africa’s lights on. A recent discussion on SABC about load shedding highlighted the extent of the problems being faced at the power supplier. These include the poor quality of coal used…
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Forget power cuts. What’s happening to our water supply is much more serious. After two decades of little or no maintenance of municipal sewerage plants, SA is vulnerable to medieval, water-borne diseases and something even more serious: thirst.
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Villages, towns and even a capital city are experiencing severe water shortages, caused by a combination of years of bad management and drought. Many Limpopo villages have no water at all. Kimberley has its water switched off every night. The army is trying to stop millions of litres of sewage from going into the Vaal..
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Consultant turns away customer at SASSA office – Is it perhaps because the customer is white?
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Susan Strydom (66) was turned away on March 19 from Sassa in Springs by one of the consultants when she went there to apply for an old age grant. Strydom says she was asked where she was all along as she is only coming now to apply and also says the consultant told her to..
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President Ramaphosa says white land owners are no longer in a position to resist government’s land reform policies – ANC-regime to pick up the pace of land reform after election
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Ramaphosa was speaking at a government function to hand over title deeds to the Griqua and Khoi communities of Ebenhaeser on the West Coast. The president said it was time for white land owners to cooperate with his administration in changing land ownership patterns and to stop frustrating the process. He said the new administration..
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West Rand District Municipality that flout regulations by ploughing R77m into VBS can’t pay their 458 employees salaries this month
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The West Rand district municipality is one of 15 municipalities which made deposits with now-bankrupt VBS Bank despite an instruction from National Treasury forbidding them to do so. Municipal workers at the West Rand District municipality on the outskirts of Johannesburg were left in the lurch on Monday after not being paid their salaries. The..
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Pandemonium brakes loose at China Mall – Woman falls to her death in an attempt to escape violent protesters in Durban
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Chaos erupted in the area on Sunday night, when a mob of 100 people burnt and looted local tuckshops.
A man was shot dead and two others wounded after shop owners allegedly opened fire on the mob.
Violent action continued into Monday morning, when roads were blocked off and tyres were set alight.
According to Rescue Care’s Garrith Jamieson, on 25 March 2019, a female, believed to be about 45 years old, fell to her death when she plunged through the roof of a building at China Mall in Inanda Road, Durban. Jamieson said the female was allegedly trying to runaway from incensed protesters when the tragedy occurred.
She fell approx 3m to her death. Paramedics arrived to find her in a state of cardiac arrest. The patient sustained critical injuries and was declared deceased on scene.
It has not yet been established whether the woman was a shop owner or an employee.
Two men who were also trying to escape the mob on the roof also fell through and suffered s
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Armed gangs now target Health Care centres – Five armed men rob Durban kidney patients undergoing dialysis
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Staff and patients were held up at gunpoint at the Kidney Care Centre in Glenwood, Durban on Thursday.
Colonel Thembeka Mbele, a KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson, said the complainant alleged that on Thursday at 05:20, he was performing his duties as a hospital security guard at Umbilo area when five suspects alighted from a white Polo Vivo vehicle and Gold Toyota Yaris.
“At gunpoint the suspects proceeded to the hospital. They robbed the nursing staff and the patients of their jewellery, eight cellphones and a laptop before fleeing the crime scene in their getaway vehicle.
A case of robbery was opened at Umbilo police station for investigation.
Some of the patients were already receiving dialysis treatment when the men stormed in.
One of the robbers bit a nurses finger in an attempt to get her wedding ring removed.
A patient who had walked in while the robbery was in progress was forced to lay down on the floor.
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Eskom crisis as not just a crisis but a potential disaster – Eskom Price Hike To Cost SA 90,000 Mining Jobs – Unemployment rates to rise, all thanks to Eskom!
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Labor unions have threatened strikes over the job cuts at mining firms as well planned reductions at a numerous state-owned companies. JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s gold and platinum mines will shed around 90,000 jobs in the next three years as above-inflation electricity price increases by power utility Eskom add to already soaring operating costs, an..
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