Home Affairs Minister Hlengiwe Mkhize has announced the department’s Director-General Mkuseli Apleni, has been placed on precautionary suspension as of Monday. The minister announced the suspension in a terse, one-line statement on Monday afternoon.The sanction was confirmed in a one-sentence statement released by Mkhize without any reason given. Apleni’s tenure at the department of Home..
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Home Affairs Director-General placed on ‘suspension’ without any reason given – Government is hiring and firing again
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Zumas house of cards tumbling around him
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On this day in 2008, the then ANC national executive committee (NEC) met to deliberate on the controversial Nicholson judgment. The die had already been cast. Outside the Pietermaritzburg High Court a week earlier, the then ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema had declared “the problem in the country is Thabo Mbeki and his people”…
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‘The new Guptas’ score billion-rand deal
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South Africa’s “new Guptas” — former jailbirds Gayton McKenzie and Kenny Kunene — are being lined up to be BEE partners in a multibillion-rand gas deal. The pair, said to enjoy a cosy relationship with President Jacob Zuma, travelled to Russia three weeks ago to sell themselves to Russian company Rosgeo as possible BEE partners..
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Can we believe this: ‘I didn’t conspire with Zuma’ – Mkhwebane
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Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has denied conspiring with the presidency and State Security Agency‚ saying her office remains independent. In papers filed in the High Court in Pretoria‚ the Reserve Bank accused Mkhwebane of meeting with President Jacob Zuma’s office and the State Security Agency before releasing her report on missing apartheid funds. The report..
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Minister’s Benz: Going… going … gone …. for R10!
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A Mercedes-Benz sedan belonging to Defence and Military Veterans’ Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula was sold for a lousy R10 during an auction in King William’s Town on Thursday morning. This after it was placed under the hammer after Mapisa-Nqakula had failed to settle a R50000 debt to a King William’s Town garage which had worked on..
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“I’VE DONE NOTHING WRONG” -CLAIMS FAITH MUTHAMBI ON NEPOTISM
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The Public Service and Administration Minister confirmed to MPs on Wedesday that nine family members were employed to work in her office. Minister Faith Muthambi has told Parliament she doesn’t see anything wrong with hiring relatives to work for her. The Public Service and Administration Minister confirmed to MPs on Wednesday that nine family members..
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Johan Rupert: “Radical economic transformation is just a code word for theft”
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South Africa’s richest man Johann Rupert said “radical economic transformation,” the policy championed by the country’s President Jacob Zuma to reduce racial inequality, is no more than theft. “Radical economic transformation is just a code word for theft,” Rupert said on the sidelines of Richemont’s annual general meeting in Geneva on Wednesday. “That’s what’s happening..
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ANC Parliament Members lives in fear of Malema and now ask for protection
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Members of the Parliament representing the ANC are afraid of Julius Malema and his 24 parliamentarians and now ask for protection, said the speaker, Baleka Mbete. Baleka made the comment yesterday and apparently referred the matter to a committee to set up and to look after members’ safety. Her comment was made in Pretoria in..
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SAA cash crunch deepens as suppliers have still not been paid
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South African Airways (SAA) appears to have exhausted its available cash reserves following news that suppliers have still not been paid for work done in July. The airline has thirty-day terms with a number of suppliers that provide essential services to it. They had not been paid at the end of last week, a week..
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Zuma: Struggle For Black People Not Over Yet- Black People Must Not Be Victimised For Speaking Their Minds
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President Jacob Zuma has called on black people to learn from Steve Biko and to speak their minds without any shame. On Tuesday, the president commemorated the 40th anniversary of Biko’s death in Pretoria. The president says that black people must not be victimised for speaking their minds. “If you are black, you do what..
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Unemployment fund’s assets currently valued at R110bn – Hopefully the government will keep their hands off
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The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) currently has assets valued at R110-billion‚ Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant disclosed on Monday. In a written reply to a parliamentary question by Democratic Alliance labour spokesman Michael Bagraim‚ Oliphant said that while the projected monthly contributions from September 1 2017 to August 31 2018 were expected to total R1.58-million‚ the..
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Colonialism is back with a vengeance in South-Africa
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We are slowly becoming used to Julius Malema and other like-minded, equally foolishly misguided, individuals who catches a word, has no concept of its meaning, and then decides to use it to suit their own purpose and interpretation. Colonialism is the latest. Destroy statues, it reminds us of colonialism. Rename towns, it reminds us of..
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Jacob Zuma is not wrong – the ANC is being destroyed by witchcraft and ghosts in the Western Cape
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Why has the ANC failed to take back the Western Cape from the Democratic Alliance? Jacob Zuma isn’t sure‚ but he has a pretty good theory: witchcraft and ghosts. Speaking to a Rent-A-Crowd in the Strand yesterday‚ the Guptas’s head butler warned that the witches and ghosts who had won the province for the opposition..
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Minister has already been absent three times
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The Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa, did not appear for the third time before the parliament’s portfolio committee. On Tuesday, she had to explain how and why unlawful expenditure incurred with the premature termination of SA Weather Services chief executive officer’s contract. The lady received a salary for nine months despite the..
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ANC’s fight to the death – Welcome to the dirty war!
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Welcome to the dirty war. Welcome to the age of untruths, half-truths, fake news, manufactured scandal, smear, slander and lies. Welcome to South Africa as the weak, dying governing party, the once-glorious ANC, continues to eat itself up. We all knew that President Jacob Zuma’s supporters within the ANC and in the government and “independent”..
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