Cash-strapped SA Airways is to get a R10-billion bailout through the sale of the government’s multibillion-rand stake in Telkom, parliament was told on Wednesday. DA MP Alf Lees dropped the bombshell in the National Assembly during question time with Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa when he presented a cabinet memorandum leaked to him as a member..
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SAA to get R10bn bailout from sale of government stake in Telkom
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Black “farmer” who Received a R15 MILLION Grant from ANC regime Leaves Thousands of Chickens to Starve and be Culled
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Thousands of chickens will be culled, due to starvation and disease after the owner of a Southport farm in Kwazulu-Natal failed to feed them for weeks and abandoned the farm after selling off what movable assets were able to be sold. The SPCA, which is monitoring the situation twice a day, received a complaint last..
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Can of worms opened after Grace Mugabe has received immunity
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A parliamentary inquiry is likely, after International Relations and Co-operation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane gave Mugabe immunity in the wake of an alleged assault International Relations and Co-operation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane quietly granted Grace Mugabe diplomatic immunity on Saturday, potentially opening up the second legal can of worms for the country in as many years. A..
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Deputy Higher Education Minister Mduduzi Manana resigns after assault charges
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President Jacob Zuma has confirmed that he accepted Manana’s resignation and thanked him for his contribution during his term in office. Deputy Higher Education Minister Mduduzi Manana has resigned. President Jacob Zuma has confirmed that he accepted Manana’s resignation and thanked him for his contribution during his term in office. Manana recently admitted to assaulting..
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National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete in hot water over secret ballot choice
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ANC chairperson and National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete could face sanction from her own party for allowing the motion of no confidence against President Jacob Zuma to be conducted by secret ballot. The Mail & Guardian has learned that the ANC’s top brass, particularly those in Zuma’s camp, are furious with Mbete for her secret..
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Comes as no surprize – CONFIRMED: Minister Nkoana-Mashabane granted Mugabe diplomatic immunity
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Johannesburg – The Department of International Relations and Cooperation has confirmed that Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane had granted Zimbabwe First Lady Grace Mugabe diplomatic immunity. Mugabe is at the centre of an assault claim in South Africa. “I hereby recognise the immunities and privileges of the First Lady of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Dr Grace Mugabe,”..
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Broke Jacob Zuma Foundation dumps university students
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President Jacob Zuma’s foundation has run out of money and cannot pay university fees for students it promised to fund. The Sunday Times has established that the Jacob G Zuma Foundation admitted this year that it was unable to honour bursaries for at least 30 students. In a January letter to the University of Zululand,..
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R150-million “winter challenge” bonanza considered by bankrupt Eskom – Please tell us where you will get the money from?
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Cash-strapped Eskom is considering paying its employees a R150-million “winter challenge” bonus for avoiding power cuts, a move that has been slammed by Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown. The submission comes a month after the power utility reportedly paid R4.2-billion in performance bonuses to staff, and two months after Brown approved bonuses totaling R13-million for..
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Anti-apratheid cleric Allan Boesak: The ANC sold out
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South Africa’s negotiated settlement was a secret pact between white and ANC elites, which excluded the black majority who had sacrificed so much during the struggle for liberation. So says anti-apartheid cleric Allan Boesak, who spoke to City Press in Cape Town about his new book, in which he decries former liberators who adopt the..
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Zuma not invited to celebrate SA Communist Party’s 96TH anniversary – It comes as no Surprise!
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The South African Communist Party (SACP) is hosting celebrations to mark its 96th anniversary in Galeshewe in the Northern Cape on Sunday morning. General Secretary Blade Nzimande will be the key note speaker at the event. The party says the rally will also be addressed by representatives from alliance partners and the Young Communist League…
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Outspoken ANC MP Makhosi Khoza Sacked
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The ANC has removed outspoken MP Makhosi Khoza as the chairperson of Parliament’s Public Service and Administration committee citing an irretrievable breakdown of relations. This comes just two days after five of her comrades boycotted a meeting she chaired, claiming that they could not be led by someone who had breached the ANC constitution. In..
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SARS feeds Guptas and ANC
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A Parliamentary Question from the FF Plus regarding complaints received from the taxpayer (SARS) since the tax ombudsman came into existence indicates that everything is not well in SARS and that this service can become less and less trusted in dispute with Taxpayers themselves. Adv. Anton Alberts, the FF Plus parliamentary spokesman for finance, asked..
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South Africa: Former Lipton Tea Plantation Collapses Under Inept Black Management
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More than 2,000 workers have lost their jobs in the latest South African “land reform” project—which seizes white farms and hands them over to Africans—as one of the country’s largest tea plantations, formerly run by Lipton Teas international, has totally collapsed into weeds after less than ten years in black hands. The collapse of the..
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Minister Bathabile Dlamini Talk before you Dr….UHM, Th-ink, again?
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Minister Bathabile Dlamini, among other things also president of the ANCWL, put her foot right in her mouth again. She reacted to accusations about the ANCWL not condemning the actions of Deputy Minister Manana who appeared in court last week for assaulting a woman. Dlamini says she is not going to react to it because..
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Dlamini-Zuma: Radical economic transformation ‘pro-South Africa not anti-white’ – It is not what your comrades states!
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ANC presidential hopeful Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has rubbished accusations that calls for radical economic transformation are tantamount to anti-white sentiment. Dlamini-Zuma said the policy of radical economic transformation was in fact “pro-South Africa“. Dlamini-Zuma was speaking on Friday at an event hosted by the Progressive Professionals Forum in Woodmead‚ north of Johannesburg. She advised white people..
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