South Africa recently hosted a Jobs Summit that brought key stakeholders –government, business and labour – under one roof to find better ways of tackling the country’s stubbornly high unemployment rate. Anchored by the country’s President Cyril Ramaphosa in his new broom sweeps clean posture, the summit promised a lot but delivered very little substance…
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ANC-regime’s jobs summit promised a lot but delivered very little
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After 25 years white South-Africans are blamed for the failure of the Rainbow nation – But why?
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White South Africans are often accused that their “sense of superiority”, their “white privilege” is the reason why the multiculturalist New South Africa and the Rainbow Nation is a failure. It is unwillingness of the white man to share property and wealth that is the cause of all the misery. Now, if we look at..
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Once again taxpayers will have to pay for the sins of the ANC-regime – SAA, Post Office and other ailing SOEs to receive billions in cash-bailouts
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Finance minister Tito Mboweni has announced a R9.1-billion bailout of struggling state-owned companies such as national carrier SAA and regional airline SA Express. In his first medium term budget policy statement to parliament on Wednesday‚ Mboweni announced that the troubled SAA would once more be recapitalised by the taxpayer to the tune of R5-billion. This..
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Service delivery in SA at its best! – It took the SA Post Office 81 days to deliver a letter, which should take only 3 days
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A recent MyBroadband test showed that it took the South African Post Office (SAPO) 81 days to deliver a letter between two locations 48km apart. The letter was sent on 27 July 2018 from the Jeppestown Post Office in Johannesburg to the Lyttelton Post Office in Centurion – and was received on 16 October 2018…
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Forget Sars – SAPO is worse – R4-million salary for SA Post Office exec who can’t even keep a website online
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Many South Africans have expressed outrage at Sars chief officer for digital and IT, Mmamathe Makhekhe-Mokhuane, earning over R3 million a year. The anger comes after Makhekhe-Mokhuane made headlines following her appearance in an SABC TV interview. Makhekhe-Mokhuane was on SABC News for an interview about Sars’ IT systems, but spoke about Sars bursaries for..
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DA is very ‘confident in finding success’ in challenging Malusi Gigaba and Bathabile Dlamini reappointments
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The Democratic Alliance (DA) says it is confident it will succeed in legal challenge of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s reappointment of Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba and Minister in the Presidency Bathabile Dlamini.
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Ace Magashule ‘gives away’ Pierneef painting worth more than R6m
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The Hawks are investigating the alleged theft earlier this year of a painting by South African landscape master JH Pierneef from the office of Ace Magashule while he was still the premier of the Free State, the Daily Maverick reported on Monday. The painting, apparently worth between R6m and R8m, was placed among Magashule’s personal..
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Over indebt consumers will now have to fork out even more for electricity – Cash strapped Eskom applies for 15% tariff increase
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Eskom has asked the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) for a 15% tariff increase for the next three years, beginning 2019-2020, the utility announced on Friday. While Nersa, which will hold public hearings and evaluate the application, seldom grants Eskom its full request, Eskom’s application indicates that double-digit electricity increases will very likely continue..
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Thank you ANC-regime! – South Africa has the highest youth unemployment rate of any other country in the world
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According to a report published by The Economist’s Pocket World in Figures, South Africa has the highest youth unemployment rate of any other country in the world. While South Africa’s dismal unemployment rate across the board has remained a cause for great concern, the statistics revealed in Pocket World put the country’s youth unemployment rate..
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Do the ruling communist ANC government actually think that by removing guns will stop crime in South Africa?
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The ruling communist ANC government in South Africa wants to disarm the public meaning … the government wants to ban self-defence guns! South Africa is an extremely dangerous country to live because of severe crime and an incompetent police service. On average 57 people are murdered in South Africa every day, and the murder rate..
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A TYPICAL SOUTH AFRICAN BRAIN TEASER – how are they going to spin the VBS bank debacle in such a way that the white man is to blame for all of this?
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Black people in South Africa are poor, uneducated and unemployed. The EFF says it is because of “white monopoly capital”. The ANC says it is the result of “apartheid”. Mmusi Maimane of the DA blames “White privilege” – all just variants of the same thing: Blame the 8% politically powerless white minority. So, now to..
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IS THIS COINCIDENCE? – Mmamathe Makhekhe-Mokhuane makes a fool of herself twice in two days, regarding alleged corruption and mismanagement at Sars
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Mmamathe Makhekhe-Mokhuane makes a fool of herself twice in two days, on both occasions on being questioned regarding alleged corruption and mismanagement at Sars. In the same week the media is removed from a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee hearing on alleged corruption in the Department of Water and sanitation. The ANC, DA and IFP says the..
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The ANC plan…and why they won’t be stopped
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For quite some years a document has been doing the rounds on social and formal media platforms. It is alleged to be a leaked circular from the ANC Headquarters dated June 1993 in which the ANC sets out their transformation strategy after the April 1994 elections. The validity of the document has never been challenged..
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Harsh reality – Only ruins and tree trunks left of show farm after disastrous land reform process
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A once flourishing grape and citrus farm of 480 hectare in Limpopo has been reduced to ruins, and chopped orange trees which were used for firewood. This is the sad reality Solidarity encountered during a visit to the dilapidated Sunningdale farm, which is located between Mokopane and Polokwane. In 2010, the farm was transferred to..
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Do the coalition between the ANC and EFF holds a threat towards the people of South-Africa?
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The coalition between the ANC and the EFF in Port Elizabeth is the biggest threat to South Africa right now. That is what DA leader Mmusi Maimane claimed on Sunday in Johannesburg. He was speaking at a media briefing following the party’s final federal council meeting of the year. “The coalition that has been formed..
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