South Africa is two days into 2020 and the first school burns. The Tokelo High School in the Vaal Triangle lost four classrooms due to arson. Panyaza Lesufi, the MEC of Education in Gauteng, is disappointed with the R4 million damage done. It was soon established that arsonists are responsible for the damage, but the..
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#TheAfricanWay – Another day, another black school burns down – Black learners may now have to get their education in traditionally white schools?
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Cyril rushes back to Eskom and cuts visit to Egypt short amidst electricity crisis which holds serious economic consequences for SA
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Opposition parties expressed their dismay when the ANC president, Cyril Ramaphosa, went to Egypt amidst #rollingblackouts occurred all over South-Africa this past week. He had to cut his less important visit to short and returned to South Africa to talk to the heads of Eskom about the crisis load shedding has on the finances of..
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Ford SA decided to compensate after at least 39 Kuga vehicles caught fire, where people burned to death or where injured severely
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The Ford Motor Company in South Africa finally decided to start negotiations with people and families who incurred damage with a Ford Kuga. The poorly crafted Kuga whose machine apparently overheats and caused at least 39 owners’ terror by catching fire and even lead to the death of several people or serious injuries. Furthermore, at..
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Illegal protest by eThekwini municipal workers who downed tools, caused R3.5m damage in municipal infrastructure
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The total cost of damage to infrastructure as a result of the illegal protest by eThekwini municipal workers exceeds R3.5m, KwaZulu-Natal premier Willies Mchunu has revealed.
Mchunu was addressing journalists at the department of co-operative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) offices in Mayville, Durban.
“The cost of the damage to date is over R3.5m for eThekwini municipal infrastructure. This excludes impact on the economy, which is still being quantified, and the cost of hiring privately owned water tankers where reservoirs and valves had been tampered with.
“We are informed that 90% of the water services have been restored,” he said.
Mchunu said the protests had affected international guests who had been in the city for the annual Tourism Indaba, Africa’s biggest tourism event which showcases the continent as a good place for business and leisure tourism.
“We now have a situation where hotels housing international guests are without water. On
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R1.3m payout after SA oranges arrived square in Italy – one can only imagine WHO packed it?
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One of the largest players in the Italian citrus trading market ordered and bought round oranges from a Limpopo orange company but square oranges instead arrived in Sicily, Italy. This is how a judge described the damages claim which came before him in the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria. The Italian company Oranfrizer instituted a claim..
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