The Guptas are out. What remains of South Africa is now being sold to the Chinese. What we finds interesting is this: Everywhere Cyril goes, even to Beijing recently, he is accompanied by multi-millionaire mining magnate, Patrice Motsepe. And Motsepe is, of course, the brother of Cyril’s wife. Keeping it in the family, we see…..
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KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY
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Government of SA is to blame that we are excluded from US tariff relief
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South Africa has been left out of countries to receive relief from steel and aluminium tariffs from US President Donald Trump’s administration. This is after Trump reportedly signed proclamations permitting targeted relief from steel and aluminium quotas from countries including South Korea, Brazil and Argentina and on aluminium from Argentina. South Africa was among developing..
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Petrol predicted to hit R19 by end of 2018
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Petrol price is set to increase for the fifth time this year due to a weaker rand. Deputy editor at Finacial Mail Sikonathi Mantshantsha says he is predicting that South Africans will be paying R19 per litre of petrol by the end of 2018. The rand weakened to about R14 after Argentina increased its interest..
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Dumb Soweto businessman in hot water after bomb threat to US embassy over Trump tweet
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A response to US President Donald Trump’s tweet about land expropriation in SA has landed a Soweto businessman in trouble. Freeman Bhengu is being investigated by police after allegedly sending a bomb threat to the US embassy in Pretoria. Sources close to the investigation said the caller had used his cellphone to make the call,..
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No wonder China’s Xi Jinping are supporting land reform since they will benefit from the stolen land in terms of coal mining
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has given South Africa’s land reform policy the thumbs up. This has been revealed by President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is on a state visit in Beijing. Ramaphosa was hosted by Jinping at the State House on Sunday and will on Monday co-chair a Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. Following Donald Trump’s tweet..
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Nedbank confirms that farmers will still have to repay their loan debt even though the ANC regime stole their farm
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The Nedbank Bank Group has confirmed that mortgagees will still be held responsible for repayment of loans, even if their land would be expropriated without compensation. This news was confirmed by Kedibonea Molopyane, head of Nedbank’s media department. According to the bank, a loan agreement is binding regardless of any form of so-called land reform…
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Anger as KZN hospital sends child home with gaping wound
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A child is back in a KwaZulu-Natal hospital after being discharged with a gaping bleeding wound‚ forcing his aunt to turn to Twitter to demand help.
But the health department disputes the version of events.
The 8-year-old boy was discharged from Madadeni hospital in Newcastle on Monday with an open wound‚ following an appendix operation.
His aunt‚ Gabi Manana‚ asked her friend to tweet the pictures of the child’s festering incision without identifying him.
Manana said: “I was looking for help‚ that is why I put that thing on Twitter.”
The tweet asked national health department officials for help.
The boy was in too much pain to walk on Monday‚ said Manana.
People who viewed the tweet were worried the large uncovered wound could become septic.
On Monday night‚ Health Department spokesman Joe Maila responded to the tweet saying he had called Kwazulu-Natal health officials.
They called the child’s aunt on Monday night.
On Tuesda
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Probe exonerates Livingstone Hospital in death and maggots row
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Livingstone Hospital investigations have found that nobody can be held liable for two shocking incidents in which a patient fell to his death from the fifth floor and maggots hatched in the wound of another.
But the family of Zakes Mbeki, 29, who fell from the fifth story of the hospital early on Christmas morning, after he was admitted forseizures, want an inquest magistrate to decide who was responsible.
Clint Morris, whose leg wound became infested with maggots after he allegedly begged nurses for days to change his surgical dressings, has vowed to ensure that the hospital admits to wrongdoing.Morris, 40, had been injured in a scooter accident in December.
Eastern Cape health department superintendent-general Dr Thobile Mbengashe ordered an investigation into why maggots had hatched in Morris’s wound.
Provincial health department spokesman Sizwe Kupelo said investigators had concluded in both cases that nobody could be held responsible.
He said it w
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FROM NOW ON, NEWS24 WILL BE KNOWN AS FAKE-NEWS24 – Allow me to tell you a little cautionary tale regarding the media
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So, News 24 runs this headline. It creates the impression that a whole lot of people are of this particularly strong opinion. Upon reading the article, you will notice that it is in fact only one farmer who said this. And by all appearances in her personal capacity. She did not state that she speaks..
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ANC party on collision course with Parliament on land – majority of participants did not favour the amendment of the Constitution
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The issue of land expropriation without compensation has simmered to a point where Parliament is on a collision course with the ANC as a political party. Having undertaken extensive consultations in various provinces on the question of the expropriation of land, Parliament has stumbled upon uncomfortable feedback that seems to be an emerging voice from..
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Farm attacks: Trump’s accurate tweet, liberal alliance keeping it hush hush
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So this is what is happening in South Africa, the hard facts. What President Trump was tweeting about and what the black nats and international liberal alliance want to keep hush-hush. Two elderly ladies in their 70’s tortured for hours and beaten with whips on a farm by black males in South Africa, Roossenekal, Mpumalanga…
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The maddening state of Gauteng’s psychiatric facilities
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A massive shortages of hospital beds for psychiatric patients in Gauteng is compromising patient care.
Gauteng is short of about 2700 psychiatric beds which means that psychiatric patients have to be admitted to general wards where there is no security, thus posing a threat both to themselves and others.
This was revealed recently by Gauteng Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa in a 22-page statement handed to the Gauteng Legislature in response to questions about the state of psychiatric care for hospitalised patients.
By the time a person with a psychiatric illness is hospitalised, their symptoms are usually severe and patients may be suicidal or psychotic.
The World Health Organisation (using prevalence US figures) estimates that up to three percent of a population will have severe psychiatric conditions and need hospitalisation. This excludes figures for people with substance abuse-related disorders and post-traumatic stress – so it is likely to be an under-esti
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Lets start the weekend of with a little bit of humor – Malema says Jews are training right wingers as snipers to kill black people
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The EFF commander-in-chief slammed those who believe white South Africans face a ‘white genocide,’ saying that if anything Trump should focus on what he termed a ‘black genocide’. At a media briefing on Thursday at EFF headquarters in Braamfontein, EFF Leader Julius Malema made the shocking claim that a group of right-wing extremists is being..
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Government spend Half a million on braai areas for ministers that is funded with taxpayers money
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The department is said to have about 148 ministerial houses that cost anywhere between R4m and R9m. Themba Godi, who is the chairperson of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA), made it clear on Tuesday that taxpayers could not possibly be expected to foot the bill for the expenditure. The SCOPA revealed that the..
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Petrol prices: This is how much the ANC-goverment earns on our fuel tax and levy
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Cyril Ramaphosa restored some hope when he announced that he would task the Department of Energy and National Treasury with the duty of finding a solution to the issue of rising petrol prices. However, on Tuesday, the joint team, led by Jeff Radebe, who is the Minister of Energy, confirmed that, in fact, there was..
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