South Africans will have to prepare for more power outages this weekend after Eskom announces that Phase 2 load shedding will take effect from 09:00 to 23:00 Friday. According to their latest statement, the bankrupt state entity says their system is still vulnerable. Although the power grid units are recovering as scheduled, they also lost..
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#Rollingblackouts – To prevent further damages Eskom announce Phase 2 load shedding for Friday
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Load shedding due to poor workmanship at failed Medupi power plant, though Ramphosa points finger at sabotage
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The Phase 4 load shedding forced on South Africa this past week is attributed to poor workmanship with the erection of the Medupi power plant, which was initially highly praised by the ANC government. The power plant has caused so many problems in the past week that the Eskom management had to take the load..
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SA mining houses are closing one after the other due to Eskom load shedding
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South Africa’s mining houses close one after the other because it has become too risky to let their workers work underground during load shedding. It costs billions of rand to stop underground mining activities and still have to pay workers even though there is no production for the whole week. Economists point out that Eskom..
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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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Patients suffer while NEHAWU members trashed Pietersburg hospital during illegal picketing, demanding performance bonuses
SA’s economic decline has happened by design – The ANC’s obsession with disproved socialist/communist practices is at the root of the problems
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All the plans devised to reignite the economy of the country will be stillborn so long as the ANC continues to pursue its socialist/communist programme. Even as Tito Mboweni proclaims his plans for the recovery, the ANC persists with its plans for expropriation of property without compensation, compulsory equity transfers, control of the “commanding heights”..
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SANDF splashes R20.5m on luxury German cars, but says funding shortfall is impacting on maintaining military base in Centurion
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While the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) was unable to maintain the Thaba Tshwane military base in Centurion due to “predominantly a lack of funds”, it has managed to find the cash to spend R20.5m on “luxury vehicles”, valued at over R600 000 each, for senior management in the previous two financial years. This is..
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Here are the ex-presidents who cost taxpayers the most
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Wondering which South African ex-presidents, as well as their spouse, costs the taxpayer the most after leaving their political offices? So far, it was by no means easy to find out and Dr. Leon Schreiber, DA MP, during a parliamentary question to President Jackson Mthembu, asked exactly what benefits these former politicians enjoy, and how..
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New scam doing the round in SA, people are now renting dead bodies to scam life insurers
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South Africans are renting, and buying, dead bodies to make false funeral claims, a report by the Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (ASISA) says. Life insurers rejected 1,915 funeral claims worth R176.4 million in 2018, of which 1,127 were found to involve fraudulent documentation. Another 156 fraudulent claims showed syndicate involvement – and..
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National Health Insurance: Medical specialists and doctors threaten to flee overseas
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The new National Health Insurance (NHI) that the ANC-regime wants to implement is facing fierce opposition from doctors and medical professionals in the Free State. These medics are currently threatening to go overseas, meanwhile, the Free State DA has also been involved in a fight with Montsent Tsiu, the MEC of Health in the province. The parties involved confirm that the NHI is going to become an unaffordable system that is doomed even before it is implemented.
The doctors support the principle of health care for all but reckon that the NHI is not a feasible system. It is believed that if doctors are first harmed by being prohibited from opening private practices and patients are forced upon them whom they must pay attention within 24 hours, they will simply walk.
According to reports from Network 24, Marietta Pittaway, DA MPW, accused Tsiu of sitting in the Free State Legislature for “prematurely” informing parliament that the Free State provincial government
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MINISTERS ‘FINANCES MUST BE REDUCED – Taxpayers are picking up the bills for home cleaning products, security improvements and cellphones
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The Minister of Public Service and Administration Senzo Mchunu on Monday announced several changes to the ministerial manual. Ministers will now not be allowed to pay more than R700 000 for a car, official flights within South Africa must be undertaken in economy class. The state will also no longer pay for security upgrades at..
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What a disgrace! Table Mountain Cableway: Visitors get stuck amid #Rollingblackouts
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The Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company said power surges may have caused the failure of its generator. The impact of load shedding is being felt across the country, as Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company (TMACC) on Monday confirmed that visitors got stuck on top of the mountain. In a statement on Monday evening, TMACC said:..
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#Rollingblackouts in SA mos definitely caused by BEE, racial quotas, cadre deployment and outright looting!
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Yes, without a doubt the c-ANC-er broke Eskom, like they broke everything else. And they are making money from it too. It is known that the ANC’s investment arm called Chancellor House made a 5000 % profit on its investment in Hitachi South Africa which had the tender for the boilers of Medupi and Kusile..
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#Rollingblackouts – Total darkness creeps closer after Eskom applied Phase 6 load shedding
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South Africa is getting closer to the risk of a total nationwide power shutdown after Eskom applied Phase 6 load on Monday evening at 6pm, shutting down a region’s power for about 9 hours a day. This is due to additional technical problems occurring at the Medupi power station at Lephalale in Limpopo. Phase 6..
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Mbalula fixated on the “old SA flag” – When you see the so-called apartheid symbol even in sports shoes, you must know there is something wrong upstairs
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Fikile Mbalula, Minister of Transport, tweeted his objection to a design of sports hoes by Nike, because they remind him of the “apartheid flag”. Why would Minister Mbalula be so concerned about the designs of tekkies? In his culture, shoes never played a part…it came with the colonialist oppressor!
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