South African state-owned enterprises set the stage for a sad affair. The sordid tale of bottomless funding vanishing under the unexplainable guise of ‘irregular expenditure’ – the millions become indiscernible from the billions, spoken of as fictitious currency. But the money is very real, and it trickles into government coffers through the tax tear in..
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State-owned enterprises: Which one costs South African taxpayers the most money?
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Finger licking good! – Cash-strapped municipality spends R90,000 on KFC
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The municipal manager of a cash-strapped municipality in the Eastern Cape‚ beset by power and water shortages‚ has defended spending R90‚000 on fried chicken after his appointment. Carte Blanche on Sunday lifted the lid on the shocking lack of service delivery by Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality in the town of Komani‚ formerly Queenstown. The heavily..
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SOUTH AFRICA IS RULED BY SMUGGLERS
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According to a report in today’s report, the SA Defense Force tried to smuggle a consignment of guns and ammunition to Cuba without a permit. In addition, they wanted to load this weapon on a hired SAL flight to Havana, which would also carry passengers. Not the airline, the pilots, was aware of the nature..
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ANC in Gauteng will not wait for parliament – implementing expropriation of land without permission
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David Makhura has pledged to return vacant land to the people, and not to wait for parliament. The Gauteng African National Congress conference has resolved to release vacant land as soon as possible for implementing expropriation of land without compensation and will not wait for the go ahead from parliament, chairman and premier David Makhura..
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Vrystaatse gesondheidsdepartement stort in duie na top spesialiste bedank
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Gesondheidsorg in die Vrystaat steier steeds onder die voortdurende eksodus van sy topmedici. Pas het nog twee van die provinsie se voorste spesialiste, prof. Schalk Wentzel (55) by urologie en dr. Maryke Spruit (55) by kritieke sorg, bedank.
Dr. Freek Bester, president van die Suid-Afrikaanse Mediese Vereniging se sentrale tak, sê om die ervaring van die topspesialiste wat die afgelope jaar en ’n half geloop het te probeer terugwen, gaan moeilik wees.
“Dit kan tot tien jaar neem om nuwelinge aan te stel en hulle weer op dieselfde gehaltevlak te bring nadat die institusionele geheue verlore gegaan het.
“Die bedankings veroorsaak dat pasiënte wat toenemend nie meer mediese fondse kan bekostig nie aan die lot van onbekwame dokters met swak opleiding en min ervaring blootgestel gaan word.”
Die akademiese platforms by die Universitas- en die Pelonomi-hospitaal, waar mediese studente aan die Universiteit van die Vrystaat opleiding ontvang, se toekoms wor
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Diensjaar: Verpleegster wen hofsaak na regstryd met Gautengse gesondheidsowerheid
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“Dit voel of ’n berg van my skouers af is.”
So het ’n verligte en glimlaggende Dané Hertz (22) Dinsdagmiddag gesê ná haar regstryd met die Gautengse gesondheidsowerheid omdat sy nie uitplasing vir haar verpligte gemeenskapsdiensjaar as verpleegster kon kry nie.
Hertz moet luidens ’n bevel van die hooggeregshof in Pretoria binne 30 dae deur dié owerheid uitgeplaas word na die O.R. Tambo-kliniek, waar sy van die begin af wou werk nadat sy as ’n verpleegkundige gekwalifiseer het. Die kliniek is sowat 8 km van haar huis af.
Die vakbond Solidariteit sê hy het namens Hertz ’n aansoek by dié hof ingedien om haar in ’n gemeenskapsdienspos aangestel te kry omdat die gesondheidsdepartement en minister van gesondheid sedert Januarie “versuim het om haar te plaas”.
Solidariteit het die gesondheidsowerheid op 15 Junie dringend versoek om Hertz, wat einde verlede jaar afgestudeer het, binne sewe dae na ’n kliniek uit te plaas.
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Resident allegedly turned away from clinic because she’s ‘white’
“Fire thousands of nurses who cheated” – Medical Law Expert
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A medical law expert has called for the thousands of qualified nurses who cheated in mid-year bridging exams to be struck off the roll.
“It would be tantamount to gross negligence to allow these nurses to practise,” said pharmacist, ethicist and medical law practitioner Shafrudeen Amod.
On May 10, staff nurses with a two-year qualification and employed at a clinic or hospital, wrote first- or second-year bridging course exams. Passing the exams qualifies them as better-trained “registered nurses” who earn more and have more responsibilities.
The High Court in Pretoria, which has invalidated the exams, heard that many nurses saw the question paper before they wrote the exam, and some had the answers memo, which they could have taken with them into the exams.
The implications are far-reaching.
Ethicist and qualified doctor Aimes Dhai, director of the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, said the suggestion in the court judgment that thousands of candidates che
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Transnet pensioners dying in poverty
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While the class action lawsuit filed by Transnet pensioners against the state is being drawn out year after year with legal processes, a large number of people are living in destitute circumstances and over the last 60 months, since the lawsuit commenced, nearly 21 000 pensioners and/or their spouses have passed away (that is on..
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SASSA beneficiaries struggle as post office strike continues
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The strike by South African Post Office workers over wages entered a second week on Friday. Post offices in Pietermaritzburg were closed. Workers are demanding a 12% increase. “Currently the employer has offered 6.5%,” said the provincial secretary of the Communication Workers Union, Thami Mzileni. Mzileni said on Friday morning workers received a court interdict..
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South Africa’s electricity system is falling apart – and it is much bigger than just Eskom
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Load shedding has returned to South Africa in recent weeks after striking Eskom workers sabotaged the national grid. However, this is not the biggest problem facing the country’s electricity system. MyBroadband has received new research on power outages in South Africa over the past two years, which shows a drastic increase in the number of..
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Immigrants crosses SA Border illegally from Swaziland on a daily basis and apparently draws SASSA as well
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SANDF members stand and watch as around 600 people per day cross into South Africa from Swaziland. Many apparently get SA grants. Between the borders of SA and Swaziland the Department of Agriculture has men permanently posted to guard the border due to fact that the fence is cut and thieves drive stolen vehicles through..
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SA take notice of the following -“Zimbabwe needs the white man” says outgoing Zanu-PF MP
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Joseph Tshuma, an outgoing Zanu-PF MP says Mugabe made a big mistake by ‘chasing the white man out of Zimbabwe’. Joseph Tshuma, an outgoing member of parliament has stated that “without the involvement of whites” the country cannot prosper. His proclamation is in reference to the Robert Mugabe era Zimbabwe, where the country remained isolated..
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Tell the president what you think….
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We thank Cyril Ramaphosa for putting up the petrol price by 80c, putting up vat to 15% and shrinking the economy by 2.2%, the lowest in 9 years! We also thank Cyril Ramaphosa for the marikana incident and for comparing whites to frogs being boiled in hot water. We also thank the ANC the African..
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Departement van Gesondheid het Kuba se hulp ingeroep met NGV
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Aaron Motsoaledi het aangekondig dat die Departement van Gesondheid gebruik gaan maak van die bykans 250 “dokters” wat sopas teruggekeer het vanuit Kuba na hul opleiding aldaar.
Hierdie pas afgestudeerde en nat agter die ore dokters sonder enige ondervinding, gaan nou glo help om die voorgestelde abortiewe Nasionale Gesondheid Versekering van die grond te kry.
Diegene wat nou terug keer moet, twee jaar hul “Ramahosa” diens verrig in staatshospitale, en sal nog ‘n jaar van studie aan ‘n SA universiteit moet doen voordat hulle gemeenskapswerk gaan verrig.
Kenners is skepties oor die “dokters” se opleiding en voel dat hul nie medies gaan studeer het nie maar bloot opleiding ontvang het van Kubaanse dokters. ‘n Paar jaar gelede het die studente die nuus gehaal met hul gefuifery en is sommiges terug gestuur.
Deur: Die Vryburger
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