An 85-year-old pensioner had R300 000 stolen from his Nebdank account last week in a sim swap scam.
The man’s son, who would rather not be named, wrote to CapeTalk host John Maytham to relay the experience.
Forensic investigator Dr David Klatzow says the sim swap scam has become more prevalent over the past three years.
The Johannesburg Metropolitan Police officer was arrested on Monday, June 4, on 6th street and Turf Road in Turffontein, south of Johannesburg, for allegedly attempting to solicit a bribe and enforcing illegally whilst not on duty, Comaro Chronicle reports.
The 33 year old Male officer was arrested by the members of JMPD Internal Affairs after he had stopped a motorist for disobeying a red traffic light, he spoke to the driver and allegedly attempted to solicit a R3000 bribe from the motorist.
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Former president Jacob Zuma has issued a stern warning that he will not sit back and watch his critics provoking him.
Zuma was a keynote speaker at the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) meeting on free education held in Durban on Wednesday.
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Cosatu has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to sack health minister Aaron Motsoaledi, arguing that he is directly responsible for the continued deterioration of the healthcare system in the country.
“People are losing their lives on a daily basis and this has reached crisis levels. What has disappointed Cosatu the most is Minister Motsoaledi’s denialism and scapegoating.”
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” If there is a white person in the room, we think that’s the person in charge,” Maimane said in an interview with Sunday Times, adding that he made a mistake keeping Helen Zille in the DA after he took over leadership.
Helen Zille should have been removed from decision-making structures after she stepped down as party leader, DA leader Mmusi Maimane has said.
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Public service workers plan to put down their pens and wheelbarrows and stop work on Monday, June 11th.
This after wage negotiations failed.
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EFF commander-in-chief Julius Malema was filmed making comments at a rally, where he accused news network eNCA of openly supporting the President, and the ‘white owned media’ of trying to ‘impose Ramaphosa’ on South African voters.
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NONE SO BLIND…
This Mampara lives in his own world where he sees no evil, and hears no evil. After all the evidence that has been published showing that his BFFs the Gupta family looted state coffers with the help of his ministers and senior officials, Zumampara still believes state capture does not exist.
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A Pietermaritzburg family is battling to come to terms with the grisly discovery of an intruder’s body in their garden on Friday after he was mauled to death by their two pitbulls.
The intruder was found early on Friday morning when the family’s domestic worker went out into the garden to hang up washing.
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A cloud of dust flies upward as Nontutuko Shebi strikes at the bedrock of the “Marikana” quarry‚ her hand clutching her hammer as each blow joins the clinking chorus of tools against rock that echoes all around her.
Her nine-month-old daughter Okuhle – bound closely to her mother with a blanket – is unperturbed by each strike.
Shebi has come to the shale quarry set in the hills of rural southern KwaZulu-Natal hoping that “gold” locked in the hillside may change the destiny of her youngest child‚ otherwise bound for a life of poverty.
The mother of four‚ who lives in KwaMachi‚ like hundreds of others‚ believes that gold has been found and‚ with it‚ wealth and prosperity is close at hand.
KwaMachi resident Thulani Ncayiyane‚ 28‚ said that roadworkers had first made the discovery last week.
They had‚ he said‚ used the shale to surface rural roads and stumbled on the “gold”.
“There were trucks working then. They wer
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ANC general secretary, Ace (the Free State-milkman) Magashule, announced that, not only does the ANC intend to start with expropriation of land without compensation within the next week or two, but that they will also start a process to nationalize the Reserve Bank of South Africa.
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In this video by Willem Petzer we see a clip where Julius Malema, the leader of the EFF admits that black people are not native to South Africa. And this from someone who is advocating the killing of the boers (farmers), Boers being a broader term for the whites in the country.
Gerhard Papenfus, the chief executive of the National Employers’ Association of South Africa (NEASA), has written an open letter to Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant
Dear Minister
Since I am “white”, I take note when you talk so boldly about “whites” being the stumbling block in terms of your transformation agenda. I write this letter to you in order to get clarity.
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The deputy principal of the Jeppe Boys High School in Johannesburg delivered a speech to the pupils last week in which he addressed the issue of “white privilege.”
Amongst other things, mr Kevin Leathem said:
“Imagine playing a video game where the save function was disabled and you were unable to accumulate experience points. That’s what it was like being black during apartheid. No matter how hard you worked, or how much money you earned, you couldn’t own land, businesses, or homes. You couldn’t buy your kids a safer suburb to grow up in or buy them a better education. Every generation started back at zero. Being white was like being the only one with a save function.
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Over a period of three months in 2017, Sibongile Mani spent about R800,000 of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme money she erroneously received.
A Walter Sisulu University student who spent a portion of R14 million that was mistakenly deposited into her account has appeared in court on theft charges.
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