Numerous lecturers and students live in fear after the Bethlehem Campus of the Maluti Technical and Vocational College (a TVET college) had averted in a war zone when buildings were bombarded with gasoline bombs.
Sgt. Police spokesperson Mmako Mophiring said anarchy and chaos broke out on campus on Friday when protesters demanded the immediate dismissal of the college’s chief, Veli Mabena.
The social grants agency can spend half a million rand on chairs and decor for one event, but can’t answer how millions of beneficiaries will get their grants.
The ability of a new “technical committee” established by Social Development Minister Susan Shabangu to find a working solution to making cash payments was called into question on Tuesday, reports Amanda Watson.
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Presdent Cyril Ramaphosa has once again outlined the purpose behind the resolution taken by the African National Congress’ (ANC) in their most recent elective conference, to move on land expropriation without compensation.
The ruling party held its inaugural Land Summit in Boksburg on Saturday, with Ramaphosa one of the key speakers.
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Rosebank Police Station’s spokesperson, Sergeant Bongi Mdletshe, confirmed that during a security meeting, Fidelity ADT Security reported an incident where a domestic worker was approached on the road and was offered cash if they could take the baby, Rosebank Killarney Gazette reports.
ADT’s community development manager, Sam Cretten, said although it is too early to panic and highlight this as a trend, one can never be too careful.
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Polisie het motoriste aanbeveel om van alternatiewe roetes gebruik te maak siende dat Bellair Weg en Jan Smuts Hoofweg gesluit is weens protes deur plakkers.
Ongeveer 200 plakkers het paaie versper met bome en oudergewoonte brandende bande.
Die plakkers kom vanuit die nabygeleë Cato Crest “informele woonbuurt”. Mense sterf glo weens “onwettige krag aansluitings”, maar dit is immers die gemeenskap self wat die aansluitings maak, en nou betoog hul daarteen as dit ‘n skokkende uitwerking het op hulle.
Deur: Die Vryburger
Pupils under the age of 10 years could soon “cruise through” their foundation phase without repeating a grade, if the new “learner progression” plan being mooted by the Department of Basic Education goes ahead.
Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga recently said in Parliament that expert opinion suggested it was not beneficial for pupils in the lower grades, between the ages of 6 and 10, to repeat a grade.
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It was a feast of free booze for looters along Industry Road in Isando‚ near Kempton Park in Ekurhuleni‚ on Monday morning after a truck carrying Heineken crates lost parts of its load.
People rushed to grab boxes‚ each containing 12 beer bottles‚ before police and company staff could arrive to stop them.
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Police were reportedly conducting patrols when they came across the Toyota Tazz loaded to the brim with sheep.
Two suspects were arrested in Cathcart, Eastern Cape after being caught with six sheep crammed in their car.
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A combined committee of ANC members of KZN and the Free State recently declared that white people in the country are becoming increasingly arrogant.
Webster’s Dictionary defines arrogance as “an insulting way of thinking or behaving that comes from believing that you are better, smarter and superior. An overbearing manner in presumptuous claims or assumptions.”
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The civil rights organisation AfriForum has criticised what it calls the premature “conviction” of Nick Mallett and Naas Botha following the walk-out of Ashwin Willemse during a live SuperSport rugby broadcast on Saturday – blaming it on “anti-white” sentiment.
Willemse‚ a former Springbok‚ walked off the set after an apparent disagreement with his co-presenters‚ Botha and Mallett‚ saying he would not be patronised by two individuals who had played in the apartheid era.
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Five people have been arrested in connection with a cash-in-transit heist which happened in Boksburg‚ Ekurhuleni on Thursday.
Police spokesperson Captain Mavela Masondo told TimesLIVE at the scene on Atlas Road that the police’s speedy response to the heist resulted in the quick arrest.
“It is alleged that more than 10 suspects who were driving in four vehicles approached two G4S security vans‚” said Masondo.
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A fight broke out in parliament on Wednesday during a Labour Portfolio Committee meeting to discuss‚ in detail‚ the National Minimum Wage Bill.
The committee chair‚ Sharome van Schalkwyk‚ described the incident as “unfortunate” and said it was not an indication of how South Africans should resolve differences of opinion.
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Moeletsi Mbeki has labelled Julius Malema ‘a black racist’ and advised white South Africans not to worry about the land issue.
Moeletsi Mbeki has labelled Julius Malema a “black racist”, and advised South Africa’s white population to ignore the “noise” around land expropriation without compensation.
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Umkhonto weSizwe veterans were contracted to assassinate former KwaZulu-Natal Hawks boss Johan Booysen after meeting with former president Jacob Zuma, KwaZulu-Natal ANC provincial secretary Super Zuma and ANC interim co-ordinator in KwaZulu-Natal Sihle Zikalala, DA MP Dianne Kohler Barnard alleged in Parliament on Tuesday.
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Tydens die Natalse Wetgewende Vergadering het die DA en die NFP die vergadering verlaat uit protes teen die oud-hoofman Jacob Zuma se teenwoordigheid.
Hulle beskuldig Zuma daarvan dat hy die staatskas “besteel” het en hulle kan nie saam met hom vergader nie siende dat hy deel was van die Guptas se staatskaping.
Deur: Die Vryburger