The Marievale Military Base near Springs has 73 illegal families on the land, already since 2009.
After the families were removed, Human Rights Attorneys dragged the SANDF to the Pretoria High Court saying that the army could not expel the squatters.
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AfriForum response in reaction to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s statement that those who would like to mobilise the international community against “their own country”, should “come back home for inclusive dialogue”, is that the President should not confuse South Africa’s interests with the ANC’s policies.
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Four people aged between 32 and 64 were on Tuesday, 8 May 2018, arrested following acts of public violence at Seleteng Ga-Mphahlele next to Lebowakgomo.
The police were summoned to the scene where community members were protesting.On arrival, the road had already been barricaded by the chanting protesters who were also hostile towards police.
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Protesters became violent on Wednesday afternoon at Steve Biko Hospital in Pretoria.
Gauteng police spokesperson, Captain Kay Makhubela said a group of protesters, who were supposed to be former security company employees, arrived at the Steve Biko Hospital.
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Judging by this newspaper headline,we can only hope that the army of Disneyland does not decide to declare war on South Africa.
It will be a short war.
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A motorist was forced to drive through red traffic lights to escape the aggressive conduct of a “window washer”, who was armed with petrol and matches.
The Greenstone resident said the incident took place at the Modderfontein N3 south off-ramp on Saturday night.
AfriForum has threatened to take Volkswagen to the Equality Court if they don’t let the young man try out as a driver.
Student JP Peens is accusing Volkswagen South Africa of racism as he, as a white person, is deliberately being excluded from taking part in a competition to become a Volkswagen racing driver.
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A senior government official is being investigated for allegedly splashing thousands of rands of taxpayer’s money on a car for his girlfriend and furniture for her house during a two-year spending spree.
Between 2014 and 2016, July Maphosa, a director at the sustainable livelihoods programme of the Gauteng department of social development, which is meant to support needy families, also allegedly instructed a service provider to transfer funds to buy a luxurious car for a friend.
A farm attack in Elandslaagte that took place on May 5, 2018 saw farm workers being tied up and a home robbed.
A couple who stay on the farm, as workers, heard noises and went to investigate.
They were confronted by five men wearing balaclavas. The men grabbed them and tied them up.
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The majority of municipalities which won’t have enough money to cover their expenses are in Limpopo, followed by the Northern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.
It’s emerged more than 40% of municipalities don’t have the money to carry out service delivery plans for the current financial year.
Another race row has rocked the DA after senior party leaders took Mmusi Maimane to task over his comments on “white privilege”.
But this time Maimane is feeling the heat from his three most senior colleagues in Parliament. Some party insiders allege they mounted an “orchestrated attack on him” during a heated caucus meeting on Thursday.
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A leading businessman apparently assaulted a woman who was pregnant at Steers in Ruimsig on the West Rand. He smacked her against the breast, slapped her through the face and on the stomach and through her over the restaurant’s chairs.
The incident happened at a parking lot situated in the Featherbrooke Village shopping center last Wednesday.
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King Goodwill Zwelithini is getting more money. KwaZulu-Natal Premier Willies Mchunu announced during his budget vote for the 2018/19 financial year in the provincial legislature in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday that the Zulu monarch’s annual budget has been increased by R7-million‚ from R58.8-million last year to R65.8-million this year.
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Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota has remained defiant about his views on land and says expropriation of land without compensation will take the country “back to war”.
Lekota said the EFF’s ideas around expropriation of land without compensation were dangerous and that the party’s leader Julius Malema did not understand the consequences that come with a war over land.
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