Once upon a time, more than a quarter of a century ago, Port St John was a lovely tourist town on the East Coast of South Africa…a place of breathtaking beauty, scenes of nature to inspire the artist and orderly, maintained lovely buildings speaking of a proud history and a bright future.
And then African democracy arrived….
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A controversial R570-million Free State dairy project was riddled with irregularities, investigators for the national treasury have found.
Exclusive material from the investigation shows that the treasury launched a full-scale investigation of the Estina dairy following several Mail & Guardian exposés about it in mid-2013. The reports suggested the deal with Estina – a company without agricultural experience and led by a computer sales manager – flouted treasury rules and was designed to milk provincial government coffers.
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Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane has been accused of interfering in a mine sale by giving instructions that his preferred BEE partner be chosen over other prospective partners.
Zwane is said to have told a Chinese-led consortium to overlook one of the prospective BEE partners in favour of another. The identity of that partner is not known.
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The City of Cape Town believes that saboteurs are to blame for a spike in vandalism of public transport related infrastructure.
Last night, two MyCiTi stations were vandalised in Dunoon and Usasaza.
Modified tanker trucks are at the center of a new wave of drug smuggling into and through South Africa as well as movement of illegal arms and ivory from and out of Zimbabwe, a Khuluma Afrika investigation has established.
This was discovered after a fuel tanker truck was hijacked just after the South Africa – Mozambique border post. The hijackers reportedly took the truck to a secluded farm believed to be their ‘extraction’ point only to find out the vehicle barely had fuel, and the tank had been modified.
JOHANNESBURG – The so-called doom pastor has been found guilty of contravening the agricultural remedies act and assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
The verdict was handed down in the Mookgopong Magistrates Court on Friday.
Lethebo Rabalago made headlines in 2016 after it emerged that he had been spraying his congregants with Doom insecticide and falsely claiming it could cure illnesses.
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After consumers had boycotted the Spur restaurant group, which resulted in several branches closing their doors after their racist behaviour, the same consumers threatened with two more boycotts.
Readers of the Afrikaans Family Magazine, Huisgenoot, are highly shocked at the magazine’s extremely positive report about the soon to be third child of white and Afrikaner hater Julius Malema . Malema is notorious for singing songs such as “Shoot the Farmer” and the like, and readers believe he deserves no place in an Afrikaans magazine, especially because it is so positively presented.
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POSTED ON FEBRUARY 7, 2018 BY BLACK FIRST LAND FIRST – We are excited by the news that fire has broken out in some of the farms currently illegally owned by the Rupert family. Black First Land First (BLF) believes that the fire is the retribution by our black God. The fire is just and welcomed.
In May 2017, BLF gave whites until December that year to meet as whites and decide how to return our land. But like the stubborn and arrogant pharaohs of the bible, whites have responded with laughter at our call. We prayed to our black Gods to give us strength, unity and to punish those who stole our land. We prayed for draught and we prayed for fire upon the thieves.
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Should Jacob Zuma heed calls for him to step aside as president of the country‚ he will be entitled to his salary and most of the perks he enjoyed in office – for the rest of his life.
He would be paid his annual R2‚989‚845 salary after stepping down‚ be provided with security and an official vehicle‚ an office and a secretary and be entitled to free domestic flights on the national airline.
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The so-called state-of-the-nation speech that would take place on Thursday has been delayed by at least a week.
Heads of State ,Jacob Zuma refused to resign after the top ANC members requested him to do so on Sunday.
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The coffin case duo, Willem Oosthuyzen and Theo Jackson, have received the outcome of their petition for leave to appeal from Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein.
It was just learned that the petition has been successful, meaning that the case will be brought before the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein. A date has not been set.
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The SA Communist Party (SACP) issued a statement stating that Jacob Zuma intends to fire Cyril Ramaphosa as the country’s deputy president and replace him with his ex Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
The SAKP further claims that Zuma wants to use a Zulu regiment (Anabutho) to protect him in his post as president.
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Public healthcare services were better during apartheid than they are now under the ANC government, EFF leader Julius Malema claimed on Monday.
Malema was referring to what he called a “national health crisis”, which, he said, the EFF is planning to expose.
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A driver who transported 50 pupils in a 15-seat taxi was arrested in the Eastern Cape.
The 33-year-old taxi driver was caught in KwaDwesi, Port Elizabeth at about 07:00 on Wednesday, with more than three times the legal number of occupants in his taxi.
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The newly appointed deputy president of the ANC, David Mabuza, has received a protection order against him that prevents him from interfering with Frederick Daniel’s business interests, as well as preventing him from contacting Daniel’s family and employers.
Daniel, a developer and environmental keeper, claims that Mabuza has impaired or prevented his application for permits.
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