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We are stuck with Zuma: Thousands march against state capture, corruption

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We are stuck with Zuma: Thousands march against state capture, corruption

Workers across the country downed tools, marched to key points in various cities, and demanded an end to corruption and state capture. All nine provinces in the country engaged in the protected strike action today, which saw thousands of Cosatu supporters stream into public spaces, with many carrying placards with the recurring theme: [Jacob] Zuma..
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Who’s keeping an eye on South Africa’s spies? Nobody, and that’s the problem

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Who's keeping an eye on South Africa’s spies? Nobody, and that’s the problem

Once again South Africa’s intelligence services are embroiled in controversy, apparently involved in dirty tricks and criminal activity. New evidence of this has come to light against the backdrop of the presidential succession race in the governing ANC. One of the contenders, deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa, has been smeared in an apparent covert operation. It..
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Malema: When ‘they took the land’, it was called colonialism, but when blacks try to do the same, it’s called land theft’

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Malema: When ‘they took the land’, it was called colonialism, but when blacks try to do the same, it’s called land theft’

When South Africans were busy celebrating Heritage Day on Sunday, EFF leader Julius Malema was sharing his frustration on the issue of land. The EFF leader says when ‘they took the land’, it was called colonialism, but when blacks try to do the same, it’s called land theft’. In a series of tweets Malema said..
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Zwelithini ‘not paid what he deserves’ as a king – You got to be joking

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Zwelithini 'not paid what he deserves' as a king - You got to be joking

IS HE WORTH IT? King Goodwill Zwelithini’s family has grown over the years, and with it the amount the taxpayer continues to fork out to fund it Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has lashed out at the provincial government‚ accusing them of failing to pay him what he deserves. The monarch was speaking at a King..
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Tshwane biking cops are for whites‚ says ANC

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Tshwane biking cops are for whites‚ says ANC

The African National Congress Tshwane Caucus has condemned the decision of the capital to introduce metro cops on bicycles in Hatfield. In a statement released on Friday‚ the opposition said the move made by Tshwane mayor Solly Msimanga was aimed at protecting whites. “The African National Congress Tshwane Caucus condemns the actions of the DA..
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South Africa tells us that something is wrong – but we don’t listen anymore

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Is it really so that we don’t listen any more? In the aftermath of the Tumi Morake debacle that was one of the main accusations – we don’t listen any more. I don’t know if this is true, all I know is that we have certainly stopped listening to what South Africa herself wants to tell us Because when a white farmer is murdered in the most gruesome way on his farm, and the media keeps quiet about it – South Africa tells us that something is wrong. When coloured children on the Cape Flats are murdered and tortured by gangs and the provincial government keeps quiet about it – South Africa tells us that something is wrong. When an elderly woman is raped and her rapist says: “I did it because she is white” – South Africa tells us that something is wrong. When an Indian shopkeeper is robbed and stabbed – South Africa tells us that something is wrong. When a radio broadcaster openly offends a minority group by calling them bullies and gets away with it because she “only said what she felt” – South Africa tells us that something is wrong. How can it ever be right to offend and then justify your refusal to apologise? And when I look at a man and hate him purely because he is black or white or coloured, not for what he says or does, but for what he was born to be – then South Africa tells us that something is wrong When we then respond by saying: “No, things are not ideal, but life is much better for many people”, then there must be something terribly wrong with us, because then we don’t listen to South Africa any more. If a better life for some must come at the cost of blood and humiliation and blame and hatred and racism and prejudice and injustice and crime, then we cannot justify that improvement any more. The cost of believing that South Africa is doing well, is becoming too much now. It is not me saying this, it is South Africa saying this. Because if we have to destroy each other in this country, then we have to admit that we are on a course of destroying ourselves as well. We have always lived together in this country. I, as a white man, was born here and I love this country above all others. I belong here. And I am more than prepared to admit that so does the black man and woman, the coloured man and woman, the Indian man and woman. But then we must stand up, white South Africans and black and coloured and Indian and immigrant South Africans and say in Afrikaans and English and isiXhosa and in Zulu and Pedi and Fanagalo: There is something very wrong! When I have to live in fear and suffer humiliation and stereotyping and insult for who I am and what I believe, that cannot be right. Let us take the lessons which we have learned from the past 23 years and go back to the drawing board and start all over again! We need to figure out a way in which no man in this country has to live by the grace and the rules and the judgements of another. We need to have the right to be who we are, associate with whom we want to and each to call his own little piece of land under this great Southern sun: “Home.” And for that we cannot look to those career politicians in Parliament with their corrupt attitudes and their fancy old suits and diabolical fake smiles on posters when it becomes election time, only waiting for the time to pass to retire with their pension and their loot. We need to look to ourselves and say: If we are prepared to accept the status quo and to keep on justifying it with empty words, we have to accept that we are not listening to what South Africa tells us – and then there must indeed be something terribly wrong with us. We need to stop saying what is owed to us by the other person, and start asking: What do I owe myself and the people I am part of? This weekend we celebrate Heritage Day. Is this not the day on which we must now ask: What heritage will we leave behind? Will it be said of us: They were the last South Africans? If we have to admit the failure of the current dispensation and get rid of the causes of this failure, then that is what we must do. If we have to sit down and redesign South Africa to give each and every man and woman their due, their right, their heritage – then that is what we must do. And if every person in this country have to swallow the humiliation of admitting that we went wrong over the last few years, for our own sakes, then that is what we must do. If we cannot recognize and admit that some things, too many things, in South Africa are not right, then indeed something must be very wrong with us. Read the original article by Daniel Lötter on Front Nasionaal SA – blad South Africa Today – South Africa News

Is it really so that we don’t listen any more? In the aftermath of the Tumi Morake debacle that was one of the main accusations – we don’t listen any more. I don’t know if this is true, all I know is that we have certainly stopped listening to what South Africa herself wants to..
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Energy minister slips up on oil plan

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Energy minister slips up on oil plan

Minister of Energy Mmamoloko Kubayi is backtracking on the investigation into the sale of the country’s oil reserves, say highly placed sources. But the minister has denied this outright. In May, Kubayi announced in Parliament that she would investigate the controversial sale by the Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF) of 10-million barrels of the country’s fuel..
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Fikile Mbalula: Most farmers are not a “bunch of racists”

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Fikile Mbalula: Most farmers are not a "bunch of racists"

Most farmers are not a “bunch of racists”‚ says Police Minister Fikile Mbalula. “There are rotten potatoes which from time to time play themselves out in different episodes‚” he told a media conference in Pretoria on Wednesday. “There will be from time to time episodes that play themselves out in terms of racists attacks‚” Mbalula..
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Jacaranda FM Advertiser ‘Had Enough’, Pulls Advertising Worth R100K

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Jacaranda FM Advertiser 'Had Enough', Pulls Advertising Worth R100K

“Black people should stop saying we [white people] are to blame for their problems”.  Eric Barnard Meubels in Pretoria has pulled its advertising from Jacaranda FM because they do not want to be associated with a station that “gets involved with politics and mix it with business”. Manager and director of the popular furniture store,..
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Suspect walks into cash depot empty-handed and leaves R9-million richer without any effort

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Suspect walks into cash depot empty-handed and leaves R9-million richer

The Hawks in the Northern Cape on Tuesday say they are still looking for a man who duped a cash depot into handing over R9-million to him. The man and his accomplice took off with the loot without any aggression‚ without any hostages‚ without any guns or explosives. The tale of how they made off..
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Thousands of illegal KZN ANC members uncovered ahead of December conference

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Thousands of illegal KZN ANC members uncovered ahead of conference

A northern KwaZulu-Natal councillor has claimed that they have uncovered thousands of illegal ANC members ahead of the elective conference in December. ANC councillor in Pongola‚ Nqaba Mkhwanazi‚ who gave evidence on Monday at the Moerane Commission which is sitting in KwaZulu-Natal to investigate political violence in the province‚ cited factionalism and corruption as being..
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EXCLUSIVE: Cash Paymaster Systems made R1-billion profit paying social grants

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EXCLUSIVE: Cash Paymaster Systems made R1-billion profit paying social grants

Over the past five years Cash Paymaster Systems recorded a pre-tax profit of R1.1-billion from paying social grants on behalf of the government, the outsourced service provider told the Constitutional Court on Tuesday. After tax the net profit came to R705-million, the now infamous American-listed company said. That translates to a profit to shareholders of..
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Mother of Mitchells Plain accused of killing newborn, hiding body under mattress

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Mother of Mitchells Plain accused of killing newborn, hiding body under mattress

A Mitchells Plain mother has been arrested after she allegedly choked her newborn son to death and hid him under a mattress. According to a source close to the case, the woman was pregnant by a married man. The incident happened at the mother’s Beacon Valley home on Saturday afternoon. A suspicious visitor told her..
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Home Affairs Director-General placed on ‘suspension’ without any reason given – Government is hiring and firing again

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Home Affairs Director-General placed on 'suspension' without any reason given - Government is hiring and firing againg

Home Affairs Minister Hlengiwe Mkhize has announced the department’s Director-General Mkuseli Apleni, has been placed on precautionary suspension as of Monday. The minister announced the suspension in a terse, one-line statement on Monday afternoon.The sanction was confirmed in a one-sentence statement released by Mkhize without any reason given. Apleni’s tenure at the department of Home..
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Zumas house of cards tumbling around him

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Zumas house of cards tumbling around him

On this day in 2008, the then ANC national executive committee (NEC) met to deliberate on the controversial Nicholson judgment. The die had already been cast. Outside the Pietermaritzburg High Court a week earlier, the then ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema had declared “the problem in the country is Thabo Mbeki and his people”…
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