Pretoria’s homeless want keys to unused government building in Salvokop. It makes no sense to sleep in the streets when government owns a brand new building that hasn’t been unused for years since it was built. This sentiment was expressed by leaders of Pretoria homeless people who yesterday gathered outside the locked building in Salvokop…
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Pretoria’s homeless want keys to government building that has been unused for five years
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IN THE NAME OF ZUMA – From Death Squad to Dead Squad: Nhleko’s Chinese-trained ‘secret agents’ left stranded and fearful
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Members of a ‘death squad’, recruited by former Minister of Police Nathi Nhleko and trained between March and May 2016 by the elite Chinese People’s Armed Forces Academy, are living in a twilight zone, seemingly left to fend for themselves and in fear for their lives. When an approach to the Office of the Inspector-General..
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EFF defends call for land occupations: “We will intensify our struggle for expropriation of land without compensation … It’s not likely to get easier for anyone”
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EFF Gauteng Provincial Head, Mandisa Mashego, has denied that the EFF’s call for land occupations has impeded on the City of Johannesburg’s ability to provide basic services in Alexandra. Mashego was responding to an allegation made by former MEC of Human Settlements Dikgang Uhuru Moiloa at a prior sitting of the Alexandra inquiry on 15..
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Ace Magashule is playing Russian roulette with our future – doesn’t give a damn about you and your ability to feed your kids, educate them, or provide a better future for them
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If he did, he would not be in open warfare with the president and his economic cluster over the mandate of the Reserve Bank and its ownership. Frankly, a guy with no grip on the concept of quantitative easing and its likely consequences for a suffering country should not be making pronouncements on policy, regardless..
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Why Ramaphosa may have wanted to tie white people to trees – SA economy is dying while high-skilled emigration continues!
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Prolonged low economic growth could lead to even more economic flight by those with skills and capital, regardless of racial grouping. Is South Africa’s “radical transformation” from a leader to a laggard in the upper middle-income countries the cause or the result of a brain drain? It is hard to tell. What is certain is..
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HANKEY FARM RAPE VICTIM SPEAKS OUT IN COURT! – What a sad state of affairs our country is busy falling into – Irresponsible statements made by certain politicians fan this wave of crime!
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‘ My great-grandfather, grandfather and father were all farmers. I married a farmer whose family have farmed their land for 3 generations. It is with deep sadness that I stand before you today and say that neither of my sons will want to farm in South Africa! For 17 years I had the privilege of..
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Another ANC MP bites the dust: Tokozile Xasa is the fifth to want out of the National Assembly, resigns from Parliament
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Former Minister of Sport and Recreation, Tokozile Xasa, has officially become the fifth member of the ANC to tender her resignation from Parliament in the past two weeks. Why is Tokozile Xasa resigning? As reported by The Citizen, the party revealed that it had acknowledged Xasa’s intention to remove herself from her Parliamentary seat. Although,..
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Former SA President, Zuma has been charged with corruption linked to a multi-billion dollar arms deal – However, he denies any wrongdoing
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Why was there an arms deal? – Newly democratic South Africa decided its military needed to be overhauled – and five years after coming into power following the end of white minority rule, the African National Congress (ANC) government signed contracts totally 30bn rand ($5bn; £3bn in 1999). The deal involved companies from Germany, Italy,..
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SA taxpayers to fund yet another government bailout – Cash-strapped SAA requests R4bn to survive current financial year after years of mismanagement and corruption
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South African Airways (SAA) appointed its head of operations as acting chief executive on Friday and said it needs R4-billion from the government to survive the current financial year and allow it to renegotiate loan terms with banks. Zukisa Ramasia becomes interim CEO after Vuyani Jarana unexpectedly resigned on Sunday, after less than two years..
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Kusile under financial crossfire – R36 billion owed for alleged arrears for semi-completed power station with design flaws
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Kusile, as one of the two new Eskom mega power stations that is supposed to deliver to supply sustained electrical power for the country, is apparently caught up in financial crossfire. In addition to the enormous escalation of construction costs due to mismanagement and corruption, contractors at the semi-completed power station claims amid design defects..
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Unemployment rates rise to 27.6% and remain one of SA’s biggest challenges
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Statistics South Africa announces that unemployment rose by 0.5 percentage points to 27.6% in the first quarter of this year. The figures confirm economists’ presumption that economic growth in the first quarter was negative and unemployment remains one of SA’s biggest challenges. The SA economy started on a bitter note this year with unemployment rising..
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Bankrupt Eskom’s CEO resigns due to stress- For the sake of the whole of South Africa who will risk taking over?
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Eskom is looking for a new CEO after the current incumbent Phakamani Hadebe resigned after less than a year due to stress. His predecessors either left their jobs due to personal reasons, were dismissed or went away under a cloud of corruption. Energy expert Ted Blom believes that Hadebe’s resignation did not come as a..
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Junk status winks for Mangaung Metro with liabilities exceeding assets; officials receive generous salaries and cellphone stipends, while levels of service delivery are non-existent
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The ANC-controlled Mangaung Metro faces junk status after Moody’s rating agency said further downgrading would be considered if the municipality do not urgently get its household in order. The Bloemfontein municipality is in truth already bankrupt with liabilities exceeding assets of nearly R1bn and with over R6bn of outstanding debt. In fact, Moody’s indicated..
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Markets give negative verdict, dark picture is being sketched despite the political euphoria surrounding Ramaphosa
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According to the latest economic figures recently released by Stats SA from the SA, a negative picture is being sketched despite the political euphoria surrounding president Cyril Ramaphosa and the steps he takes to curb corruption. These figures show that in the first quarter of this year, the economic growth rate was lower than expected,..
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Trade unions are threatening to stop all flights from SAA if their demands are not met
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The unions Numsa and the SA Cabin Crew Association demand that the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SAA, Vuyani Jarana, be reinstated immediately in his post. This comes after Jarana announced that he had resigned. The two unions say they will stop all flights from SAA if this requirement is not met. According to them,..
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