Long grass and unkempt sidewalks don’t seem all that unusual in Krugersdorp. But, municipal workers are rarely seen cutting grass, trimming bushes and removing trash from public grounds. And when you do see them working around town, the last thing you’d expect is to find them sleeping or socialising on the job. The News received..
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Municipal workers sleeping and not working all day in Krugersdorp? – It’s been reported that municipal workers arrive every day just to lie or sit around, making more waste than they actually clean UP
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“Whites must work for blacks,” said Malema after addressing large crowd after court appearance
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EFF leader Julius Malema told EFF supporters outside the Newcastle Magistrate’s Court in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday that he was craving for white people to work for black people. Maleme briefly appeared in court on Monday on charges relating to the violation of the 1956 Riot Laws Act. He was charged with encouraging EFF members to..
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Old SA flag is not a symbol of a crime against humanity and to ban it will infringe South Africans’ right to freedom of expression
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The Nelson Mandela Foundation announced on Monday that its case regarding the old South African flag for hate speech, unfair discrimination and harassment would be heard in the Equity Court in April. The case will be heard during the 29th and 30th of April. This comes after the foundation approached the court last March with the..
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70 of the 190 ‘death trap’ schools flagged for structural defects – recent report has laid bare just how dire the situation at many South African schools really is
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With the latest budget allocating R30 billion in funding to build new schools and maintain the existing school infrastructure, a recent report has laid bare just how dire the situation at many South African schools really is. With the budget allocation for free higher education dwarfing that for school maintenance and for building schools, there’s..
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SARS intensifying revenue collection efforts and bring to book tax dodgers – Seems like the cash strapped ANC is in dire need of money?
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The South African Revenue Service (SARS) is intensifying its effort to identify and bring to book tax dodgers. This comes after revelation that the revenue collector is launching units aimed at tackling the illicit tobacco industry and big business. The illicit economics unit was launched late last year, while the large business unit is expected..
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Farm attack horrors continues in South-Africa – Gruesome farm attack and rape in North West: ‘I prayed that the Lord’s hand would be over me’
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During a brutal farm attack on Tuesday 19 february 2019, at Makwassie in the North West. Elize Vermeulen (58) was attacked and assaulted by two black men between 13:00 and 14:00 on her farm. When one of the attackers took her to the shed and started to rape her she kept her head and just..
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It’s no secret anymore that high ranking ANC members are involved in the huge corruption and fraud that SA’s economy is currently suffering from
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News highlights over the past year are increasingly seized by reports of high-ranking ANC supporters and government members involved, or suspended, or redeployed. Every violation is due to misconduct, bribery and sexual harassment. Zuma and the Guptas were among the main role players. The latest case is known as the ANC’s acting spokesperson, Zizi Kodwa,..
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During the ANC regime, roughly R500 billion has been looted by Eskom contractors, which partly explains why South Africa is in such a big financial mess – it is unsure if the culprits will be brought to justice
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A Special Investigation Unit is currently investigation more than eleven contractors whom are suspected of robbing the power utility of billions of rand. The contractors looted R130 billion from Eskom during the construction of the two new power stations, Medupi and Kusile as well as the Ingula power station. From the so-called “inner circles” it..
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Biggest technical training university in SA is on the verge of collapse due to chaos and corruption
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The Minister of Education and Authorities was asked to investigate allegations of fraud, death threats, corruption and nepotism at the Vaal University of Technology (VUT). VUT is currently one of the largest technical training universities in the country with 20,000 students. Allegations of conflict between high-ranking officials have long been made in press reports. According..
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SA Power Ball may be corrupt – initially it was announced that the R232 million had not yielded a winner and a few days later, they sudden announced a winner announced – majority of people are now starting to assume that this is a bluff game
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South Africa’s people are apparently tired of participating in the so-called “Power Ball” gambling game which is allegedly just a money making scheme. The gambling house announced that a record amount of R232 million could be won, and initially announced that the “prize money” had not yielded a winner. A few days later it was..
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ANC regime landgrab program is used in an attempt to recruit government votes for the upcoming election
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The Department of Public Works says a “rapid follow-up” process is planned to make land available quickly to give momentum to the landgrab program. The state has a property portfolio of more than 93,000 buildings and more than 1.9 million hectares of land under the control of the Department. The government’s land-grabbing program entails that..
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Members of parliament accuse Eskom of holding SA hostage and trying to enforce money from taxpayers who are already suffering from the heavy debt of the ANC government
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Zukiswa Rantho, who led the parliamentary inquiry into Evkom’s problems, made up the former Eskom boss, Matshelo Koko, in parliament as a “servant” of the Gupta’s. She pointed him out as a liar and a possible criminal. Several speakers in parliament once again pointed out that Eskom is holding the country hostage and trying to..
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Numsa wants Gordhan’s head over extraordinarily high escalation costs at new failed power stations – according to Gordhan, power stations are “poorly designed and poorly erected”
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Trade union Numsa demanded that the Minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Gordhan, be dismissed for the extraordinarily high escalation costs at the Medupi and Kusile power stations. The construction cost has doubled to almost R292 billion and both power stations are described as “poorly designed and poorly constructed” by Gordhan. Earlier, it was confirmed that..
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Economist says Zuma government cost taxpayers about R470bn – What a waste of good money!
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Nedbank chief economist Dennis Dykes says the Zuma regime has cost South Africa R470bn. Dennis Dykes says they have done a thorough calculation that is South Africa’s loss due to corruption, maladministration and distorted policies in Jacob Zuma’s second term. He says there was an estimated loss of R140bn due to taxes lost and now..
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Illegal land grabs take place in Durban after hundreds of people who are fed up with slow pace of housing delivery allocated plots themselves and start building shacks
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Fed up with the slow pace of housing delivery, hundreds of people have invaded vacant state land earmarked for a low-cost housing project in the Cato Crest informal settlement in Durban.
The residents descended on land in Mary Thipe Road, which boarders Mayville and Manor Gardens, on Monday and Tuesday and started clearing the bushes and allocating themselves plots to start building shacks.
While many residents were not willing to be interviewed or photographed, Happy Zwane told TimesLIVE that she was clearing the bush so that she could build her two children a home to leave them with when she dies.
“I have two children and I’m not married and I want to clear a plot for them so that when I die they would have a place to live. I don’t have a place of my own because I don’t own the place I live in. So I want to live my children with a home,” she said.
Others complained about being used as voting fodder by political parties and blamed the ANC for failing to de
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