The pupils were “literally sitting on top of each other” in the 16-seat capacity Toyota Quantum, which was spotted by law enforcement on Monday at the intersection of Standford Road and Ditchling Street in Port Elizabeth. Video footage of the children being removed from the vehicle has surfaced on social media. Nelson Mandela Bay Metro..
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WATCH | Nearly 50 pupils crammed into taxi – doing it the South-African way!
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Rolling Blackouts on the cards as AMCU threaten secondary strike , AMCU represents about half of coal mine workers in SA
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The tussle between Sibanye-Stillwater and the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) has reached new heights. The trade union, whose membership also includes coal mine workers, has teased a secondary strike and this could affect load shedding too. Why is AMCU set to embark on a secondary strike? AMCU president, Joseph Mathunjwa, made it..
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SA characterised by chaos and violence – Angry protesters barricaded roads with burning tires and set bus alight in Eastern-Cape
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Protestors in the Gelvandale and Bethelsdorp area barricaded the main roads with burning tyres and stones on Stanford Road, Gail Road and other roads in the Helensvale area and in Bethelsdorp, since 06:00 on 19 February 2019. Public Order Police have been deployed in the areas of Bethelsdorp and Gelvandale and 5 protesters were arrested…
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ANC transformed the country into a disaster! In ANC-terms, the list of “transformational successes” is mind blowing, particularly seen in the context with the obsession with race representation at all costs, especially with regard to experience and skills
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After 25 years in office, the parliamentary debate on the transformation of South Africa’s economy to serve the nation is nothing more than an admission by the ANC that it failed miserably as the country’s government and that its harmful policies merely contributed to the destruction of our economy. The ANC did indeed transform our..
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Eskom and SA are paying an expensive price for ANC’s Affirmative Action Policy – white experienced and knowledgeable engineers are missing from the state entity and now experts have to come from abroad to save Eskom
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Eskom and the government’s unwavering attitude to applying Affirmative Action (RA) is now costing South Africa. Due to RA, experienced and knowledgeable engineers have left Eskom and now the Minister of Public Enterprises, Mr. Pravin Gordhan, are asking them to help save Eskom. The Freedom Front Plus has long warned that RA is harmful to..
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ANC-regime is blatantly misusing our money on its own election campaign, the Free State SOPA expenditure is going to cost the taxpayer more than R2 million
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The Free State’s State of the Province Address (SOPA) will probably cost taxpayers more than R2 million. The greater part of the expense was not budgeted for nor planned and yet the money has already been squandered without the necessary approval. The extravagant expense becomes even more unacceptable and fruitless when one takes into account..
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Major traffic warning – Johannesburg is closing down the M2 highway for repairs – SA roads and bridges are facing a crises due to lack of poor maintenance
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The City of Johannesburg has announced that it will close down the M2 highway as it begins major rehabilitation plans. In a press conference on Monday (18 February), the Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) said that it would close down the motorway between the Crown interchange and Maritzburg Street from 28 February 2019. “The closure is..
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What a check! These kids want everything on a silver platter for free – UKZN students burn mattresses in protest over ‘uncomfortable’ beds – African mentalism is destroying our country
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Fed up with the poor condition of their beds, University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) education students have resorted to setting them on fire.
Students at a university residence in Hospital Road, near Durban’s South Beach, burnt the metal frames of their beds on Sunday night to voice their dissatisfaction.
On Monday morning, burning mattresses were seen being flung out of windows at the residence, occupied by education students from the UKZN’s Edgewood campus. The protest resulted in lectures at the campus being cancelled.
Student representative council (SRC) president Sanele Hlongwa told TimesLIVE that they set their beds alight because they could no longer sleep on them.
“For ages now, students have been asking that their beds be changed. The building at Hospital Road is a university-owned building. The university has changed the beds at residences on campus. The same must be applied to off-campus residences,” said Hlongwa.
“The students are saying the i
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SA’s largest township owes Eskom R17 billion – Soweto residents respond: Hell no, we won’t pay for electricity!
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City Press visits Soweto and asks residents why they don’t pay for their electricity and how they could help Eskom to recoup the R17 billion owed by the people who live in SA’s largest township. On Wednesday morning, as load shedding hit the township of 1.3 million residents, small businesses were losing money, and children..
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Loadshedding left a trail of destruction in South Africa, weakening the poor economy by at least R10bn; this should be a costly lesson for the Ramaphosa government
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The five days of loadshedding last week left a trail of destruction in South Africa, and should be an expensive lesson for the Ramaphosa government. It was a week in which transformers exploded, damaging equipment in homes and industries, virtually irreparably damaging substations and even weakening the poor economy by at least R10bn. The load..
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Only senior ANC members have the sole right to elect SA’s president while expertise and reliability are not necessarily taken into account, meanwhile millions of voters must be satisfied with the decision
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The ANC’s senior members are the only people who have the right to choose the country’s president while millions of voters must be satisfied with it. Analysts say the state of affairs should be changed so that voters themselves can decide which person they want to vote as president of the country. The opinion was..
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ANC joiner, Max du Preez recently announced the return of his newspaper Vrye Weekblad after it was forced to close a quarter of a century ago – most likely he will use this online version as a tool to spread the ANC’s propaganda?
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The far-left Max du Preez will again try to get a newspaper going, but this time it will be an internet newspaper that will help him not to go away so soon after it has been rolled out. Du Preez decided after 25 years to try again to start a newspaper, this time the Vrye..
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Thanks to the ruling ANC regime, SA’s economy outlook is getting worse with Eskom already plunging the country deeper into debt
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In an exclusive interview conducted by Die Vryburger with a well-known political analyst, it seems that 2019 is not a year of good prospects. The anonymous expert says the projections are getting darker with Eskom, who is already plunging the country into debt with loadshedding. In addition to the enormous R2 billion it cost daily..
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Gauteng family endures Valentine’s Day nightmare – Family members were robbed and their eldest daughter raped
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Valentine’s Day turned into a nightmare for the members of a Kensington family who were the victims of a robbery. The family was inside the house when their eldest daughter was also raped during the robbery in the early hours of February 14. The spokesperson for Cleveland SAPS Captain Johan Jordaan confirmed the incident happened..
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While National Treasury and SARS scramble for money, a new focus has been placed on the revenue service’s plans to tax SA expats working abroad , who could face having 45% of their earnings over R1 million fed back to government
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South Africa’s expat tax is coming – and there’s only one way to legally avoid it. Speaking on The Money Show this week, personal financial advisor at Galileo Capital, Warren Ingram said that even though the actual rules around the tax are yet to be finalised, they are planned to come into effect in March..
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