Police Minister Fikile Mbalula on Tuesday announced a general 1.8% decrease in crime but remained scathing of efforts to curb violence. The crime statistics released in Parliament show that robberies are the highest they have been in a decade at 6% and are the cause of most aggravated contact crimes. Although the “most policeable crime”,..
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Mbalula delivers crime stats, vows to crack down on ‘lazy’ police efforts
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Squabbles dim DA’s hope of 2019 win
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Worsening relations between the Democratic Alliance and smaller opposition parties are threatening the party’s hopes of assuming power nationally in 2019 by forming a coalition government. On Tuesday, when the DA brought a motion to dissolve Parliament, its opposition allies would not support it. The smaller opposition parties accused the DA of being arrogant for..
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State machinery employed for nefarious political purposes
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Cyril Ramaphosa, responding to rumours about his private life, on Sunday spoke of the manner in which state machinery is employed for a particular political agenda that is in favour of those who prefer a specific candidate to replace Jacob Zuma as the president of the ruling party. But is the Constitution not there to..
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SAA to get R10bn bailout from sale of government stake in Telkom
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Cash-strapped SA Airways is to get a R10-billion bailout through the sale of the government’s multibillion-rand stake in Telkom, parliament was told on Wednesday. DA MP Alf Lees dropped the bombshell in the National Assembly during question time with Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa when he presented a cabinet memorandum leaked to him as a member..
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Makhosi Khoza, African National Congress MP, hits back at claims that she ‘insulted’ ANC colleagues.
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Makhosi Khoza has denied she insulted ANC colleagues following a boycott of a meeting she chaired last week, saying she was responding to their initial taunts. Khoza was sacked as chairperson of the portfolio committee on public service and administration last Thursday, August 17, after ANC MPs wrote a letter demanding she be removed two..
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Zuma will use the army to cling to power if he loses next week’s no confidence vote says Analyst – Can this be true?
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Political analyst and a Professor at North West University André Duvenhage is 100% confident that Jacob Zuma will lose his vote of no confidence next week, and the country should prepare for his removal. Zuma heads into next Tuesday’s ballot with his presidency edging on the brink, following ludicrous political decisions and involvement in the..
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Open voting on the motion of no confidence must not take place under Mbete
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Political parties represented in parliament have had until the end of last week to make submissions to the speaker of parliament, Baleka Mbete, on the motion of no confidence that will soon be voted against Jacob Zuma. The UDM of Bantu Holomisa has taken the matter of a secret ballot to the Constitutional Court, which..
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Why is Bathabile Dlamini licking a cup in parliament?
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Whatever the social development minister is drinking must have been so good she could not let a single drop go to waste. A video of Social Development Minister and ANC Women’s League leader Bathabile Dlamini in parliament has emerged that once again triggers questions about her sobriety. In the video, the minister can be seen..
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Urgent review of death penalty for South-Africa proposed at National Assembly
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On Thursday, DA MP Zak Mbhele proposed in the National Assembly the urgent need to review death penalty following the recent spate of brutal killings of women in the country. Death Penalty Review: Death sentences are seen as cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual. New..
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Jeff Radebe is in hot water over sexting sex scandal
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Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe is embroiled in a text sex scandal that threatens to torpedo his ambitions for higher office. Radebe, the country’s longest-serving cabinet minister, is in hot water for raunchy text and e-mail communication in which he asks for nude pictures of a 29-year-old Union Buildings staffer, Siyasanga Mbambani. In one..
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It is OK to abuse tax money as long as you beat a ‘deadline’ when a new law comes into effect
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Public officials who abused taxpayers’ money to get themselves government tenders amounting to R48 million are legally off the hook. More than 200 state employees, who were reported to management for dodgy dealings, couldn’t be touched because a new law hadn’t come into effect yet. And government can’t do anything about it, according to Eugene..
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The SABC wants you to PAY PAY PAY for the sins of Hlaudi
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Look we’ve all heard quite a few ridiculous things come from government officials over the years, we’re even used to ridiculous things coming out of the SABC (#RememberHlaudi). It seems though, that the SABC may still be on the crazy train, that’s if you listen to the latest comment by their CEO at least… Channel24..
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Mugabe declared that Zimbabwe most developed country after SA at the World Economic Forum on Africa
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President Robert Mugabe has told the world that his country is the second most developed in Africa in comments that are likely to befuddle suffering Zimbabweans. The Zimbabwean leader is out in South Africa’s port city of Durban, venue for the World Economic Forum on Africa. Reports from the international convention say President Mugabe took..
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EXACTLY HOW LONG WILL SOUTH AFRICA BE ABLE TO CONCEAL MUSLIM TERRORIST CAMPS?
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Right across the globe western countries are beginning to hit back at Muslim extremists. Not only politically like in Europe, but also increasingly military. South Africa, with the ANC government themselves coming from a terrorist background, is keeping a low profile. Even joining the Brics-grouping and allowing thousands of Pakistani and Chinese immigrant illegally, the..
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Legal battle to bring an end to quotas in SA sport begins
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The South African Rugby Union (SARU), Cricket South Africa (CSA), Athletics South Africa (ASA) and Netball South Africa (NSA) were challenged to defend their racial quota targets before the Labour Court in court papers served with the court this morning. The papers were served by labour movement Solidarity and minority rights group AfriForum. Both parties..
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