The loss of four schools to arson in a week carries a cost of as much as R160-million if government needs to rebuild them. The human cost is to the hundreds of children affected by the vandalism. Yet the culprits evade repercussions.
The Department of Basic Education – which is affected by budget cuts – is outraged at this state of affairs.
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In an in-depth interview with the Turkish-based 24-hour news network, the firebrand politician warned of South Africa descending into an anarchic revolution if things continue the way they have been.
“I can’t give you a guarantee of the future,” he said. “Especially when things are going the way they are.”
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The ANC in the North West has decided that Supra Mahumapelo will remain a member of the provincial legislature and will continue drawing a salary funded by taxpayers.
He resigned as premier two weeks ago following widespread accusations of corruption and maladministration that led to violent protests across the province.
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Proposal of political analyst: ‘We don’t just want land, we want property too’
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The City of Johannesburg has given the African National Congress (ANC) until Friday to pay the metro R300,000 in legal fees or face having its property at Luthuli House attached.
Last week the city obtained a writ of execution against the governing party for its failure to settle the amount.
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Two schools were set alight in Mpumalanga on Friday, just three days after another school was burned in the North West.
In a series of tweets on Saturday, Basic Education department spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga alleged that protesters unhappy with by-election burned the two schools on Friday.
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When we thought this country was already bursting at the seams recently with race and racism discourses and often accompanying invectives, we probably did not anticipate yet another combustible manifestation of South Africa’s most notorious malady.
Certainly not in the hallowed chambers of Parliament. But that is exactly where it burst forth once more.
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It is interesting how the EFF has come out in defence of state capture kingpin Tom Moyane .
Adv Dali Mpofu is the lawyer of Moyane . Look at this pic . It explains it all . Here is Julius Malema with a lot of underworld figures . On the left is Mickey Schultz and Adriano Mazotti – tax dodger ,tobacco smuggler and EFF funder . On the right is one or other Pakistani crook . Forgot his name now . Its also one of the reasons why Shivambu attacked Ismail Momoniat of Treasury .EFF want Moyane back, because Moyane probably knows some secrets about Malema’s tax affairs.
Posted by: Daniel Sutherland
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Yesterday, 6 June 2018, during a media conference, the mayor of the Mangaung Metro Municipality (Bloemfontein, Dewetsdorp, Van Stadensrus, Wepener and Soutpan), Ms Olly Mlamleli, indicated that she is going to propose that the Metro must buy between 1000 and 2000 tickets for the Bloemfontein Celtic soccer match and then hand these tickets out to the poor.
The ANC government is only interested in short term politics and the proposed purchase and distribution of the soccer tickets can be seen as a desperate attempt by the ANC to hold onto political power.
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Former president Jacob Zuma has issued a stern warning that he will not sit back and watch his critics provoking him.
Zuma was a keynote speaker at the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) meeting on free education held in Durban on Wednesday.
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Cosatu has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to sack health minister Aaron Motsoaledi, arguing that he is directly responsible for the continued deterioration of the healthcare system in the country.
“People are losing their lives on a daily basis and this has reached crisis levels. What has disappointed Cosatu the most is Minister Motsoaledi’s denialism and scapegoating.”
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” If there is a white person in the room, we think that’s the person in charge,” Maimane said in an interview with Sunday Times, adding that he made a mistake keeping Helen Zille in the DA after he took over leadership.
Helen Zille should have been removed from decision-making structures after she stepped down as party leader, DA leader Mmusi Maimane has said.
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EFF commander-in-chief Julius Malema was filmed making comments at a rally, where he accused news network eNCA of openly supporting the President, and the ‘white owned media’ of trying to ‘impose Ramaphosa’ on South African voters.
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NONE SO BLIND…
This Mampara lives in his own world where he sees no evil, and hears no evil. After all the evidence that has been published showing that his BFFs the Gupta family looted state coffers with the help of his ministers and senior officials, Zumampara still believes state capture does not exist.
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In this video by Willem Petzer we see a clip where Julius Malema, the leader of the EFF admits that black people are not native to South Africa. And this from someone who is advocating the killing of the boers (farmers), Boers being a broader term for the whites in the country.