The holiday has already begun for many, and will have to pay more for petrol and less for diesel from Wednesday.
Petrol increases by R0-11 per liter for 93 as well as for 95 degrees, but diesel decreases in price by R0-18 and paraffin decreases by Ro-21 for December month.
Economic experts say the rise in gasoline prices, and the slight drop in diesel and paraffin prices, could be attributed to the weak Rand, which just failed to return to its levels two years ago.
In Pretoria’s western area, at the Kit Kat Plaza, a cash van was robbed and at least one security officer was wounded in the incident.
The armed robbers did not hesitate to pull the trigger and took off with an unknown amount.
A police spokesman says one suspect fled in an ambulance,
On the same day, a second money van was pulled down by three armed villains about 50 kilometers north of Pretoria, on the N1 near Hammanskraal.
The wagon was forced by another vehicle to stop by driving into it, after which the gunmen acted.
The incidents were later described by a reader as still being a Black Friday event, because a lot of money was carried away by a small number of armed thieves.
Several people expressed the opinion that the two robberies were probably carried out by the same team of thieves, and that they had inside information.
The case, which has been pending against the Ford company since 2017, has now come to a final conclusion and it has been decided that the motor giant will have to fork out millions of Rands, according to a court finding.
The Ford company, which initially denied that its Kuga model contained serious and dangerous flaws, eventually had to admit that the vehicle imposes danger to human life.
The Ford Kuga 1.6 EcoBoost model that caught fire and caused one person’s death is considered by car owners as a sufficient reason to close the manufacturer’s doors in South Africa because no amount can compensate for the loss of one’s life.
Ford must pay R35m in fines in terms of the final outcome.
All owners whose cars have failed, must receive R50,000 in compensation, which in the experts’ opinion is a very unfair decision, as some owners have suffered far more than R60,000.
There is an option that Ford owners may continue to negotiate with the company if they are no
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Eskom says the Medupi power station’s Phase 2 stage is in operation, making it part of the power supply’s overall electricity output.
The announcement comes 12 years after the first donation was made to set up Medupi, but during that time, South Africa paid much more for the erection than initially budgeted.
In addition to building the power plant more than 200% more expensive, the cost of more than R150bn has shown that South Africa is not only irresponsible in managing its spending, but is also equally irresponsible in appointing those who had to do the erection.
Economists say the construction of Medupi and Kusile power plants eventually totaled R234 billion, but informed sources indicate that much more money is needed to bring the two power plants to full capacity.
The cost of the two exchanges further increased South Africa’s enormous debt burden, and analysts reckon it will take at least 40 years before Eskom’s two exchanges will be paid, but by that
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The ANC’s president is not above the law, and his so-called cases of dismissing 22 of his 46 farm workers could land him in the Labor Court. Cyril Ramaphosa dismissed the farm workers in his service, and used the excuse that it was a business decision because foot-and-mouth disease could threaten his cattle herd. No one has yet been able to explain what the illness has to do with his staff’s dismissal, and now unions apparently want to drag their president to the Labor Court.
The farm workers’ union, Fawu, is apparently at the forefront and has threatened to take President Cyril Ramaphosa to task over allegations that he retrenched over half of his Ntaba Nyoni farm staff, in October. According to the union they are protecting their members against “unlawful” retrenchment, but whether the union has the courage to act against its president will learn the time, political analysts say. What is unfair, however, is that the president may not be held accountable f
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The two latest incidents in which two trains of Metro Rail in the Western Cape went up in flames bring the struggling entity even closer to a financial abyss.
The trains were destroyed by the fire, and workers using the service later had to make other arrangements to get to the workplace.
Metro rail’s total number of trains and passenger vans have been attacked and burned by vandals over the past few years so that they currently have less than half their trains left in the Western Cape.
The Metro Rail said in a statement that the Cape Town railway station platforms 9, 10, 15 and 16 were so affected by the fires that they were closed, and that the railway station would also be closed for several hours.
All train services are canceled until later notice, and commuters will have to make use of alternative transport.
The damage from the fires amounted to almost R500,000, and the future of train transport for workers has now been in the balance.
Nearly 18
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Workers are often unaware that they have certain pension benefits that must be paid to them upon leaving work.
As a result, unclaimed amounts are already worth billions of Rand, which is estimated to be as much as R4 billion accumulated in two unions.
It seems that a total of more than R40 billion has been raised over the past two to three decades, and no one is helping service-leavers to say they should apply for their pension benefits.
The information was disclosed after an independent entity conducted research and found that no one informed workers about their rights in this regard.
If certain pensions are taken into account outside the Pension Funds Act, then the total accumulated amount is R51 billion that has not been claimed.
“From now on, every model will be seriously monitored, and those who show up with corruption plans will be asked to leave,” was ANC President Ramaphosa’s warning during the kick-off opportunity of his R25 billion project.
Ramaphosa undertook to visit the Northern Transvaal for two days to attend the two separate projects kick-off events.
The two projects being undertaken are of paramount importance and can have a significant impact on many people in the area’s lives if managed properly.
The projects have apparently attracted the interest of various institutions that have bought in, and are apparently part of a so-called multi-billion Rand development model of the district.
Waterberg District is believed to be leading the mining towns and agricultural divisions involving factories, and the program is expected to reduce the unemployment rate currently being experienced.