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Another black school up in flames reducing the number of schools for black learners

Posted on 16/01/2020 Leave a comment

Another school was burned down by the country’s “barbarians” reducing the number of schools meant for blacks.

The school, located in the Vanderbijlpark location, is an elementary school that suddenly leaves a large number of pupils without a classroom.

Although the authorities have ordered an investigation into the incident, it is the work of vandals who decided to burn down the school just a day before the first day of the term.

The Tokelo Secondary School in Evaton, started burning in the early hours of the morning, and no trace of the culprits was found.

The fire reportedly caused a loss of more than R4m and repairs are only expected to begin after the investigation has been completed.

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Eskom with a debt burden of R450 billion may be the downfall of ANC regime

Posted on 16/01/2020 Leave a comment

Political analysts say the actions of high-ranking officials in Eskom could lead to the demise of the ANC government.

The pressure is mounting on the ruling ANC regime from the inner circles as well as opposing structures as well as from extreme groups to act against those responsible for the mess in which the power supplier is currently facing its debt burden of R450 billion.

The claims are varied, but many expect the ANC to take action against Public Enterprise Minister Pravin Gordhan, who is closely concerned with Eskom’s problems.

The Red Brigade is demanding Gordhan’s sacking, while Deputy President David Mabuza himself helped to throw Gordhan under the bus.

There is also a feud against Ramaphosa, from people who believe he should have forced Eskom to stay with his company in order not to employ any loadshedding before January 13.

With all the turmoil, this could eventually lead to the disintegration of the ANC, which could have far-reaching consequ
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The largest number of unlicensed weapons in SA comes from locations and squatter camps

Posted on 16/01/2020 Leave a comment

Although the Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, did not say this prominently, it became known that the largest number of illegal weapons were handed in by people from locations and squatter camps.

Firearms can be still handed in at police stations until the end of May this year, when the official amnesty period will come to an end.

Observers have pointed out that the handing in of weapons that are likely to be smuggled into the country is now being handed over in the hope that the crime and the firearm with which the crime was committed will not be detected.

The Minister’s remark that he would like to see that no one in the country owns a weapon was not well received by Afrikaners.

The farmers themselves have also expressed concern that they will be left defenceless against the killers who focus on farms.

The arms amnesty period began on December 1, 2019 and ends on May 31 this year.

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Nine black schools in the Northern Transvaal close because of 0% pass rate

Posted on 16/01/2020 Leave a comment

At least nine schools in the Northern Transvaal are closing due to poor performance under the 2019 matric results.

The schools did not produce a matriculant who could pass the final exams this year, and the fact that 65 pupils failed last year shows that the schools are not equipped to teach pupils.

The province’s Education Department has decided to close the schools this week because a 0% pass rate is unacceptable.

All schools are in black residential areas and no white pupils are there to be taught. It is not yet known where the pupils will be transferred to after school closures.

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Outcry over appalling state of Pretoria zoo – no suitable habitat and animals not been fed for days

Posted on 15/01/2020 Leave a comment

The national zoological gardens are the largest zoo in the country but visitors felt that management was failing to provide a suitable habitat for the animals.

The welfare and care of animals at the Pretoria zoo has been questioned by animal lovers, Rekord North reports.

Several comments were posted on their Facebook page.

The national zoological gardens are the largest zoo in the country but visitors felt that management was failing to provide a suitable habitat for the animals.

Concern was raised about allegedly underfed animals, the bad smell at the flamingos enclosure, some of the animals’ water that has not been replaced in days, and the elephants’ enclosure had no water during December’s scorching heat in Pretoria.

An animal lover who recently visited the zoo and asked to remain anonymous said that justice must be done.

“The animals are in bad condition. It looks like some of the animals have not been fed in days and the water bowls have
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Watch | The SAPS of the Banana Republic can’t even do a proper march during state memorial service

Posted on 15/01/2020 Leave a comment

Late businessman, Richard Maponya, who owned a string of businesses in Soweto, including the famous Maponya Mall in Pimville, was laid to rest at West Park Cemetery in Johannesburg on Tuesday, January 14, 2020.

Maponya’s funeral service was held at the University of Johannesburg Soweto Campus on Tuesday morning. Ramaphosa declared the funeral a Special Official Funeral, category 2 – which meant that all state flags had to be flown at half-mast until the evening of the burial.

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In full recognition that this was a funeral, so we respect the family. But if the top brass of the SAPS can’t even march -it looked like a circus!

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Taxpayers fork out more than R76m for funeral cost of ANC veterans

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Public Works Minister Patricia de Lille has vowed to act against officials implicated in irregular expenditure related to the late stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s funeral and those of two other ANC veterans.

It’s alleged a service provider inflated invoices, costing taxpayers a staggering R76 million.

De Lille has reportedly recommended that government should cap state funerals.

The minister said those implicated must be called to account.

“This is an ongoing investigation. We will make sure that we get to the bottom of this. We have already taken action against four senior officials in the department.”

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De Lille reveals over 3,000 Public Works employees do business with department and 300 of those employees have their own companies

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Patricia De Lille says more needs to be done to ensure people who work for the state don’t do business with the department

Public Works Minister Patricia de Lille has revealed more than 3,700 Public Works employees are doing business with the department.

She said 300 of those employees have their own companies and, in some instances, they had not declared the conflict of interest to the department.

The latest shocking revelations come as the Public Works Department investigates irregular expenditure relating to three state funerals that cost taxpayers a whopping R76 million.

It’s alleged a service provider inflated invoices for the funerals of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former minister Zola Skweyiya and former chief of state protocol Billy Modise.

De Lille said more needed to be done to ensure people who work for the state don’t do business with the department.

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The ANC apparently paid R127 000-00 for the cake on tender.

Posted on 14/01/2020 Leave a comment

A few years ago, the then ANC City Council of Sasolburg paid for a tap repair of R250 000-00. Do you remember the gate of Estina’s farm that costed R9 000 000-00 and Ace Magashule’s website of R40 000 000-00?
Then some wonder how we could “lose” Trillions since ’94.

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Brace yourself for stage 8 #RollingBlackOuts or 10-hour daily blackout, as municipalities are preparing for the worst

Posted on 14/01/2020 Leave a comment

Eskom was forced to implement stage 6 load shedding in December – its worst ever blackout – sending the country into a panic as not many people were aware of what that stage actually meant for them.

Municipalities too, were caught off-guard, with Johannesburg electricity distributor City Power saying at the time that it had no load-shedding schedule for Stage 6.

The year is 2020, and generation and maintenance challenges continue to mount at the state company which generates 96% of South Africa’s electricity.

As a result, all municipalities have been advised to adjust their load shedding schedule up to stage 8, the Buffalo City Municipality said in a statement on Saturday (11 January).

With each stage representing a curtailment of 5% of the national load, stage 8 will equate to 40% of the load being shed, the municipality said.

Under the previous load shedding schedule, four stages were implemented with between 1,000 MW and 4,000 MW of the national
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