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E-toll system not going anywhere – According Finance Minister, Gautengers must just except their fate and pay up

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Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said on Wednesday during his interim budget speech that the offending e-toll project will continue and consumers will be held responsible for the costs, with payments now being tightened and regulated. The people of the Central Transvaal will have to fall in love with the fact that Minister  is not prepared to abandon the e-toll system.

The government will continue its strategy of keeping consumers accountable for the cost of maintaining Gauteng’s highways. The ANC’s policy of the user must apparently pay money only in the case of e-tolls applied on certain roads.

He further said that it is because of consumers who fail to support this project that the province’s roads are deteriorating further. “We can’t maintain the network.”

“I encourage South Africa to please settle their accounts. We need to establish a culture of payment because the government’s services can only continue if all consumers, who can pay, do pay, ”he added
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SA debt burden sky-high, municipalities bankrupt, SOE’s a huge burden on taxpayers’ shoulders, and ANC regime not capable to find solutions that are feasible and effective

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Finance Minister, Tito Mboweni issued a cold warning Wednesday in his Medium Term Budgetary Framework (MTBR), and said if action is not taken urgently, South Africa could end up in a debt trap, with rising interest payments on debt, higher interest rates and even higher unemployment. This admonition comes amid a sharp lower adjustment in the expected economic growth for this year – from 1.5% in February’s budget to just 0.5%.

Minister Mboweni painted a dark picture, but not as dark as it should be, economists say.

Rating agencies may welcome its offering, and markets may be somewhat upset about its view of certain aspects of growth and debt burden.

But it also ends there, because the same agencies and markets may react negatively because Mboweni provided a clear lack of broader details on how all the chaos would be reversed.

A shocking interim budget has hit South Africa because with a promise of a budget and growth that is 2% higher over the next three yea
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Taxpayers fork out millions for 703 vacant state-owned buildings

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The poor management of state-owned buildings costs the country’s taxpayers millions of rands annually.
The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure owns about 81,000 buildings, 703 of which are vacant. Only the property tax on these unused buildings amounted to R36 million in the 2018/19 financial year.

In addition, there is a major backlog with the maintenance of buildings and it is estimated to cost about R74 billion to fully renovate all the buildings.

To aggravate the problem, various government departments’ monthly rents are outstanding for a period of longer than five years. This amount is about R600 million. Treasury owes itself R127m in arrears.

If the Justice, Correctional Services and Higher Education Departments can pay their rent, the other departments can do so.

This crisis needs urgent attention and is resolved. The FF Plus will ask that the relevant portfolio committee deal with this to ensure that the outstanding fees are collected bef
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SA government hospitals degenerate into abattoirs and mortuaries! – Nearly 4,000 deaths reported in Gauteng state hospitals in 2018 due to medical negligence

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Intervention must take place at an extremely high level immediately to eradicate the crisis currently prevailing in state hospitals. It was revealed today that there were more than 3,832 deaths in Gauteng hospitals in 2018 due to medical negligence.

Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku provided the figures in response to a written question from Jack Bloom, a DA member of the Gauteng legislature.

So-called serious misfortunes (SAEs) are described as incidents in which unintentional harm is done to a patient because of something done, or not done to a patient, rather than due to a patient’s illness or underlying medical condition.

Most of these incidents – a total of 1,763 – were reported at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. This hospital is the third largest in the world and serves as a referral hospital for patients nationwide. Nearly 150,000 patients are admitted there annually and 500,000 outpatients are treated.
This hospital is followed by Steve Bik
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The ANC can no longer rule South Africa – unemployment rate highest in 11 years and increased to 29,1%

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South Africa’s unemployment rate has increased by 0,1 of a percentage point to 29,1 percent in the third quarter compared to the second quarter, the highest it has been in 11 years.

Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) said on Tuesday that the number of employed persons increased by 62 000 while the number of unemployed persons increased by 78 000, resulting in an increase of 141 000 in the labour force.

The South African working-age population increased by 149 000 in the third quarter compared to the second quarter

There were approximately 10,3 million persons aged 15–24 years in the quarter, and 32.3 percent (or 3.3 million) of them were not in employment, education or training (NEET).

The number of discouraged work-seekers increased by 44 000 while the number of people who were not economically active for reasons other than discouragement decreased by 35 000 between the second and third quarters, resulting in a net increase of 9 000 in the not economic
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ANC’s ‘soft porn’; curriculum apparently focuses on black students to reduce pregnancies among school-age children – experts believe the plan will increase this further

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The proposed curriculum planned by the ANC’s Department of Education on sex education is enough to ignite the country. The most obscene topics are contained in the proposed curriculum, and experts believe this will further increase the pregnancy among black pupils.

According to FORSA (Freedom of religion South Africa), the Department of Education in South Africa has changed their curriculum to put “soft porn” in very explicit sex in the subject, life orientation.

Micheal Swane, Director of FORSA writes:

– In Grade 4, children learn from Masturbation and “each other’s genitals” in group discussions.
– In Grade 5, children learn about lesbian and gay sexual relationships, as well as molestation.
– In Grade 8, children learn, in detail, how to have Oral, Vaginal, and Anal sex.

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Call to save water in Gauteng: Day Zero is becoming more and more a reality after no rain falls and dam levels drop dangerously

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Lindiwe Sisulu, Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation (DWS), expressed her concern after the rain stayed away and dam levels dropped dangerously fast. She made a plight that people must immediately start saving water to avert a possible Day Zero in Gauteng. She announced in Johannesburg on Monday that Gautengers use an average of 320 liters of water per person per day, while the acceptable world standard is 170 liters per person per day.

In recent weeks, the Transvaal and Free State experienced a prolonged heat wave, which caused water consumption to rise sharply and evaporation in the large storage dams was much faster than predicted.

With the Vaal Dam already under 50% of its capacity, and other dams having as little as 20% in content, there is reason to worry.

The inflow of water from the Lesotho Highlands has been temporarily halted to provide essential maintenance to the tunnels. The maintenance is expected to be completed by the end of Nove
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Friction among the Red Brigade? – party members dissatisfied over leader figures and believe they should be replaced

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The dissatisfaction among  party members in the Red Brigade over other leaders who make their own decisions before the conference, has now led to tension.

There are elements now that believe a new leadership with Malema and Shivanbu in their place will save the EFF from falling apart, but the other leaders need to be replaced, it said.

According to the new turn, at least six leaders will drop out of the bus, and other members will have to be elected, but analysts reckon this will further increase tensions in the party.

Some members of the party say the upcoming conference is the watershed event, and it will only be a formality to get the six new leaders in their positions.

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SA, which was the world’s largest gold producer, has been struggling to stay afloat because of black zama-zama’s

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The Gold industry is under tremendous pressure in South Africa, and the main reason for this is attributed to blacks illegally extracting gold.

Heavily armed gold thieves working in mines are constantly on the lookout for potential threats, and claims that there are police officers working together complicate the task of law enforcement.

The illegal diggers trade the gold on the black market at as much as R690,000 per kilogram.

For over two decades, the industry has been struggling to stay afloat because of the illegal miners known as the zama-zama.

Where SA was the largest producer of gold, it has now fallen back to the third position, citing two reasons. The exploitation by the zama-zamas, and secondly, the unfair wage demands as well as labor practices, and unions’ persistent strikes have nearly hit the industry.

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Sasol loses 44% of value – CEO’s obliged to resign after controversial Lake Charles Chemicals Project

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The CEOs of the Sasol, Bongani Nqwababa and Stephen Cornell agreed to resign after an independent investigation into a highly controversial US project.

The so-called Lake Charles Chemicals Project, which is said to have seven production units that would produce different chemical products, one of which is a type of plastic, would have cost as much as $ 12 billion (about R190 billion).

Over the past year, the company lost about 44% of its value, reflecting directly on the two joint executives and triggering their resignations.

The independent investigation found that the two heads were directly responsible for the controversial projects, and were persuaded to resign after negotiations.

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