Posts tagged with 'New South Africa'

 

Sex education taken too far in SA? Stats SA reports that well over a thousand girls under 14 years old gave birth last year!

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Well over a thousand pre-teen and early-teen girls gave birth in South Africa last year, Statistics South Africa reported on Thursday.

In the 14 months between January 2018 and February 2019, the agency said, 1,287 births were recorded to mothers between the ages of 10 and 14, based on data drawn from the department of home affairs’ National Population Register (NPR).

That does not include unregistered births, nor those that have not been properly recorded. A further 4,872 births were to mothers either younger than 10 or older than 54 – or where the mother’s age had not been recorded and might have been between 10 and 14.
The 2018 recorded births for these very young mothers was down slightly, by 1.2%, compared to the previous year.

But the large number of young mothers did not stop the trend of an increase in the average age of mothers in South Africa.

The median recorded age for mothers in 2018 was 27.9 years, Stats SA said, higher than at any point s
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Mom chops off penis of man she believes raped and murdered her daughter

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A Port Elizabeth mother accused of cutting off the penis of a man she suspected of her daughter’s rape and murder has been released on bail after a fundraising effort by a children’s organisation, which refused to see her and her seven-month-old son spend another night behind bars.

The Enough is Enough group raised money for the bail of a woman accused of castrating a man she believed raped and killed her young daughter.

Tracy Linde, the founder of Enough is Enough, told News24 that R2 000 had been raised within eight hours as news of Veronique Makwena’s inability to pay her R500 bail spread.

Sufficient funds were collected to also buy flowers for murdered five-year-old Chantel’s grave. She was reportedly raped, beaten to death with a rock and dumped in an outhouse near her family’s Rocklands home on August 3.

Makwena, her sister-in-law Noxolo Manele and friend Siyabonga Phalati have been in jail for the past two weeks after an attack on a man they believed
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Chinese ambassador spells out the blunt truths about investment in South Africa – Appears that they want to take over after incompetent ANC destroys SA

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China’s ambassador to South Africa, Lin Songtian, has made it clear: if South Africa hopes to attract the further Chinese investment it needs to resuscitate its stagnant economy and it has to renovate its infrastructure, including revitalising the governance of state-owned enterprises.

China’s ambassador to South Africa, Lin Songtian, is a master of the back-handed compliment.

Reportedly connected to the highest echelons of his government, he manages to convey tough messages to Pretoria, wrapped in layers of praise.

At a seminar at the Chinese embassy in April, for instance, he said that he “always speaks highly of South Africa”.

“Because why? Because 20 years ago South Africa was much better than China. And 10 years ago when I passed through here on the way to Malawi (to become ambassador) you were then a little better than China, in terms of infrastructure, market mechanism; the judicial system and so on.” And then he added, as if as an aftert
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Water taps run empty at Sol Plaatjies Municipality – ANC officials totally incompetant and reckless to run municipality, no wonder SA is a Sh*t hole country

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Residents in the Northern Cape municipality of Sol Plaatjies including Kimberley are still without running water.

After four days of empty taps, while promises of a new water pump have not yet delivered, people are distraught over the incompetence of the local authority.

Thousands of people in Kimberley had to make plans themselves to obtain water, and a few farmers in the vicinity rushed water to the white neighborhoods to relieve the need.

Municipal officials have asked residents to get ready for 48 hours without tap water, but it was extremely inconvenient to people when there was still no water in the taps after four days.

Strong criticism has been expressed against the incompetence and reckless manner in which ANC officials deal with the interests of the city.

Schools had to close, and hospitals were struggling to provide water to meet the critical needs of patients.

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Drought relief for Northern Cape – ANC-regime promises to assist farmers with R30m in aid– this is like a drop in the ocean

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The R30m pledge to assist farmers in the severe drought of the Northern Cape is hardly a drop in the ocean.

David Mabuza indicated that he may be visiting the drought-stricken Northern Cape to determine for himself the extent of the drought and the conditions in which the farmers find themselves.

The Department is guilty of having spent considerable time in the agricultural sector, and Mabuza owes the farmer an explanation, one of the farmers said.

Meanwhile, he promised drought relief in the form of animal feed to the area’s farmers, but farmers remained skeptical of the promise.

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Angry police officers threatened to go on strike over a contentious promotions agreement

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Angry police officers have threatened to go on strike over a contentious promotions agreement, which could hamper the police’s festive-season crime crackdown.

This is despite being categorised as essential services staff who are barred from withdrawing their labour

Police anger stems from accusations that Police Minister Bheki Cele reneged on his promise made at a media briefing in March to, within three months, fix the promotions issue, after only 32000 members were promoted, while 45000 others remain in limbo.

Allegations are that these promotions were created to only benefit specialised and elite units – including the tactical response team, commonly known as Amaberete – at the expense of rank-and-file, visible and station officers, as well as detectives, among other members.

An agreement signed in December last year by the SA Police Service and the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) detailed a three-year programme to re-grade and promo
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SA Airline shocks the country after flight incident – faulty, secondhand component of Mango Boeing turns passengers’ flight into nightmare

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An investigation into a flight incident which occurred on a Mango Boeing 737 aircraft has unearthed the extent of South African Airways’ problems, according to a report in the Sunday Times.

Passengers on a recent Mango flight from Johannesburg to Cape Town were terrified when the aircraft suddenly nosedived, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing in Johannesburg.

The incident was more of a “jolt” than anything else, according to a Mango Airlines manager, but the plane was forced to land nonetheless, with none of the 147 passengers injured due to the event.

This problem was attributed to a faulty part which was fitted by SAA Technical. Both Mango Airlines and SAA Technical are owned by SAA.

According to the report, SAA admitted that it has been infiltrated by an international crime syndicate which has supplied the company with suspicious aircraft parts and looted “hundreds of millions of rands”.

The preliminary investigation into the Man
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184 staff members of the Gauteng Health Services own private businesses and trade with government departments

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It has been revealed that  184 staff  members of the Gauteng Health Services  own private businesses that trade with government departments including the Health Department.

These services include medical supplies, food, publications, funerals and even emergency services.

Unconfirmed reports state that staff are sometimes in the “good position” to decide for themselves that the Health Service will make use of their services.

The astronomical figures in question apparently explain why the Department remains financially in the red, while the staff not only receive salary, but also realize astronomical profits with the delivery of goods and services that could be purchased directly from the Health Services.

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Bankrupt SABC gets R2.1 billion bailout to continue mismanagement, CEO receives excessive amount of R3.9 million for 9 months of work

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Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni Abrahams has just announced that the SABC will receive R2.1bn as part of a R3.2bn bailout. The ANC regime is pumping billions of rand into the ineffective SOE and has now been warned that no further aid will be provided.

The struggling national broadcaster once again got money from the state coffers to continue its mismanagement. However, the government apparently set strict conditions before the money was released. The conditions include that the public broadcaster must present a list of identified initiatives to improve its inputs, submit ideas to save costs as well as conduct a thorough investigation into the cause of its financial collapse and a separate financial reporting for providing public and commercial broadcasting services. Abrahams says that the SABC currently meets most of the conditions set by the government.

Meanwhile, experts say that the SABC should first get rid of its weakest divisions, but its sale will
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The doctors of the future! Not a single student from 5 universities, including UCT and Wits, passed their surgery exam

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The Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA) says it is hoping that an investigation aimed at establishing why so many students failed the recent Fellowship of the College of Surgeons (FCS) exams will be wrapped up before the end of the year.

The CMSA started the investigation after only 15 of the 46 candidates who wrote the exam passed.

All of the candidates from the University of the Witwatersrand, University of Cape Town (UCT), University of Pretoria, Walter Sisulu University and University of the Free State failed the exam.

Only candidates from the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) and Stellenbosch University had passed.

‘Fair paper’

“We are concerned about the low pass rate – 44% – but we have instituted an investigation to look at the challenges students faced in the run up to the exams,” said CMSA president Dr Flavia Senkubuge.

She said an internal moderation was conducted and students said it w
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