Posts tagged with 'Politics'

 

Political chaos reigns in Gauteng over mayor’s office – DA and EFF in battle, IFP might walk away in victory

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A political confusion is playing out in Johannesburg and Pretoria with the far left DA still trying to control the city council in both cities.

Eventually, they can become the biggest losers because of their hand around the neck politics with the radicals in the Red Brigade.

In Johannesburg, there is currently a battle going on between the DA and the Red Brigade over the mayor’s office, which now poses the possibility that the IFP will triumph in this sage while the other two are fighting.

Doubt also exists about the DA and its Red partner’s unity in Pretoria while the first sounds are heard of the Reds claiming the mayor’s office because Zille is now back in the DA.

The possibility of a motion of no confidence in the DA could also sink the ship, says political observers in Pretoria.

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Head of SASSA under investigation after being accused of abusing his power for financial gain

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Accusations are made that Themba Matlou, who heads the Social Security Agency (Sassa) in the Central Transvaal, used his office to campaign for a provincial position in the ANC.

Allegations are also being made that he used the state’s resources and finances for the campaign, and the Public Protector will now investigate the allegations.

He is also accused of abusing his power as chief officer by harming people who disagree with his views.

It is not known who filed the complaint with the Public Protector’s office on November 5, but the OB office apparently wrote a letter to obtain further information on the charges.

The complainant claims that Themba Matlou also approved that transport and hotel accommodation be paid for one of his “loved ones”.

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R84 million Free State Cuban Technical Advisers Program died a sudden death without solving the “water problem”

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The Secretary-General of the ANC, and former Prime Minister of the Free State, Ace Magashule’s plan to bring Cuban engineers to South Africa to solve the Free State’s “water problems”, then wasted millions of Rand.

The so-called Cuban engineers were welcomed with a huge ceremony when they came here from Cuba for four years.

Of the 37 Cubans, who spent them as engineers, only three remain in the Free State.

Mgasjule’s impressive “Free State Cuban Technical Advisers Program, which cost taxpayers more than R84 million, then died, like so many other projects, in sudden death without the” water problem “being solved.

The eminent engineers, whose qualifications are not recognized in South Africa, also had to see that service delivery in the Free State municipalities was increased, could not make do with the ANC workers, and no positive results were achieved.

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27 top black executives were asked to be Eskom CEO – They all said no

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While the government has been criticised for selecting a white executive as Eskom CEO, a new report from the Sunday Times states that 27 black executives were offered the position first.

They all declined.

The report stated that Eskom created a list of the executives it would like for the role of CEO and hired a recruitment agency to contact them.

“All of them said no. A lot of black executives don’t want anything to do with state-owned entities,” a government source told the newspaper.

This was due to the expected political interference and the fact that state-owned enterprises have “ruined a lot of careers and expectations”.

This list reportedly included Eskom board members Nelisiwe Magubane and Sifiso Dabengwa.
White CEO

Following the lack of interest from these executives, it was announced that Nampak CEO Andre de Ruyter would take the position at the head of Eskom.

The National Union of Mineworkers and the National Union of Metalwor
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Vandals tear R6.6m car wash apart, Tshwane spokesperson blames the weather

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A multimillion-rand car wash project owned by the city of Tshwane which was meant to create jobs for the youth of Mamelodi and invigorate the economy of the township, has descended into dilapidation.

SowetanLIVE reported that the Reitiretse integrated vehicle washing facility in Mamelodi west has been stripped by criminals, before it even opened its doors.

The R6.6m facility now looks a far cry from the day it was launched amid fanfare in November 2015.

When Sowetan visited the facility on Thursday, the structures had lost their roofs and door frames, while the toilet block has been stripped of the toilet seats and basins. The windows and other fittings had been vandalised.

Reitiretse was launched by former Tshwane mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa and Gauteng premier David Makhura. At the time, the car wash premises included a fully equipped laundromat and a fully equipped hair salon.

Located near Mamelodi’s major thoroughfare, Tsamaya Drive, the project was m
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Whites are only 7% of the world’s population, yet the darker races will always hate us and here is why:

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Terrible we know but nevertheless *True and Factual‼😳*

When they all get murdered or leave South Africa they will return to what they were before the whites arrived – poverty stricken, backward subsistence hunter/gatherers within 50 years.

• are the most industrious and innovative race the world has known.
• Whites have crossed seas,
• harnessed rivers,
• carved mountains,
• tamed deserts, and
• colonized the most barren icefields.

• Whites have formed nations,
• built civilizations, and administrated power.
• Whites created automation,
• discovered electricity,
• nuclear energy,
• X-rays and
• invented automobiles,
• airpolanes,
• jet engines,
• spacecraft,
• submarines,
• helicopters,
• radio,
• television,
• internet,
• computers,
• currency,
• telephones, and
• medicine.

Whites unlocked the secrets of
• DNA,
• relativity,
• launched communication satellites,
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Russian warship ‘Marshal Ustinov’ arrives in Cape Town for first-ever joint drill with Chinese, South African navies

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South African Navy is broke and obsolete apparently courtesy of ANC ruling government. They can not fix anything themselves, could well want help from somewhere else, as always, perhaps Russia or will it be China?

South Africa has much in way of extremely valuable mineral resources

America you’ve been sleeping and missed a vital opportunity again!

The Slava-class missile cruiser ‘Marshal Ustinov’ of the Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet has arrived at one of the world’s southernmost ports, South Africa’s Cape Town. It will take part in a joint exercise also involving China.
The cruiser and two support ships reached South Africa’s co-capital after an almost five-month, 25,500-nautical mile (47,200 km) voyage from its home base in Severomorsk. The flotilla made stops in Algeria, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Cape Verde and Equatorial Guinea, and took part in several sea exercises before reaching its South African destination on Sunday.

Local media s
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Expensive mistake due to incompetent officials – Municipality pays R18m in salaries twice – but workers refuse to give it back

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A cash-strapped Mpumalanga municipality may need pickaxes and shovels to recover about R18 million in salaries that were paid twice to its employees last month.

An error by officials in the Nkomazi Local Municipality’s finance department saw workers getting paid their salaries on the 15th instead of the 25th.

When the council decided not to pay the workers on the correct pay day, 10 days later, the workers shut down all water treatment plants and other municipal services.

The council bent over backwards and paid the bonanza to contain the service delivery chaos.

Now it wants to recover the money before the end of the 2019/20 financial year in June next year and has suggested deducting 20% from the employees’ salaries, but the workers are having none of it.

City Press understands that there might be another shutdown in municipal services if the deductions are implemented on Monday as workers are looking forward to a bountiful festive season from their
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Eskom to cut 60% of Soweto households’ power supply – Seems like #blackprivilege don’t apply in black residential areas at the expense of honest payers

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Eskom has awakened from its 25 years of corruption and has now suddenly decided to cut off Soweto’s illegal electricity consumers’ supply.

According to the latest report, Eskom has indicated that it will disconnect power from at least 60% of the 200,000 Soweto households with prepaid meters.

The reason is, according to Eskom, due to the fact that the majority of households have illegal connections, thereby stealing the power supply.

Experts say that’s one reason why regular payers have been so heavily burdened with unreasonably high rates for the past decade.

Eskom decided to take the action after the Supreme Court rejected Soweto residents’ request that Eskom be banned from cutting off power.

The media, and in particular Die Vryburger, have complained on behalf of thousands of power consumers over the past decade that Eskom allows black residential areas to steal power at the expense of honest payers.

Informed sources point out that the government ha
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Senior ANC official dissatisfied with his second-hand Mercedes Benz which costs taxpayers R103,776 monthly and seeks brand new one – No wonder SA is broke!

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Kwazi Mshengu was recently accused of using a car rental scheme to justify not having to use his predecessor’s official car.

Kwazi Mshengu is the newly appointed educator of the Executive Committee in Natal, but is now without a car after Mercedes-Benz canceled the guarantee, as well as the maintenance contract.

The manufacturer also recalled its courtesy vehicle, leaving the senior ANC worker without any vehicle he could use during his work.

The manufacturer, meanwhile, has appointed an independent investigator to determine the cause of the car damage.

Experts say the exceptional behavior of the automaker, Mercedes-Benz, to revoke a warranty, contract of service as well as a courtesy vehicle, is a clear sign that the vehicles were abused by its drivers.

The manufacturer’s actions follow after a fake letter was given to Kwazi Mshengu in which the manufacturer says the car used by its predecessor is unsafe and should not be used.

The one-year-old Merce
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