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Panyaza Lesufi could be replaced as Gauteng education MEC if AfriForum gets its way

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AfriForum’s campaign demanding the removal of Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi from office began on Wednesday with an online petition calling for his removal.

The minority-rights organisation said it would also hand over a memorandum to Gauteng premier David Makhura at his offices in the Johannesburg CBD on Thursday, in which it will ask that Lesufi be dismissed.

Before handing over the memorandum, AfriForum said it will start by laying criminal charges at the Johannesburg Central police station relating to the education department’s alleged misappropriation of more than R900m.

AfriForum announced on Tuesday that it would launch its campaign to remove Lesufi when it responded to a statement by the department that 14,000 grade 1 and grade 8 learners had not been placed in schools.

The department outlined measures it would take to ensure that the remaining 14,617 prospective grade 1 and grade 8 pupils were placed in schools by the end of the month. It
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Misappropriation of R5.8 bil, Afriforum to lay charges – NHI violates constitution

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During a media conference held on 18 November 2019, AfriForum launched a comprehensive report on why the implementation of National Health Insurance (NHI) in South Africa will be unconstitutional. The report further explains why the impact study on which the NHI is based, is totally inadequate which means that the Bill should be set aside.

“According to the report, Section 27 of the Constitution only provides for access to healthcare. Nowhere does it indicate that the state is obliged to provide healthcare to everyone. In fact, if the government’s intervention hinders this access, it is unconstitutional. When one considers the current state of affairs in the department of health, the state most definitely doesn’t have the capacity to provide healthcare services to the whole country. It will therefore be unconstitutional for the state to effectively take control of the private health sector,” says Natasha Venter, AfriForum’s spokesperson for NHI.

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Lesufi stirring havoc! Gauteng Department of Education might place Afrikaans learners in township schools

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The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) will now introduce English and Afrikaans as the language of teaching and learning in township schools, in an effort to accommodate displaced learners in this province.

This is a statement by the GDE on Tuesday. According to this, the department will help schools that received few enrollments for 2020 to appoint qualified teachers who can teach in English and Afrikaans. These schools are mostly located in townships and some have received only 16 applications for gr. 1- or gr. 8 learners to attend school here next year.

The civil rights organization AfriForum will now demand in a letter written to the Gauteng Prime Minister and ask that the Education MEC in Gauteng, Panyaza Lesufi, resign. “We will also file criminal charges for corruption and malpractice within the GDE under the leadership of Lesufi,” said Carien Bloem, AfriForum’s education coordinator. In addition, several parents and schools threaten legal action becaus
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Standerton water crisis – poor management and incompetency of municipality costing millions

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South Africa’s largest poultry farm, Astral Foods, which is seeing its profits wane, is powerless due to water shortages in Standerton.

Due to the severe water crisis, the poultry farm became obliged to exploit its own water source by sinking boreholes in order to survive.

The poor management of the municipality to fail to supply water has driven the company out of millions of Rand.

The costs incurred, amid a poor economic situation in the country, as well as the ever-rising cost of fodder to be purchased, have left the company behind.

Economists point out that the water crisis not only causes great economic consequences in Standerton, but also in the Vaal Dam and other larger water storage ponds are serious problems, and the hope is that the Katsedam in Lesotho is in a position to water to provide when the tunnel maintenance is completed by the end of November.

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New white CEO of Eskom not welcomed with open arms – Numsa: ‘De Ruyter’s appointment as Eskom CEO an insult to Africans’

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The recent appointment of Andre de Ruyter to the position of Eskom CEO has been met with mixed emotions, particularly by trade unions and fervent supporters of the Radical Economic Transformation (RET) agenda.

Although the African National Congress (ANC) has welcomed the appointment of de Ruyter, at a time when Eskom is teetering on the brink of both operational and financial collapse, union allies have been less hospitable.

Andre de Ruyter tasked with turning Eskom around

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), which currently has its hands full with a particularly nasty South African Airways (SAA) strike, condemned the appointment of de Ruyter. The union’s general secretary, Irvin Jim, who has vehemently opposed Eskom’s unbundling strategy, alleging that government is in the process of privatising the power utility, said of de Ruyter’s appointment:

“This constitutes a setback when it comes to the transformation agenda in the co
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Only 11 shortlisted candidates applied for Transnet CEO post

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Only 11 candidates have submitted applications that qualify to be shortlisted for the post of major boss for Transnet, three of whom are CEOs of the rail service.

The state-controlled entity, whose finances are also not too rosy, apparently has 11 candidates from which a new CEO will be appointed.

The appointment comes after the previous chief, Siyabonga Gama, was fired, and is only expected to be finalized in a week or more.

In addition to Transnet’s board of directors, an outside agency’s expertise was apparently used to interview and make a final decision.

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Farm owner behind bars after killing intruder in car – How corrupt is the SA legal system!

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A man caught in a car on a farm has been shot dead, but now the farm owner is in jail. The incident occurred on the farm Eensome near Roossenekal.

Mr. Willem Daniel Ackermann apparently saw a light inside his Honda CRV vehicle, which was parked on his premises.
He approached and saw an unknown man inside the car.

According to Mr. Markus Basson, who chaired the Roossenekal Farm Safety Forum for five years, said Ackermann asked the man who he was and what he was looking for.

According to police, the suspect got out of the vehicle and went to Mr. Moving to Ackermann.
Police say five shots were fired in total and the suspect was fatally wounded.

According to Mr. Basson was also given a knife at the scene.

The ambulance services declared the suspect dead at the scene.

Mr. Ackermann was arrested on the charge of murder and has already appeared in Groblersdal’s Magistrate’s Court.

The case has been postponed until a later date.

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What a load of bull! – According to Stats SA, whites earn three times more than black people! – What do our readers say about this?

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Times Live recently published an article that about Stats SA’s latest report saying that the country is still one of the most unequal in the world. Inequality Trends in South Africa, released on November 14, showed that white people earned three times more than black people on average, two decades after apartheid. The report also..
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BEE now a must for real estate – No BEE certificate no fidelity fund certificate!

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In terms of the Real Estate Practice Act, Black economic empowerment (BEE) participation will soon be an obligation in the real estate industry.

Piet Le Roux, CEO of the business organization Sakeliga, is not in favor of the new legislation. He explains that those who previously met the necessary requirements could act as real estate professionals but with the new developments they will now have to have a BEE certificate as a prerequisite.

Le Roux believes that disguising participation in BEE processes as a professional requirement is blatantly harmful, unconstitutional and unfair. He points out that this is unacceptable political interference with the freedom of the industry and the prosperity of the industry for clients as well as the economy.

The new legislation provides that the Real Estate Practices Regulatory Authority may not issue a Fidelity Fund Certificate to any person who does not have a valid BEE certificate. No person may, therefore, act as a rea
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Another waste of taxpayer’s money! – Millions down the drain as Tshwane houses will have to be demolished and rebuilt

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Greater Pretoria’s municipality is in trouble but denies that many homes will have to be demolished and rebuilt.

An abandoned multimillion-rand housing project in Ga-Rankuwa Unit 10 in the City of Tshwane will be demolished and rebuilt at an extra cost after contractual disputes with the contractor who abandoned the project in June this year.

However, according to informed sources, the multi-million Rand housing project in Ga-Rankuwa area is already being demolished to be rebuilt.

According to Gauteng Human Settlements MEC Lebogang Maile, who was responding to written questions tabled in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature, an amount of R34,170,591.36 has been spent so far in building these houses. which will go down as waste.

“This is a waste of taxpayers’ money and we can no longer tolerate such abuse,” said Kate Lorimer, the Democratic Alliance (DA) Gauteng shadow MEC for human settlements and COGTA.

She said the housing project was initiated in
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