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Implementering van NGV gaan rampspoedige gevolge inhou vir SA ekonomie en selfs oorsaak wees vir gradering tot rommelstatus

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AfriForum het vandag in ’n brief aan president Cyril Ramaphosa, minister van finansies Tito Mboweni en minister van gesondheid Zweli Mkhize gestuur waarin die burgerregteorganisasie waarsku dat die inwerkingstelling van nasionale gesondheidsversekering (NGV) uiteindelik tot die afgradering van die land se kredietgradering tot rommelstatus kan lei.

Dít volg nadat die kredietgraderingsagentskap Moody’s Suid-Afrika se kredietgradering onlangs van ’n stabiele na ’n negatiewe vooruitsig afgegradeer het. Die rede vir dié afgradering is volgens Moody’s somber groeivooruitsigte en groeiende openbare skuld. In sy brief voer AfriForum aan dat onbekostigbare, ideologiese beleide soos die NGV daartoe gaan lei dat Suid-Afrika na rommelstatus afgegradeer sal word, aangesien die land dit eenvoudig nie kan befonds nie.

“Om met die inwerkingstelling van die NGV voort te stu, sal nie net rampspoedig vir die Suid-Afrikaanse ekonomie wees nie; dit sal ook staatskuld opblaa
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Elderly couple violently brutalized by 7 armed barbarics during farm attack

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A violent farm attack took place on 11 November 2019, at 09:30, in Welbekend, Bronkhorstspruit, Gauteng province. A couple, Ben (73) and Ansie Dreyer (70) were attacked by seven armed attackers pretending to be clients wanting to buy milk. Ben along with a worker was forced into the home and into the bedroom where his hands and feet were tied and he forced to lay on the floor. The attackers who wanted firearms and money then forced Ansie to open the safe.

Ansie then pushed the panic alarm and was struck in the head by one of the attackers with his firearm. She collapsed on the bed pretending to be unconscious.

As a result of the alarm being activated, people started phoning the farm, this caused the attackers to flee. The neighbors and emergency services reacted and treated the elderly couple who were severely traumatized. The attackers robbed two firearms, jewelry and cash.

There is no other information available at this stage.

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Limpopo school that failed to reach a 50% matric pass rate has allegedly fabricated marks even though the pupils have not written for exams

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Whistle-blower says school fabricated the English examination marks of grades 8, 9 and 11. He says pupils did not even sit for the exams

A Limpopo school that has failed to reach a 50% matric pass for the past three years allegedly fabricated English marks for grades 8, 9 and 11 in March.

The allegation about the fabricated marks was made by Michael Mosomane to the Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) as part of his submission, which City Press has seen, challenging the termination of his contract by the education department in May.

Mosomane was employed in January as a temporary accounting teacher at Nakedi Secondary in De Vrede village about 130km outside of Polokwane.

He told City Press that he had initially reported the matter to the education department’s offices in Polokwane on May 6 to raise the alarm, but he received no feedback.

Instead, his contract was terminated by the department on May 27, despite it being scheduled to end in December
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Tornado ripped through areas of New Hanover, Pietermaritzburg, causing major destruction, fears of possibility of missing, dead people

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The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs in KwaZulu-Natal has activated councillors and volunteers to assist affected communities after a tornado hit New Hanover, Pietermaritzburg, on Tuesday afternoon.

The tornado, according to the department, “ripped through the area, injuring scores of people and damaging homes and public infrastructure”.

Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC Sipho Hlomuka said preliminary reports received by the department indicated a number of people, who had sustained injuries, were currently receiving medical treatment at surrounding hospitals.

“A number of homes have collapsed, countless trees have been uprooted and the electricity supply in the area has been interrupted. Our teams are working hard to provide support to the affected communities.”There are fears of possible missing people and deaths.

Earlier, News24 reported the South African Weather Service was hesitant to confirm it was a tornado, as vi
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Is ‘snoobab’ the new k-word?

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The word spells baboons backwards and existed before it was allegedly used to refer to black pupils at Kingswood College.

A social media post shared by pupils of Kingswood College in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown) has highlighted racial tensions at the exclusive private school, as well as introduced South Africans to a new racial slur.

“Snoobab”, which spells baboons backwards, was a term reportedly used by white pupils to refer to their black counterparts at the school, according to City Press.

An outcry on social media erupted after the two white girls at the school who accused each other of racism and xenophobia were found not guilty following a disciplinary process.

The process was conducted by a “highly qualified black woman”, who found that there “mutually destructive versions” of what happened “by both sides”, college head Colleen Vassiliou told City Press.

“This verdict, by someone of her expertise, cannot be ignored or overtur
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‘Mother of all strikes’ ready to paralyze SAA as union hints at ‘total shutdown’ if national carrier cuts a fifth of staff

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Numsa and Sacca already have a strike certificate as they accuse management of threatening them with retrenchments and call for the SAA board to be scrapped. As if their financial dire straits and the plan that they would have to retrench about 900 people were not enough, the national carrier South African Airways (SAA) is..
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EFF says that Springbok rugby is a symbol of white supremacy against change

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Economic Freedom Fighters member of Parliament (MP) Mbuyiseni Ndlozi on Tuesday reiterated his scorn of the Springbok rugby team and said there would be no racial unity in South Africa until wealth was shared equally and land returned to those from whom it was taken.

Ndlozi, in a debate on a motion to congratulate the Springboks for winning the Rugby World Cup, said calls to rally behind the team was a form of collective abuse of black people, who were being asked to sanctify a sport and a symbol that remained redolent of white supremacy.

“Because the Springbok is a sign that cannot be whitewashed, it stands in parallel continuity with Die Stem entrenching white supremacy in our society. That is why the rugby team in question is white-dominated. It is a perfect reflection that white people have successfully resisted change in our society for 25 years,” he said.

He said the mass street celebrations that have met the returning rugby champions were “fake” because
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Power grid remains under pressure, possibility of load shedding not eliminated

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The electricity network remains under pressure and, according to Eskom, there is still the possibility of load shedding for today and the rest of the week, but will only be applied if absolutely necessary.

According to Eskom, unplanned interruptions at 22:00 on Sunday were slightly less than 10,000 MW and good progress was made over the weekend to supplement diesel reserves for the open-cycle gas turbines and water levels with the pump storage schemes.

The power provider said the power grid is still being monitored hourly at its emergency response control center and that the situation at its generation plants is unpredictable.

“Eskom wants to remind its customers that any unexpected changes such as additional interruptions or the unavailability of diesel for the gas turbines or declining water levels at the pump storage schemes could lead to short-term power short notice.”

Meanwhile, another generation unit at the Kusile power station was synchronized for t
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New Speed limits to be introduced to SA drivers – limit on highways will drop to 100km

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The Department of Transport and the Road Traffic Management Corporation are reviewing South Africa’s current speed limits. The proposed review of speed limits comes after President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Act into law in August 2019 – introducing a new demerit system for South African drivers.

Speaking to the Weekend Argus, Department of Transport spokesperson Ayanda Allie-Paine said the proposal could see the baseline top speeds across the country’s roads reduced by 20km/h.

This would effectively drop the speed limit on the country’s highways from 120km/h to 100km/h, while the top speeds on main roads would drop from 100km/h to 80km/h.

Speeds in residential areas would decrease from 60km/h to 40km/h.

“Our road safety strategy has considered all these factors. Legislation is being reviewed to address and bring in place an edifice of various interventions to respond adequately to the c
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Meeting held in Kimberley end in chaos after diamond diggers and zama-zama gold miners arrive with weapons

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Apparently, the world-renowned diamond city Kimberley’s project to tie the so-called zama-zama gold miners and diamond miners together into a legal structure did not produce good results.

The meeting held in Kimberley became riotous after diggers with arms arrived at the meeting.

The actions of dozens of diamond miners, who illegally exploited the diamond fields without permits, soon struck the national effort to create law and order.

Some of the illegal diggers say they claim their area that has been deprived of them since the 19th century, and the more than 800 diggers who are unlicensed diggers have completely disrupted the meeting.

They work in an area of about 1,500 acres rich diamond field and refuse to give a thumbs up for their “rights”.

A new licensed cooperative structure has been created, but the majority of diggers refuse to join it, while others have apparently been denied shareholders.

The illegal mines and quarries operated by nearly 10
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