With 480 skilled and experienced South African professionals who are keen and ready to help Eskom out of the shit, president Cyril Ramaphosa opted to appoint Italian engineers to try and get to grips with the state-owned electricity supplier’s problems.
It’s not load shedding that will see large parts of South Africa go dark. Now it’s violence and infrastructure as Eskom decides to stop putting in an effort in areas where people don’t pay.
Day zero is growing closer for the South African Broadcorping Castration (SABC) - the day when your TV screens will go blank.
On 12 July we will know the fate of Jacob Zuma’s son.
Get rid of South Africa’s ambassador to Denmark. Her tweets are racist and divisive!
Thank goodness we are rid of this piece of “insert any abusive word of choice here”. That’s basically what the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) is saying about the resignation of Bathabile Dlamini as a member of Parliament.
If it is up to the South African Minister of Basic Education, it will soon be impossible to fail a year in school if you are between 6 and 10 years old.
If the South African government intends to seize private pension funds to plug the gaps in government spending, it will be nothing less than an ‘act of plunder’.
The real state of race relations in South Africa reflects the fact that the country is not on the brink of a race war.
It might be really stupid to buy a ticket for a flight on South African Airways (SAA) in the near future as it is becoming clear the writing is on the wall for South Africa’s ailing national carrier.
Slowly but surely minority rights movement AfriForum is staring to milk Julius Malema and the EFF dry. That is of course if they can take money from the EFF faster than they can loot it from others.
Cyril Ramaphosa’s new health minister seems to be hell bent on getting the “communist” National Health Insurance (NHI) plan going immediately. In doing so she is going to deprive everyone their right to decide which kind of health service they want to use.
Farm attack and farm murder data indicates that the farm attacks happen not only to loot money or goods but to inflict hatred and pain on farmers and their family.
Zero percent! That’s what South Africans economy grew in the last year and it’s getting even worse.
The mission, led by Ana Lucía Coronel, who visited South Africa from 27 May to 3 June to discuss recent economic developments and outlook in the context of its regular surveillance activities, also said robust actions are needed to reduce the fiscal deficit and reverse the increase in public debt. ...
It’s a matter of ‘kak en betaal’ for the political party EFF and its leader Julius Malema. If they don’t pay civil rights union AfriForum R100,000 their assets will be seized.
While the legal status of the 2018 mining charter is being resolved before the courts - a process likely to take some time - the mining industry could take the bull by the horns and embark on a pilot study to explore what the benefits of shifting from BEE to...
Poor old DSTV. First Netflix arrives in SA to wee on their parade and now ICASA wants to take away some of their exclusive sports coverage. No wonder the BoereMafia who owns the pathetic outfit are calling for government to help save their riches and going to court to save...
If the government can’t - or won’t - do it, somebody needs to step up to the task to support the victims of farm attacks in South Africa.
It seems a judge may have made a mistake that could send two men to prison for life. But AfriForum will have none of this.
Few South Africans know about the ANC’s visit to communist Vietnam in 1978 to learn the formula for a people’s war, or how that formula was applied to destroy the ANC’s black rivals in the Black Consciousness movement and the IFP. Few know that the tripling of the ‘kill’ rate...
More people (of all races) are leaving SA - and they ain’t coming back.
The South African Government is failing to provide an environment where the nursing profession can grow and prosper. Millions more will suffer.
This is good news if the SAPS can actually pull this one off. They plan to utilise reservists to combat crime in rural and remote areas. The news comes days after yet another farm murder, this time in the beautiful hamlet of Bonnievale in the Western Cape - the second...
The public can have their say on the draft Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Chartered Accountancy Sector Code (read ‘affirmative action’).
Eskom paid 48 suppliers R47,4 billion for diesel to burnt just to avoid more load shedding.
The Steyn statue on a Bloemfontein campus will not be removed without a fight, various organisations have vowed.
The writing is on the wall. Die ANC gaan kak in Gauteng.
As allegations swirl regarding two potential instances of double voting, the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has assured voters of the overall integrity of the electoral process.
The proposed amendments to the Children’s Act to do away with fees for adoptive services would not improve the current child protection crisis in South Africa. If anything, it will aggravate the situation.
The ANC could get less than 55% of the vote in tomorrow’s general South African election, says the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) after its latest election poll conducted on 4 May.
