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The days of slapping your naughty child on the backside will soon be officially over.

That slutty little sister of South Africa Aircraze (SAA), the South African Express, is blowing R1 million a week on planes that cannot fly.

At last government has taken a stance agains the destruction of transport infrastructure in the country.

Any reference to the ongoing land expropriation debate was conspicuously absent from South Africa’s new finance minister Tito Mboweni’s mid-term budget speech.

South Africa’s agricultural sector continues to be threatened by a volatile security situation, and it is imperative that the government takes this seriously and acts appropriately.

Chopping and changing people in leadership positions has cost South Africa dearly. In fact, there has been 164 changes to the national executive since 2009 and there is proof that this contributed to government’s failure to deliver.

Trade union Solidarity is bringing Sasol to its knees but the petrochemical giant does not have the balls to admit it. In stead it is blaming massive shortages in production on maintenance.

You will have to hand in your gun for destruction soon. Self-defence, the protection of another person or the protection of your property will no longer be valid reasons to own a firearm.

A public march against racial exclusion at Sasol aims to bring Sandton to a standstill next week.

A draft plan to secure South Africa’s borders, supported by a proper immigration plan for the country has been revealed by the official opposition, the Democratic Alliance (DA).

The National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) has applied for an urgent interdict in an attempt to stop the South African government from facilitating the selling of lion bones used in fake tiger bone wine and other questionable purposes worldwide.

South Africa’s official opposition, the DA, has laid criminal charges against the 50 people who allegedly siphoned billions from VBS Mutual Bank.

Prominent businessman Patrice Motsepe’s comments at AgriSA’s annual congress are to be welcomed for demonstrating an understanding of the key issues relating to land and agriculture, and for providing a worthy vision for addressing them.

The historical mismanagement of SA’s once mighty state-owned aerospace and military technology conglomerate, Denel, has now finally caught up with them to the point that it is battling to pay salaries.

As the value of the rand started tanking again, this time because Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene admitted to be flirting with former president Jacob Zuma’s shadowy buddies, the Guptas, the opposition said its time for Nene to pack his backs and go.

The very important jobs summit starting today (4 October) should urgently address the ‘job-destroying’ effects of the governments proposed expropriation without compensation (EWC) policy and further seek to introduce labour reforms that will price poor people into work.

Lazy? Wasting money by making bad decisions? Plain useless but still have a nice job and paid for by die State? If that’s you, you might end up with your ass in a State prison.

So you think the petrol price hike is huge? That’s nothing, says the experts. You should see what’s going to happen the rest of this year and next year!

South Africa is down sh*t creek without a paddle - and all the country know for sure is that’s it going to get much worse.

Pressing ahead with National Health Insurance (NHI) will steadily undermine South Africa’s excellent private healthcare system, and overburden the country’s already gravely deficient public health system, at vast cost to taxpayers.

South Africa and its tourism industry faces an embarrassment of spectacular proportions as publicity about its new birth certificate regime gives the impression that immigration officials are relaxing the requirements set in motion by the government in 2014.

More than two thirds of South Africans believe individuals should have the right to own property, and 90% are opposed to the government being able to take away land they own themselves. Just over half believe South Africa should pursue an alternative to expropriation without compensation.

South Africa’s geology is the bedrock of enormous potential.

It seems President Cyril Ramaphosa is concerned about the tourism industry in South Africa and has taken a personal interest in rectifying mistakes of the past.

South Africa’s reputation as one of the most violent and dangerous places on earth is getting worse.

The stimulus package announced by the government today does not address the deeper reasons for South Africa’s economic malaise and will fail in positioning the country as a competitive emerging market.

With Rassie Erasmus in charge and Tendai Mtawarira, Eben Etzebeth and Handre Pollard picked, the Barbarian squad to face Argentina in the Killik Cup at Twickenham on 1 December has a distinctly South African feel. Australia’s Will Genia has been selected, too, which will make for a bit of friendly...

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet are planning to introduce some major changes to visa regulations, black economic empowerment and economic reform.

The decision by the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) to allow the possession or smoking of cannabis in private has been welcomed by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR). 

‘South Africa’s National “Death” Insurance Scheme’, the latest report from the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), lays bare the appalling scale of deficiency, mismanagement, negligence and corruption in the public health sector which the government intends to be the core of its proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) system.

It seems former president Jacob Zuma's cronies - the Guptas - can be behind the latest power crisis in SA with Eksdom (or is it spelled Eskom? - Ed.), the country's power "utility", saying it is fast running out of coals.