Whereas President Cyril Ramaphosa already released 19 000 inmates out of a total prison population of 155 000 in May this year, prisoners in Gauteng province are rioting for another mass release. They claim that they are at risk of … Read the rest
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South African Medical Association objects to imported Cuban doctors
Pretoria – The South African Medical Association (Sama) has criticised the government for bringing in just over 200 Cuban medical experts to help South Africa’s fight against the coronavirus, arguing that the government should have exhausted local expertise first.
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Video: No ubuntu from South Africa’s black billionaires
From midnight on 26 March, South Africa will be in lockdown due to the coronavirus, with many small businesses suffering. Two white billionaires, Nicky Oppenheimer and Johann Rupert, have stepped up to the plate and donated R1 billion each to … Read the rest
Decision to continue with expropriation without compensation is short-sighted – TLU SA
The decision of the ANC government to go ahead with changes to Section 25 of the Constitution – which relates to expropriation without compensation – is short-sighted, according to South African farmers’ union, TLU SA.
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Ramaphosa calls for closer Asian ties
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa told delegates at the Asia-Africa Business Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia on Tuesday that Afro-Asian economic and cultural ties needed to be strengthened.
Ramaphosa said Asia and Africa could collaborate in a number of areas, such as … Read the rest
Pandor acting president
Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor will be acting president until Tuesday while Jacob Zuma is away on a working trip this week, the presidency said.
Zuma was travelling to Algeria to meet President Abdelaziz Bouteflika for a South Africa-Algeria … Read the rest
Farmers fear wineland inferno
Several wine farmers, including rugby star Schalk Burger’s family, were on high alert as a raging fire destroyed about 1700ha of bush in the Wellington area outside Cape Town.
Firefighters said the fire spread up Bain’s Kloof Pass and onto … Read the rest
‘Vote or the Boers will be back!’
ANC deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa has urged Limpopo residents to vote or else the “Boers” will come back to power, according to a report. Ramaphosa evidently believes the black fear of whites will persuade blacks to vote, even though whites … Read the rest
Beware the Stockholm syndrome
by TAU Bulletin
“Adjusting” to the ANC and the consequences thereof.
Stockholm Syndrome: This syndrome refers to a group of psychological symptoms that occur in some persons or groups in a captive or hostage situation. It is sometimes referred to … Read the rest
‘Racism’: South Africa’s biggest industry
by Manfred Delport
There is an email joke currently doing the rounds, which contains more than just a grain of truth. A black boy asks his mom: “Mommy, what is democracy?” His mother answers that democracy is something that allows
Miners shot in the back says lawyer
Fourteen of the 34 Lonmin platinum miners killed by the police in August were shot in the back, a judicial inquiry into the Marikana shooting heard on Monday.
“All fatal projectile wounds were sustained from the back,” advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza … Read the rest
Did South African police kill at Marikana to help black billionaire Ramaphosa’s finances?
Over the past few days PRAAG obtained new information about the Marikana massacre that is currently still making frontpage news in South Africa. It appears as if the miners of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) were deliberately
Return to work, or be fired! Lonmin tells striking mineworkers
Miners must return to work Monday or face being fired from the platinum mine where rivalry between unions exploded into violence that led to the deaths of 44 people in a week, Lonmin PLC said Sunday. Thirty-four were gunned down … Read the rest
Malema appeal postponed
The appeal hearing of three ANC Youth League leaders was postponed on Thursday, ANC national disciplinary committee of appeals (NDCA) chairman Cyril Ramaphosa said.
League president Julius Malema, spokesman Floyd Shivambu and secretary general Sindiso Magaqa were scheduled to submit … Read the rest