Johannesburg – The ANC’s second transition is necessary to overcome the compromises it made in the fight for democracy, President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday. “One of the causes of the slow pace to economic freedom is that ahead of [the first democratic election in] 1994… we went through a negotiations process,” Zuma said in
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The school book scandal in Limpopo province has now implicated the… national minister of education. Her company makes money out of school books that do not get delivered, it seems. At the centre of the textbook crisis in Limpopo is a politically connected company called EduSolutions. Minister Angie Motshekga has been working with this company
Read more: Minister’s company implicated in school book scandal
JOHANNESBURG, June 25 2012 — A water crisis is looming in South Africa, communities are at risk of losing access to water, and coal is right in the middle of it, according to a report released by Greenpeace today. This latest briefing is a stark reminder to the SA government to start pushing Eskom to
Read more: Eskom, ANC government causing water crisis, says Greenpeace
The Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor, today challenged some 200 graduating engineers from Wits University to forget about their “boarding passes and visas until every village in South Africa have a bridge, everyone walks on tar roads and all cities are greened”. Opening the University’s June-July Graduation Cluster, Pandor told some 200 graduates
Read more: Minister urges engineers not to leave South Africa
From: Dan Roodt <dan@praag.org> Date: 2012/6/22 Subject: Urgent: Human rights violations in South Africa To: secretary-general@commonwealth.int His Excellency Mr. Kamalesh Sharma Secretary-General Commonwealth of Nations Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5HX, UK Dear Sir, I wish to bring to your urgent attention the systemic violations of human rights taking place in South Africa, a
Read more: Letter to Commonwealth on anti-Afrikaner human rights violations
Local celebrities and members of the public marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Tuesday to protest against violent crime. The march which was organised by Afrikaans singers Bobby and Karlien van Jaarsveld and Steve Hofmeyr as well as other celebrities was aimed at calling on government to take action against violent crime in
Read more: Afrikaner singer Steve Hofmeyr marches against violent crime
by Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, MP and President of the Inkatha Freedom Party, February 14, 2012 “Twenty years ago there were many people in this country who felt that we black people are not capable enough to rule a country and administer a democratic government. That was one of the major fears during the negotiation process.
The controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma in the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg has been defaced, gallery staff confirmed on Tuesday. A man is being held by the gallery security team. “The work has been painted over with black and red paint,” a spokesman said. Police are on their way to the scene. On Twitter,
by Dan Roodt Last week ANC leaders had another braai or luncheon with representatives of Afrikaans organisations. A few vacuous statements were made afterwards but as usual nothing really happened. Why on earth does the ANC still talk to Afrikaners and Afrikaans organisations when they have absolutely zero political influence? one wonders. King Mswati III
Read more: Beaten Afrikaners becoming an international symbol
By Ilana Mercer “Unseemliness” is how Charles Murray might call the May 21 Time magazine cover, genuflecting to modern motherhood in America. In “Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010,” the libertarian political scientist mentions the “collapse of a sturdy code” [of conduct] in American society, rendering the nouveau riche upper class indistinguishable in
Human Rights Commissioner Judge Jody Kollapen yesterday handed down judgment in the application launched by the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at Wits University, acting on behalf of SECTION27, Hanyani Thomo Secondary School and Tondani Lydia Masiphephethu, for the delivery of textbooks to schools in Limpopo and the implementation of a catch-up plan for Grade
Read more: Education department ordered to supply textbooks by 15 June
The ANC vowed on Thursday to go to court to get a painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals hanging out removed from a Johannesburg gallery. “The African National Congress is extremely disturbed and outraged by the distasteful and indecent manner in which Brett Murray and the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg is displaying the
By Mike Smith Let me introduce you to the ANCYL’s latest village idiot, the new Malema. His name is Ronald Lamola …and he is on the warpath. Last night at the ANCYL meeting at the University of Cape Town, he said that the ANC should unapologetically pursue the changing of the constitution so that mines
Read more: ANC Youth League acting president: ‘Share your wealth or we will take it by force’
Model Jessica Leandra Dos Santos has said it was not in her nature to use racist language after she caused a row on social networking site Twitter. “Over the past 24 hours I have had time to reflect on my actions and I don’t have the words to express my sincere remorse following my unkindly
Read more: South African model apologises for using ‘kaffir’ in a tweet
