The new Expropriation Bill of 2015 was recently released by the minister of public works, Thulas Nxesi, and is due to be enacted into law this year. The 2015 Bill is just as unconstitutional as its predecessors of 2008 and 2013. It still gives the State the power to take ownership and possession of property
Ukrainian army leaves fracking equipment behind
On the outskirts of the village of Shishkovo under the snow and rain rusts the expensive equipment: four residential trailers for employees, diesel substation and equipment for conducting seismic surveys. Judging by the labels this equipment was certified in the U.S., and now it is in possession of the people of Donbass. Local residents recall
Bibi warns US Congress on Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the US Congress Tuesday that an international deal on Iran’s nuclear programme could threaten the survival of his country. Dozens of Democrats chose to boycott the speech after Speaker of the House John Boehner, the top Republican in the lower chamber, invited Netanyahu to speak without consulting the White
SA’s first coloniser was a coloured
If President Zuma wants to blame the first Dutch “settler” he must look at Simon van der Stel, says T Kleyn
If President Zuma wants to blame the first Dutch “settler” he must look at Simon van der Stel, says T Kleyn
The killing continues: White doctor murdered on game farm
The mutilated body of a retired doctor was found on his game farm in Limpopo on Monday, after he was presumably murdered on Saturday. Netwerk24’s Marietie Louw-Carstens reported on Tuesday that Louis-John Botha, 64, is the second farmer in the just the Waterberg district of Limpopo to be killed this year. Susan Kotze, 76, was
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Fires in Cape Town not yet contained
Firefighters are continuing to battle a fire on the mountains and hills above several residential areas in the South Peninsula in Cape Town. Cape Town Disaster Risk Management said on Tuesday that firefighters were battling three areas, on the Hout Bay side of Chapman’s Peak, Tokai Forest, and Noordhoek. The fire started on Sunday, was
Suspects named in Nemtsov murder
The Nemtsov murder investigation has focused on the theory that the crime was organized by a Chechen militant commander Adam Osmayev, of the Dzhokhar Dudayev battalion, who also was named in the case concerning the attempt to assassinate Vladimir Putin. Investigators are allowing for the possibility that the militants, who fought against DPR and LPR,
The mortal danger of being white in Africa
A lucrative black market exists for the body parts of albinos, who are believed by some to possess magical powers that can bring good luck. But as police in Tanzania crack down on the grisly trade, activists in neighbouring Malawi say attacks have spiked. Albinos are living in fear of being killed in Malawi, where
The most important tower in the world
The tower in question is the primary microwave relay into the ill-named “New York” Stock Exchange which actually is located just off MacArthur Boulevard and Route 17 in Mahwah, New Jersey, and is arguably the “most important tower” in the world, because without it, the financial industry, which these days means a few hundred thousands
The neoconservative threat to international relations
This week I was invited to address an important conference of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Scholars from Russia and from around the world, Russian government officials, and the Russian people seek an answer as to why Washington destroyed during the past year the friendly relations between America and Russia that President Reagan
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Oligarchs, seed companies benefit from land redistribution
The federal government has admitted that national and international companies in Ukraine benefit from EU subsidies and loans. Fertile lands in Ukraine are being transferred to Ukrainian oligarchs and international seed companies, and in return the Kiev government receives international loans. The inquiry of the parliamentary group of the Left Party, submitted on January 19,
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US threatened to shoot down Israeli war planes
The Bethlehem-based news agency Ma’an has cited a Kuwaiti newspaper report Saturday, that US President Barack Obama thwarted an Israeli military attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2014 by threatening to shoot down Israeli jets before they could reach their targets in Iran. Following Obama’s threat, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was reportedly forced to abort
Britain’s shameful part in Mugabe’s tyranny
I can’t imagine that anyone in his right mind would actually want to go to the 91st birthday party of Robert Gabriel Mugabe which takes place this Saturday. It promises to be an event of truly spectacular moral ugliness. While his people are starving, the ancient despot will convoke 20,000 cronies at a kind of
‘Secret Swedish Asylum group’ plans 400,000 new immigrants
The Swedish government has appointed a “secret asylum-group” planning for 400,000 new immigrants over the next five years – the equivalent of a large Swedish city, the newspaper Dagens Industri revealed yesterday. The Secret Asylum group is a group of unelected left wing bureaucrats working for the government, that currently outlines the future population of
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