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Rolling Blackouts on the cards as AMCU threaten secondary strike , AMCU represents about half of coal mine workers in SA

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The tussle between Sibanye-Stillwater and the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) has reached new heights.

The trade union, whose membership also includes coal mine workers, has teased a secondary strike and this could affect load shedding too.

Why is AMCU set to embark on a secondary strike?
AMCU president, Joseph Mathunjwa, made it abundantly clear that the upcoming strike has to be felt on a national scale. The plan is to render the entire country to a complete standstill.

This, according to Mathunjwa, is the only way to make the government — particularly the Minister of Mineral Resources, Gwede Mantashe — heed their calls for a moratorium at Sibanye-Stillwater.

Mantashe, on Thursday, revealed that his department would be engaging with the gold producer after it revealed its intentions to retrench more than 6 000 workers.

Mathunjwa expressed his disgust with this, criticising Mantashe of catering
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Economist says Zuma government cost taxpayers about R470bn – What a waste of good money!

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Nedbank chief economist Dennis Dykes says the Zuma regime has cost South Africa R470bn.

Dennis Dykes says they have done a thorough calculation that is South Africa’s loss due to corruption, maladministration and distorted policies in Jacob Zuma’s second term.

He says there was an estimated loss of R140bn due to taxes lost and now having an impact on the economy.

He also points out that government debt would also have been 49% less, amounting to R250 billion.

The amount lost in the latter half of Zuma’s regime is greater than Eskom’s total debt burden.

In response to the interview that appeared in Business Day, a businessman from Pretoria was merely saying, “Zuma, you bastard.”

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All five campuses of the Durban University of Technology’s academic programs have been “temporarily” suspended after ongoing student protests

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Lectures at all five campuses of the Durban University of Technology’s academic programs have been “temporarily” suspended due to ongoing student protests.

Opinion polls believe it is time for government to include higher education institutions that are unproductive and destructive.

Meanwhile, seven students have been arrested at the Mongosuthu University of Technology in Durban for damage to property.

The vandalism at Durban’s educational institutions has led to chaos over the past month, and many students have sustained injuries after they hit the police.

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Members of parliament accuse Eskom of holding SA hostage and trying to enforce money from taxpayers who are already suffering from the heavy debt of the ANC government

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Zukiswa Rantho, who led the parliamentary inquiry into Evkom’s problems, made up the former Eskom boss, Matshelo Koko, in parliament as a “servant” of the Gupta’s.

She pointed him out as a liar and a possible criminal.

Several speakers in parliament once again pointed out that Eskom is holding the country hostage and trying to enforce money from taxpayers who are already suffering from the heavy debt of the ANC government.

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ANC regime landgrab program is used in an attempt to recruit government votes for the upcoming election

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The Department of Public Works says a “rapid follow-up” process is planned to make land available quickly to give momentum to the landgrab program.

The state has a property portfolio of more than 93,000 buildings and more than 1.9 million hectares of land under the control of the Department.

The government’s land-grabbing program entails that land, as well as any other property, can be claimed by the rulers without compensation.

During a briefing in the parliamentary committee, Sasa Subban, the deputy director general of the department said a 100 properties were earmarked to be released by the end of 2019, and 100 properties in the following year financial year.

He says the North West has been identified as the province with the largest number of outstanding restitution claims, which apparently cover 93 properties.

Subban says the province had a total of 261 properties that were claiming a total of 142,000 hectare
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Still the Ramaphosa denies the surge of farm attack and murders in SA – Defenseless elderly couple held hostage by four terrorists during farm attack, Pretoria Gauteng

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ANOTHER elderly defenseless couple held hostage for over 3 hours, Haakdoornboom, Pretoria, Gauteng Province on 24 January 2019, between 22:00 and 01:30.

An elderly couple were attacked and held hostage by four black males from 22h00 tot 01h30. Hand firearms and hunting rifles as well as household items as well as their bakkie ( small truck, light weight ) was robbed.

Please be on the lookout for the vehicle: A white Isuzu bakkie KB 280, with Reg nr: DJ56LC GP. South Afrcian Police Service (SAPS) were on the scene and are investigating the matter. There is no other information available at this stage.

Elderly individuals should enhance their personal and family security immediately. Always BE prepared. Take NO chances at any time.

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‘You will regret it in 30 years time’: Tito Mboweni on scrapping Afrikaans at UP

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Finance minister Tito Mboweni ruffled feathers after tweeting that he disagrees with the removal of Afrikaans as a medium language of instruction at the University of Pretoria.

As of 2019, English is the medium language of teaching for all first-year classes at the university after AfriForum Youth and Solidarity lost a high court battle in 2016 to challenge the language policy.

Former University of the Witwatersrand vice-principal Tawana Kupe took up his position as the first black vice-chancellor at the University of Pretoria, placing racial transformation of academic staff at the centre of his agenda.

Mboweni’s tweet triggered much debate and responses, as the minister firmly stood by his opinion.

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Discrimination against whites continues – FeesMustFall activist’s public violence is left “unpunished” while Vicky Momberg, who used the “k-word”, is sentenced to two years in prison

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FeesMustFall’s, Bongisnkosi Lhanyile is found guilty of public violence complaints and sentenced to three years’ house arrest and a R5000 fine. It seems as if discrimination against whites continues, because Vicky Momberg, who used the so-called “k-word”, is sentenced to two years in prison.

Opinion polls say the left-wing FW de Klerk may be right if he says the legal system in SA is crooked.

Lhanyile is still allowed to attend classes at the University of Natal and has to do community service  for only eight hours a month.

Questions are asked about how it is possible to be under house arrest and then do community service.

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Left-wing media and its journalists were apparently bribed by Bosasa and form part of the corruption scandal

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Former Bosasa chief, Angelo Agrizzi, has been rattling the cages  of the so called left-wing media and journalists when he named the names of journalists who are part of the corruption scandal. This all happened during the court procedure where he was giving evidence on day seven.

According to Agrizze, as much as R30,000 a month was paid to journalists to write positive reports about Bosasa, but there are also journalists who refuse to admit they were bribed.

One company director asked for R71,000 to be paid, of which R30,000 has to be set aside for journalists, which, according to observers, is indicative of the extent of the Bosasa corruption network.

Photo – Angelo Agrizzi

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Trustworthiness of Ramaphosa under scrutiny – Not once, when he was part of the ANC-regime’s system in the Zuma-era did he ever said a word regarding the grand-scale corruption to the collapse of the economy to state capture

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For 4 years as second in command to Jacob Zuma as deputy-president he never saw any corruption, he never heard of any corruption, and he never spoke against corruption? Who is he trying to fool?

The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) on Monday published a scathing open letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa, criticising him for being “in the belly of the beast which was the [Jacob] Zuma administration”.

In a statement issued on the IFP’s official website, Mkhuleko Hlengwa, IFP national spokesperson, writes: “Utterances attributed to you that in Davos you spoke of ‘nine wasted years’ under Mr Zuma have taken me aback with a sense of shock as they are said with a very opportunistic view to distance yourself from the grave realities of those years, particularly for the poor majority as we saw everything from grand-scale corruption to the collapse of the economy to state capture.

Ramaphosa has, in several speeches, referred
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