South Africans are accustomed to government mismanagement and corruption. They’ve suffered for years from periodic blackouts at state-owned power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., seen…
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The public enterprises minister is looking to save the 16,000 jobs dependent on the power utility. Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan has given a…
Dutch foreign affairs minister Stef Blok has called on the SA government to give clarity on the contentious issues of land reform and property rights,…
Durban – The Pietermaritzburg High Court issued an arrest warrant for former president Jacob Zuma on Tuesday, after he skipped court on grounds of needing medical…
South African-born YouTuber Josh Pieters attracted more than 1 million views in a single day for his latest upload, a video wherein he pranks controversial…
Durban – Students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Westville campus, armed with petrol bombs, stones and other weapons torched a building on Tuesday night as a…
“Whoever you are, (or) how important you are, is not important if you don’t respect the resolutions of the ANC conferences,” ANC secretary general Ace…
I spotted a one-paragraph announcement in Britain’s Spectator magazine recently, saying Britain’s unemployment rate had dropped to 3.8% for the past quarter of 2019. I…
Despite Finance Minister Tito Mboweni describing “many fruitful conversations” at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week, CNN business editor Richard Quest had…
Tweets by BrendiWells “We wouldn’t be where we are in #SouthAfrica if we did not discard our own white people” “They warned us but…
It was my first full day back at the office after the Christmas holidays. I left the office, had dinner with a colleague from National…
With more load shedding this week, Eskom continues to struggle to supply power to South Africa. But 13 years ago, Medupi was hailed as a…
The Department of Basic Education urged the public to be wary of what it deems “fake news” suggesting it reduced the pass mark for Mathematics…
On Thursday, December 15, Schalk Lourens and his wife were returning to their Rhenosterfontein smallholding situated in the Bojanala District, Rustenburg Municipality. As the couple…
President Cyril Ramaphosa is in a race against time to send back the contentious Copyright Amendment Bill back to parliament as the US reviews SA’s…
Large amounts of plastic waste appeared in waves along the Durban beach coastline in South Africa as plastic bottles and other litter was seen being…
The bill for the expropriation of land has been published in the National Gazette for comment. Interestingly, it was done with no announcement, in the…
The ANC’s obsession with disproved socialist/communist practices is at the root of the problems. All the plans devised to reignite the economy of the country…