The SA Chamber of Mines (CoM) has called on the government as a shareholder to take responsibility for Eskom’s recapitalisation and to provide the electricity utility with R7bn/year in order to avoid the 35% electricity tariff increase. “The South African economy cannot absorb the 35% tariff increase requested by Eskom,” said the CoM’s Dick Kruger. […]
POLICE PRAISED FOR USE OF DEADLY FORCE
National Police Commissioner Bheki Cele on Friday praised the work of KwaZulu-Natal police for shooting dead three armed robbers. “The fatal shooting of the men is a vivid signal that the days of criminals carrying out their evil deeds with impunity are over,” said Cele. Early on Friday the police received information that four men […]
FREE DE KOCK, SAY WIDOWS
Prime Evil’ edges ever closer to release. The widows of two of the murdered Motherwell Four policemen have written to President Jacob Zuma, urging him to pardon Eugene de Kock. De Kock, who, theoretically, is due to spend the next 200 years behind bars for the mass murders he committed during the apartheid era, was […]
DE KOCK MUST STAY IN JAIL – DA
Apartheid assassin Eugene de Kock must stay behind bars, the DA said on Friday said after Afrikaans-language newspapers reported his release was imminent. “De Kock most certainly should not take his place in society. He has not served his sentence, he has apparently not shown remorse, and he is a danger to society,” DA spokesman […]
ANC WANTS DRASTIC CHANGES IN CANDIDATES SELECTION
The ANC wants ordinary South Africans to help select ruling-party candidates for national, provincial and municipal legislatures, and says its own MPs must ask their cabinet colleagues tough questions. These drastic proposals were contained in a paper presented by ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe at the ANC national executive committee lekgotla – an expanded meeting – […]
MALEMA, TRIPARTITE ALLIANCE SMOKE PEACE PIPE
ANC Youth League President Julius Malema says he has made peace with tripartite alliance members following his heckling by SACP officials in Polokwane last December. Malema was addressing students at the Free State University. Malema says differences in opinion do not mean there is a crisis in the alliance. He says there should be robust […]
JULIUS MALEMA PULLS OUT RACE CARD AGAIN
Do not be afraid to confront issues of race, ANC Youth League president Julius Malema told Free State students on Friday. “It is a most sensitive issue; while you speak against it you are declared a racist. If you are not strong, you will retreat,” he said in Bloemfontein. Mr Malema was speaking at the […]
CHARGED FOR INSULTING MUGABE
The joint head of the body meant to draft a new democratic constitution for Zimbabwe has been charged with insulting President Mugabe by calling him a goblin, lawyers confirmed on Friday. Douglas Mwonzora, a parliamentarian for Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and co-chairperson of the key parliamentary constitutional commission, allegedly told […]
Rosarno: No 'ndrangheta march
On 23 January 2010, the students of Rosarno marched through the streets of the city where Africans migrants have been expelled after being attacked by local residents armed with guns and sticks on 8 January 2010 and on the following days. Nowadays just very few Africans still lives in Rosarno, southern Italy.
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