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ANC Youth League management dissolved and now replaced with task team – Today’s youth no longer tomorrow’s future?

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The ANC Youth League’s management is apparently being replaced by a task team that includes Malusi Gigaba, Faith Muthambi, and Nomvula Mokonyane.

During a media briefing to explain the decisions of the ANC’s Executive Council meeting in Pretoria, ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule said the decision was made to dissolve the Youth League’s management and replace it with a task team.

The task team’s mission is to arrange and hold a congress no later than February next year.

Concerns are rumored that ANC Youth League members are now on a “course” to learn to swim and shoot, which raises the question for many what the purpose of the “training” will be.

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Public Protector received money from Guptas, but denied that she was corrupt

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The Public Protector has denied allegations that she is corrupt and has received money from the Guptas in the past.

Busisiwe Mkhwebane is accused of receiving about R5,000 from the Guptas two years before her appointment as OB.

It is not mentioned whether she received the amount monthly, but it is suspected that she may have received it more than once.

However, she said they should take all her bank statements from the FNB and prove that she got money from the Guptas.

A non-profit foreign organization made the allegations, but besides it further adversely affects her chances of being in the post, it has international consequences for South Africa.

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#Blackprivilege: Soweto residents want to pay a flat rate of R100 per month for unlimited electricity – We all do!!

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While Eskom is drowning in debt and struggling to make ends meet, Soweto residents say they want their debt written off and to only pay R100 per month for unlimited electricity.

Eskom currently supplies 135,000 Soweto residents with power, but only 12% of these customers pay for electricity.

This non-payment has seen Soweto’s debt to Eskom increase from R3.6 billion in 2014 to its current level of R18 billion.

To alleviate this debt burden, Eskom is threatening to disconnect non-paying customers, remove illegal connections, and move more houses to prepaid electricity.

Soweto residents fighting back
Soweto residents, however, are having none of Eskom’s debt-collection and disconnection plans and are demanding that the power utility writes off their debt.

These residents argue that they cannot afford to pay for electricity, let alone pay off the money they owe to Eskom.

Instead, the residents proposed that they be ch
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SACP / ANC wants to establish totalitarian communist state in SA

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As the reality of communism gets closer to our pockets and our physical world, the greater reality becomes the total onslaught made as a scare story by leftish and liberals.

Regarding the current land grab plans, I think readers and journalists should now begin to realize that the SACP / ANC struggle was never really about liberation, but about the gradual phasing in and establishment of a totalitarian communist state. It was not about non-racialism and democracy. It is merely the cover under which the real battle is fought. Once you understand the real motive, you will understand the whole context within which the ideological struggle is taking place in South Africa, communism vs capitalism, total control vs personal freedom.

Suddenly, the far-sightedness of the total assessment no longer became so far-fetched. After all, Ramaphosa made it clear during the negotiations between 1992 and 1994 that the ANC would not take everything in unison, bu
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Taxpayers forks out R5.4 million for absent civil servants who are currently sitting at home and doing absolutely nothing

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Taxpayers have so far paid about R5.4 million on civil servants salaries who sit at home due to improper sickness or temporary disability leave in the past year and not doing any work at all. The largest amount of money was paid out by the Department of Environmental Affairs with a huge sum of R1,6 million.

The information was recently disclosed in parliamentary responses recently in response to a series of official questions asked by IFP MPs over a period of time. Barbara Creecy, Minister of Environmental Affairs, Forestry and Fisheries, acknowledged that there are currently five employees at her department, on approved disability leave due to injury or illness. One of the officials has been suspended but is still receiving a salary. According to her, the department has so far paid out R1,6 million.

Network 24 reports that in the forestry department,three officials in the Eastern Cape and one in Limpopo also apply for extended sick leave or temporary
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Empty promises leave Free State residents fuming, Mayor’s house burnt down due to frustration on water crisis

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Mayor Mamiki Mokoena, of the Nketoana municipality, which includes Reitz, Petrus Steyn, Arlington and Lindley in the Free State, house in Petrus Steyn has been destroyed after angry residents burnt it down to show their anger towards the shortage of water in the areas.

Residents’ anger over the ongoing water crisis has apparently boiled over after no running water has been available for a week. Mokoena allegedly arranged for two tankers to deliver water to her father, Benedict Nakedi, over the weekend for an alleged family gathering. This while the rest of the township’s residents had to cope without water. These actions apparently contributed to the residents’ anger.

Heleen Müller, FF Plus councilor in Petrus Steyn says that the water crisis was apparently caused by a broken water pump that was temporarily replaced by a smaller water pump that could not supply the necessary amount of water. She argues that the crisis was brought to
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12,432 SASSA beneficiaries defrauded on social grants toting up to R21 million

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Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu announced in a parliamentary reply on Tuesday that about 20,787 fraud cases were registered at the Post Office by June 28 this year. Furthermore, it has also been revealed that 12 432 pensioners as well as other beneficiaries have been deceived in the past year from their social grants, collectively more than R21 million.

Liezl van der Merwe, IFP MP, wanted to know from Zulu how many fraudulent pensioners and other beneficiaries had reported to the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) over the past 12 months, whether it was resolved and whether the stolen money was recovered . To which Zulu replied that criminal investigations are currently pending and that the money was never recovered.

Van der Merwe also wanted to know what Sassa is doing to stop corruption and fraudulent transactions with Sassa cards. Zulu replied that the beneficiaries report fraud with their social grants at their nearest Sassa offi
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Multi-Billion coal-fired power station in crisis – Not one of Kusile’s six units is delivering power into the grid due to lack of skill and maintenance

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Eleven years after construction started on Eskom’s massive 4800 MW Kusile coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga province, South Africa, not one of its six 800 MW generator units is currently delivering power into the grid.

Construction started at Kusile in 2008, and all six generation units were planned to be in commercial service by the end of 2014. However, the sad reality is that by the end of July 2019, five years after 2014, only Unit 1 at Kusile has been handed over for commercial service.

While Units 2 and 3 have been synchronised to the grid, they are still undergoing testing and commissioning, and the units are not in commercial service yet.

“It must be noted that only Unit 1 is in commercial operation, and Units 2 and 3 are still in the commissioning process following first synchronisation”, said Eskom deputy spokesperson Dikatso Mothae yesterday.

But worse, major design, execution and operational problems are being exper
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We are in big trouble! With more firms shutting their doors ‘South Africa is getting poorer’ and paints a bleak picture of the state of the economy

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According to the figures released by Statistics SA the number of liquidations increased by 24.9% in the second quarter of this year compared with the same period for last year.

The estimated number of insolvencies increased by 4.6% in May and a 15.2% increase was estimated in the first five months of this year.

Economist Mike Schussler said: “We are in trouble. A lot of firms are in trouble and South Africa is getting poorer. I think we are in a space where its not going to get easy getting the economy going.”

Schussler said the companies have felt a pinch where there has been little to no growth,

“There is no demand any more for certain industries and when there is no demand its difficult to match prices compared to other companies. We are not on our last leg just yet but we are in a very vulnerable position,” he said.

The StatsSA figures showed that the three worst-hit industries were agriculture with nine business closin
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White lives don’t matter! Farm-owner succumbed to injuries after he was “made to drink poison” by attackers, police did not labelled this an official farm murder but home robbery instead

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Police are reluctant to label the incident as a “farm murder”, but this partcular killing of a farmer in Fochville, Gauteng is just as horrendous.

A shocking case has surfaced from Gauteng this weekend after a farm-owner in Fochville succumbed to the injuries he sustained during a brutal attack at his property. The assailants are reported have tied up, beaten and poisoned the victim before making their escape, leaving him for dead.

The local police force in Westonaria have not labelled this an official farm murder. But the SAPS have instead filed it under a “home robbery”. The devils are in the detail – including the criminals’ motivations and movements – but authorities are remaining tight-lipped about much of the investigation. The victim died on-arrival at the hospital.

One person who has been speaking out about this crime is Ina Cilliers. The DA MPL and Constituency Head for Merafong has been left dismayed by the news,
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ANC at fault for municipal chaos, collapse of infrastructure and to blame for water shortages

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The single biggest reason why residents in certain municipal regions have water shortages is the chaos in municipalities across the country, particularly those under ANC governance that do not pay their water accounts.

The Minister admitted that part of the problem is the collapse of infrastructure. It is too bad that she did not also admit that it is the ANC’s fault.

It is becoming increasingly unacceptable to blame the previous dispensation. Apartheid has nothing to do with the ANC’s fraud, corruption and sheer inability to govern. Municipalities’ outstanding debt to nine different water councils currently amounts to R14 billion. The money cannot simply be written off.

And the water that is available gets wasted or polluted. In April this year, the FF Plus lodged a criminal complaint against the manager of the Mafube Local Municipality due to the dumping of raw sewage in the Wilge River at Frankfort. The municipality’s sewage plant has
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Black African population is in the majority and constitutes approximately 81% of the total SA population -Population increases by 900 000 from 2018 and has risen to 58.8 million

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The South African population has risen to 58.8 million from 2018’s 57. 9 million, figures released by Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) Statistician General Risenga Maluleke have revealed.

The statistics are contained in the 2019 mid-year population estimates report released on Monday.

Of the 58.8 million, 51% are female while 49% are male.

Maluleke said births remained the main driver of population growth in South Africa. Population figures were also impacted by deaths and immigration.

The report reveals that by mid-2019, the country had recorded 1.2 million births, 200 000 net migration, while 500 000 deaths were recorded.

More than half the population, the report reveals, lives in Gauteng, Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.

About 15 million (25.8%) South Africans live in Gauteng. Just over 11 million (19.2%) people reside in KwaZulu-Natal while 6.8 million South Africans (11.6%) stay in the Western Cape.

Mid-year po
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