Posts tagged with 'taxpayers'

 

VIDEO: “Farm Murderers Paid by ANC & EFF To Kill” Says Zimbabwean Truck Driver in SA, on His Way To Canada!

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A sound recording received by SA-News, which cannot be verified, but sounds authentic given the background noise, portrays an interview with a Zimbabwean truck driver in South Africa, who has somehow managed to arrange to go to Canada in November. He claims that farm murderers are locals and foreigners, that are paid by both the ANC and EFF, using taxpayers money! He says ANC and Ramaphosa are trying to play a smart game.

He claims blacks do not care about food security but get paid a lot of money to do the murders. He also says South African blacks are not learning the lesson from Zimbabwe’s mistakes.

The soundtrack is played over a slideshow of some of the farm attacks and murders in the last few weeks.

The second part of the video portrays a couple who were victims of a farm attack in Petrusburg in the Free-state, showing them being treated by the Emergency medical crew preparing to take them to hospital.

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Taxpayers fork out more than R76m for funeral cost of ANC veterans

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Public Works Minister Patricia de Lille has vowed to act against officials implicated in irregular expenditure related to the late stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s funeral and those of two other ANC veterans.

It’s alleged a service provider inflated invoices, costing taxpayers a staggering R76 million.

De Lille has reportedly recommended that government should cap state funerals.

The minister said those implicated must be called to account.

“This is an ongoing investigation. We will make sure that we get to the bottom of this. We have already taken action against four senior officials in the department.”

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De Lille reveals over 3,000 Public Works employees do business with department and 300 of those employees have their own companies

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Patricia De Lille says more needs to be done to ensure people who work for the state don’t do business with the department

Public Works Minister Patricia de Lille has revealed more than 3,700 Public Works employees are doing business with the department.

She said 300 of those employees have their own companies and, in some instances, they had not declared the conflict of interest to the department.

The latest shocking revelations come as the Public Works Department investigates irregular expenditure relating to three state funerals that cost taxpayers a whopping R76 million.

It’s alleged a service provider inflated invoices for the funerals of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former minister Zola Skweyiya and former chief of state protocol Billy Modise.

De Lille said more needed to be done to ensure people who work for the state don’t do business with the department.

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ANC regime’s Multi-BILLION Rand water project in Bosveld does not deliver a single drop of water!

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No water

It has now been five years since the big water project for the Bushveld area was started. The outcome was to supply water to some 50 small villages where black people live.
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President Cyril wants to squander R25bn of taxpayers’ money on projects in Northern Transvaal

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“From now on, every model will be seriously monitored, and those who show up with corruption plans will be asked to leave,” was ANC President Ramaphosa’s warning during the kick-off opportunity of his R25 billion project.

Ramaphosa undertook to visit the Northern Transvaal for two days to attend the two separate projects kick-off events.

The two projects being undertaken are of paramount importance and can have a significant impact on many people in the area’s lives if managed properly.

The projects have apparently attracted the interest of various institutions that have bought in, and are apparently part of a so-called multi-billion Rand development model of the district.

Waterberg District is believed to be leading the mining towns and agricultural divisions involving factories, and the program is expected to reduce the unemployment rate currently being experienced.

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R84 million Free State Cuban Technical Advisers Program died a sudden death without solving the “water problem”

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The Secretary-General of the ANC, and former Prime Minister of the Free State, Ace Magashule’s plan to bring Cuban engineers to South Africa to solve the Free State’s “water problems”, then wasted millions of Rand.

The so-called Cuban engineers were welcomed with a huge ceremony when they came here from Cuba for four years.

Of the 37 Cubans, who spent them as engineers, only three remain in the Free State.

Mgasjule’s impressive “Free State Cuban Technical Advisers Program, which cost taxpayers more than R84 million, then died, like so many other projects, in sudden death without the” water problem “being solved.

The eminent engineers, whose qualifications are not recognized in South Africa, also had to see that service delivery in the Free State municipalities was increased, could not make do with the ANC workers, and no positive results were achieved.

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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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Bloodhounds are sucking SA motorists dry so that the ANC can benefit – total fuel tax comes to R5.73 now while little of the levy is intended for the right purpose due to corruption and mismanagement

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A newly released report shows that South Africa’s motorists are being “sucked dry” with heavy levies while little of its intended for the right purpose.

Ten years ago, the total tax on fuel was R1.77 and now it has become R5.73 per liter.

Financial experts point out that the government is abusing the fuel levy to maintain their extravagant stance, whatever the new president of the country is trying to say.

Billions of rand are progressing this way every year, but the public says they see nothing that the government is doing with the money, except to pay excessively high salaries to workers who are not always up to the post occupied.

This is seen as one of the main reasons why the economic situation of taxpayers, businessmen and the state is getting worse.

-Vryburger / 2019-07-12
This report does not necessarily reflect the opinion of SA news.

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Economist Dawie Roodt “South Africa is headed for a Zimbabwe situation” – He’s warning us to ‘take our money elsewhere’

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Financial expert Dawie Roodt has explained the chain of events he believes will see South Africa follow the same path Zimbabwe has.

Roodt wrote in a column for the Huffington Post this week how South Africa’s economic woes will eventually lead to state looting of taxpayers, then savers, and eventually investors.

Where South Africa will get its money from
Given that there is a R50bn tax hole South Africa needs to fill, the state may already be moving onto those with money invested in the country (those with pensions are a particularly vulnerable target). The economist explained that SA looks likely to follow trends set by other states who have drained their reserves:

“In short, once the state’s finances reach a certain level of sustainability, a typical pattern is for a state to first steal from its taxpayers until it runs out of taxpayers, then to steal from its savers until it runs out of savers and then, depending on other things,
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Poor workmanship and unfinished work by BEE company cost taxpayers R102 million

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Poor and incomplete work at a development in Germiston leads to thousands of rands being lost with a R102 million project undertaken by the Development Bank and the Ekurhuleni municipality.

The project is wrecking due to the inability of the contractor, TCT Civil & Construction, to complete the work.

Poor workmanship is just one of the problems as the project had to be completed in January 2019.

Postponement until April 2019 did not yield any result. TCT, according to their website, is committed to transformation and empowerment and is a BEE company.

However, the company blames other contractors for the delay, but the R5,000 penalty clause imposed could be R170 000. Furthermore, the Development Bank believes that the construction company is not guilty of poor workmanship.

-Vryburger
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How much taxpayers money has been thrown into SAA’s black hole to stay afloat?

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Billions and billions have been thrown at The South African Airways (SAA), but the airline don’t have much to show for it. It’s hard to recall a time when the limpest of all our state-owned entities was successful on its own two feet.  It has a history of relying on fiscal interventions, needing contributions from both private firms and the taxpayer just to stay airborne.  Over the last 20 years, their borrowing has been obscene, merely a few days ago the board has requested yet another  additional R4 billion to stay afloat this financial year.

According to a SAA spokesperson the company requested the R4 billion bailout as it has been operating at a loss since 2011. The entity needs has approximately R450 million a month  to keep operations running. The airline’s generated revenue of R30.4bn in 2016-17 while operating costs amounted to R30.9bn. Finance costs totalled R835m and the operating loss was R533m. The losses have continued into
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Whopping salaries and perks for new cabinet: here are the numbers – Spouses and children also set to score footed by taxpayers money

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Luxury travel, free housing and domestic staff along with salaries in the R2m a year bracket are all in store for the politicians who woke up as freshly minted members of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet on Thursday.

AfricaCheck has crunched the numbers and found that cabinet ministers will receive an annual salary of R2,401,633.

Deputy ministers will receive an annual salary of R1,977,795.

Ramaphosa earns R2,874,851 a year while deputy president David Mabuza’s salary is R2,825,470.

A look at the perks

The ministerial handbook is a guide to the “benefits and privileges” that members of cabinet are entitled to, but government views it as a “classified, confidential document,” says AfricaCheck.

The ministerial handbook regulates everything from spending on Christmas cards to the picking of flowers at state residences (one needs permission from the chief horticulturalist to do so), but here is a look at t
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