South Africa is two days into 2020 and the first school burns. The Tokelo High School in the Vaal Triangle lost four classrooms due to arson. Panyaza Lesufi, the MEC of Education in Gauteng, is disappointed with the R4 million damage done.
#TheAfricanWay – Another day, another black school burnt down – Black learners may now have (want) to get their education in traditionally white schools?
#TheAfricanWay Toilet scandal – several senior ANC officials arrested after being awarded R650m tender to build 66,000 toilets
South African Army has also run out of money – this is how much trouble SANDF is in
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South Africa’s National Defence Force (SANDF) is in a dire financial state, and with no promise of future funding, things may still get worse.
Answering in a recent parliamentary Q&A session minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, said that current plans to get the SANDF back on track are entirely dependent on its funding.
“The prevention of the SANDF capabilities from declining further is entirely dependent on the budget allocation of the Defence Force, which has been decreasing at an alarming rate over the years with a negative impact of the entire capabilities,” she said.
“The Defence Review 2015 has been developed with a plan to arrest the decline of the SANDF but unfortunately no funding has been received to attend to the declining capabilities of the SANDF.”
Mapisa-Nqakula added that the years-long decline of the SANDF meant that it was becoming increasingly difficult to protect the country.
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SA: The Land of Destruction – With 57 murders each day, the country is more unsafe than when war-ravaged Syria
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South Africa is known as a country where violence is the dominant element that is wreaking havoc on thousands of people’s lives.
In one way or another, every reader has already been struck by the barbaric violence that just cannot be stopped by the ANC regime.
Home burglaries are the most common crime, and because the police are poorly trained, and slow to catch the villains, it becomes a better way for the criminals to make money than to do an honorable job.
Video: Anti mass immigration violence – “Rather Kill Whites, Chinese and Indians Than Blacks” say LDNA members in front of SA Embassy in Paris, France
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In Paris, in front of the SA embassy, there are members of the LDNA (Ligue de défense noire africaine) calling on blacks in South Africa to kill whites, Chinese and Indians rather than their “black brothers”. Members of the organization or black bystanders clap hands.
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The national rail system of SA is in serious trouble – PRASA had nearly 50 collisions last year alone, Transnet had nearly 1,000! – The ANC have some serious explaining to do and this is not Jan van Riebeeck or apartheid’s fault but lack of maintenance
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Railway engineer and analyst Dr Willem Sprong says the rail network can still be saved, but only just.
With only three months left on their contracts, the Passenger Rail Agency SA’s (Prasa) board still has time and money to fix the failing agency.
This is according to railway engineer and analyst Dr Willem Sprong, who is technical director for railway engineering at Gibb Engineering.
Sprong has over 20 years’ experience in the industry.
It’s not a secret that Prasa and, in fact, the national rail system are in serious trouble.
The alleged siphoning off of public funds for the benefit of the ANC exposed: How Zuma friends tried to steal R45m to buy ANC votes
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Jacob Zuma was successfully ousted as president just over a year ago, but his legacy of corruption has a long tail. As Marianne Thamm reports for the Daily Maverick, individuals close to Zuma appear to have been involved in an elaborate plan to siphon R45m through the police service to buy votes.
The plot centres around a police contract allegedly irregularly awarded – and at an inflated price. The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) believes money was to be laundered for the purchasing of votes at the ANC’s national conference in December 2017. The scandal emerged in court papers.
While the ruling party, now led by President Cyril Ramaphosa, gears up for its week of annual January 8 celebrations, culminating on Saturday 12 January at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, the cosmic debris from its life-or-death 54th elective conference in 2017 keeps pockmarking the political landscape.
Behind the scenes, the Independent Poli
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