What makes South Africa so special
Johannesburg – Eight people – including a one-year-old baby – were killed in an accident during a high speed car chase on the M1 South in Johannesburg on Monday, police said.
“Police became suspicious of a silver-grey Toyota Corolla, with five occupants, parked at a Sasol garage in Booysens around 01:30,” said police spokesperson Captain William [...]
Cape town lost is place as the cleanest city recently but ar least its not as filthy as Pretoria!
This new locking system invented in South Africa is patent pending!
Get this, The SABC sends out letters of final demand for TV license fees. Even the dead are not exempt from not paying up, failing which you [...]
Soaring food prices have hit millions of South Africans hard: more than half of the 47-million population lives below the $1 a day bread price. Increasingly food is being looted during organized protest campaigns by trade unions and residents. During a riot in Carltonville near Johannesburg on May 1 2008, this store was extensively plundered. [...]
South Africa has come under fire for blocking a move by the United Nations to declare Friday’s one man run-off election in Zimbabwe as illegitimate.
Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change says the election was a sham and that President Robert Mugabe remains in power because of President Thabo Mbeki’s help.
The MDC’s Nqobizitha Mlilo says they [...]
An extensive campaign has been launched by trade union Solidarity to break through the silence which surrounds the growing poverty of many hundreds of thousands of white South Africans – mostly Afrikaners.
They say that the government is ignoring the fact that the Poor White Problem is now taking on [...]
Check out the depth of this pothole on a major thoroughfare in Secunda in the Free State. Local residents increasingly are teaming up to repair their own roads because municipalities are either collapsing, have no engineering staff or have run out of money in spite of sky-high municipal taxes residents have to pay.
Desperate SA [...]
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Above Maputo in 1980
Maputo in 2007, a picture is often worth a thousand words, long live Africa. Johannesburg’s central business district has also suffered from the African democratic style of city management.
The government is importing hundreds of Cuban engineers and architects, in addition to doctors from Cuba and Tunisia.
One can only despair at the Byzantine machinations of the government. Shortages of skills approach 48% in some departments, leading to a deterioration in essential services to citizens of the country.
However, the government is on record as [...]
This border post between South Africa and Namibia in the bone-dry Kalahari region is now being turned into a ‘farming area’ by the ANC-regime, which has actually taken some of this useless desert land and handed it over to some 315 Nama-speaking ‘previously disadvantaged’ women, and now refers to these poor women as ‘livestock farmers’. [...]
Newly discovered facts about chimpanzees’ behavior confirms that these primates are humans’ closest relatives.
Certainly female chimps have nothing to learn from the wiliest woman, according to a study by British university researchers.
They keep mum about having sex to avoid other females giving them a hard time for luring the best males.
And that’s not all. The [...]
Raw sewerage if killing off Zululand ’s fish-breeding grounds, with many thousands of fishes in the Umgeni River’s mangrove breeding grounds being wiped out because raw sewerage is spilling into the river because the electricity blackouts have cut out the local pump stations. More bad news for ecologists near any pump stations is that [...]
The UN warns personnel in SA to never land at night at the Johannesburg International Airport because of violent crime gangs. SA employees say the UN now views SA as so dangerous that they are at the same alert level as conflict-driven countries such as the Sudan’. Specific regions may not be entered by UN [...]
4,000 white pensioners face starvation in Zimbabwe
May 29 2008 — Malalane truck-driver Hannes Botha (55) since 2002 makes a monthly 2,100-km round trip to Zimbabwe – hand-delivering life-saving food parcels to 350 destitute Afrikaner and other white pensioners.
There’s some 4,000 Afrikaner pensioners living a hand-to-mouth existence in Zimbabwe today, and he hopes to [...]
The International Space Station photographed Joburg’s population’s close proximity to lethally radioactive uranium-dumps, waste from the goldmines: the angular patches,arrowed.Millions live on and next to these lethal uranium dumps.A Jan 2008 report by the SA nuclear regulator shows lethal radiation levels in groundwater and crops near the mines – and soil is 150 times as [...]
Consumers are losing millions of rand every year as credit card fraud skyrocketed in South Africa over the past three years.
This had increased in the 2006/2007 financial year to 97 percent. From last year up until present, it had gone up by another 57 percent.
Gauteng was at 46,7 percent, the Western Cape was at 19 [...]