What makes South Africa so special
How will the 2010 impact our lives?
1) Schools will be closed for about over 4 weeks during the World Cup – it was apparently legislated last week. What do you do with your kids?
2) Air tickets to Cape Town (for example) will cost about R8,000 per seat as some flights [...]
The number of national and provincial roads in “poor” and “very poor” condition is more than double what it was 10 years ago and the number in “good” or “very good” condition is a third of what it was 10 years ago. These are some of the shock findings made in a new research report [...]
Here on the dark continent traditional healers can be found on virtually every street corner. Competition is stiff now days with everybody doing a quick crash course in the bush.
These so called healers have taken on the western ways to a degree. They advertize via countless flyers on the street corners and at intersection you [...]
Will the city officials budget for inner city streets to be cleaned up.
South Africans will have a new passport – with undisclosed security features built into it – next month.
Revealing this at a media briefing on Thursday, Safety and Security Minister Nathi Mthethwa said that the passport will have “highly complex security features”. Minister of Home affairs, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula declined to say what the features were, adding [...]
Is it possible one tarnishes one’s city is that we want to save the lions in Kruger Park from refugees – “At present, it’s estimated that there are 2,000 lions in the Kruger National Park and studies suggest 90% have feline Aids. Some vets suggest the epidemic was started by lions eating the lungs of [...]
Due to the political and financial stability achieved in Zimbabwe between Morgan “ organ grinder monkey” Tsvangarai and the compassionate Dr Robert “happy birthday” Gabriel Mugabe, the South African government has passed an urgent bill in parliament that will link the ailing SA rand to the Zim dollar.The historical land mark decision was adopted by [...]
The Department of Home Affairs has urged people who have been erroneously declared dead to visit its offices to get their deceased status expunged.
In a statement, the department said those who had been declared dead will need to “provide a sworn affidavit and a full set of fingerprints”.
The department said it would take two [...]
> Zuma’s Wives
> Number One
> Sizakele Khumalo – whom he met in 1959. She lives at his rural R1,5-million
> home at Nkandla in northern KwaZulu- Natal and they have no children.
> Ex-wife
> Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma , with whom he had four
> children: Msholozi, 24, Gugu, 22, Thuli, 21 and Thuthi, 19. [...]
This man deserves the Nobel Prize in the ‘Common Sense’ category.
‘They’re standing on the corner and they can’t speak English.
I can’t even talk the way these people talk:
Why you ain’t,
Where you is,
What he drive,
Where he stay,
Where he work,
Who you be…
And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.
And then [...]
I recall on “RRAAAACCCIIISSSTT” websites a while back, that it was stated that it won’t be long before ANC Justice takes it toll and Shaik is released looooong before he has paid his dues to society.
Judge for yourself:
Jacob Zuma’s former financial adviser, jailed businessman Schabir Shaik, could be home within months. Shaik, convicted on [...]
An officer of the Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) is due to appear in court for unauthorised use of a state vehicle and on suspicion of drug dealing, among other charges.
JMPD Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said yesterday the officer, 40, who has been in the service for 15 years, was arrested at his home in [...]
Zimbabwe’s cash-strapped government has resorted to slaughtering elephants to feed thousands of hungry soldiers, sources told ZimOnline.
The state Parks and Wildlife Management Authority has since last week supplied elephant meat to army barracks across the country that have run out of food, our sources who are senior officers in the army said.
Zimbabwe is battling acute [...]
An elderly Brackenfell couple was found shot dead in their bed – both with wounds to their heads.
Their 46-year-old son was found next to them, barely alive.
Police said the Marina Strydom’s sister had raised the alarm yesterday after arriving at the house in Eland Street, Brackenfell, to find the front door unlocked.
Strydom, 67, [...]
The descent of Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe regime into thuggery has accelerated as his hold on power slips in the face of total economic collapse.
But the news of the brutal mass murder of illegal miners by machine gun-wielding soldiers in helicopters has shocked the world.
According to The Guardian newspaper: “Zimbabwean air force helicopter swept over the [...]