What makes South Africa so special
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 [...]
Lampposts are being cut down and sold as scrap along with the copper cable.
About 50 have been stolen in parts of Blue Downs, Bonteheuwel and Atlantis over the past two months, costing hundreds of thousands of rands.
Blue Downs will soon have no street lights left to be sold at the current rate
Streetlight poles fetch [...]
Six men in their early 20s have handed themselves over to the police and are to face murder charges after two bodies were found in Langa at the weekend.
It was believed the six men and the two victims were part of a gang consisting of young men in the area.
It is alleged that the group [...]
Cape Town, South Africa, You are warned be careful of fish and chips. Now the copper cable is not enough for the thieves anymore. They are draining the cooling oil from transformers and selling it to fish and chips shops in townships.
This oil is called Polychlorinated biphenyls or PCB’s for short. It has been banned [...]
Being transported from the Melkbosstrand area through to Cape town at a cost of about R4 million rand. The boat is impressive in size out of the water, but guess in the water very small considering it was the Capes notorious storms that sent this boat sand surfing in the first place.
More than a quarter of the Mother City’s 250 street sex workers (28%) who have been arrested, were offered their freedom in exchange for sex with police officers, while 12% were raped by a police officer.
Furthermore, 63% were verbally abused by a police officer and 47% were threatened with physical violence by an officer of [...]
Pornographic movies will now be shown on a little television set next to a petrol pump at all major garages, so that you can watch someone else get screwed while you fill-up.
Then on the other hand filling up at petrol stations and driving off paying is quite popular now days in Cape Town. Many a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
ALWAYS ask for a cash slip when filling up your vehicle’s tank , even if
paying with cash and even if you intend on throwing the slip away,
because….
* The pump attendants take these unclaimed cash slips from the cash
register attendant and sell these same cash slips to taxi drivers
* The [...]
Anyone who has not been in Cape town since around the mid to late 90’s would get a shock To see how much more traffic there is on the roads today! It is bumber to bumper and if you are in the thick of it between the airport and Athlone, you had better be prepared [...]
The department of transport has warned motorists to steer clear of the M4 between Umdloti and Umhlanga because the road is “sinking” and has been closed.
Authorities didn’t know why the road had started to sink, but that engineers were evaluating the situation and suspect poor maintenance.
The M4 southbound, from the Umdloti interchange to the Umhlanga [...]
A makeshift refugee camp, housing over 1 000 desperate asylum seekers, has sprung up on the Foreshore.
As if South Africa was the master of all Africa – today its seen as a safe place by all manner of refugees from the north of the border. Thousands flock to SA every day to milk the SA [...]
Driving around Cape Town recently one only hope and prey the city council will ease up on their self enrichment policy and spent a little of the taxpayers money on cleaning the city up. At the current rate of decline Cape Town will soon be looking like Johannesburg”s inner city city and surrounding suburbs.
Groote [...]
Ja..nee…only in South Africa! Slowly doesn’t do it any more for some – especially in the little backwater town of Hendrina, where a motorist has been fined R100 for doing 53km/h in a 60km/h zone.
In Church Street, the town’s main street, the long arm of the law, that prowls the empty streets at night…waiting..in fast [...]