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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
During the past four years, 111 members of the police’s elite VIP Protection Unit – responsible for protecting the president, among others – have been charged with crimes such as murder, attempted murder, rape, armed robbery and the abuse of power.
This is according to the Safety and Security Department in a reply to a recent [...]
Police Protection and Security Services boss Mzondeki Tshabalala has reportedly escaped punishment after causing a serious accident, allegedly while drunk, says the Democratic Alliance.
· Did VIP unit delete SABC footage? Source
· Blue light bullies off the hook Source
· VIP unit investigated Source
The police VIP protection unit — often referred [...]
Over 300 Cape Minstrels are in hospital this morning after taking part in a traditional street carnival to celebrate January 2 without realizing that the day was not a public holiday. According to one Minstrel bandleader the carnival was “just starting to go lekker” when it was crushed by morning rush hour traffic, scattering Minstrels [...]
Driving in town yesterday, I saw what seems to a brand new niche industry in Arsezania obviously in anticipation of the 2010 World Cup.
There was this white MB Vito van driving along and on the side and the rear, it proudly proclaimed that it was a funeral parlour, which “specialises in the repatriation of human [...]
Muti is a Zulu term for black traditional medicine. In southern Africa, muti is sometimes associated with murder and mutilation in order to excise body parts for incorporation as ingredients into medicine and concoctions used in witchcraft.
Often children and the elderly are the victims, both male and female.
An individual or [...]