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Just a question – Should the broadcasting Act be amended ??

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The South African Broadcasting Corporation’s recent proposal to amend the Broadcasting Act (1999) is, in principle, correct. But the manner in which the SABC wants the Act changed is helpful to the SABC and to marketing its case to the public. The Act, specifically the regulations regarding television licence fees, prescribes payment of a fee..
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State Capture – What’s Left? Oh, Total Control Of South Africa’s Capital!

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The loose propagandistic terms ‘White Monopoly Capital’ and ‘Radical Economic Transformation’ are about the ownership and control of both public and private capital by a politically-connected elite. That’s the conclusion two top University of Cape Town business and finance academics come to in this analysis. The ultimate outcome will be a centrally controlled patronage network, they say…
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Most Personal Income Tax Is Paid By only A Fraction Of South Africans

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The deputy CEO of a South African non-governmental organisation recently tweeted that close to 80% of personal income tax is contributed by 1.7 million individuals. But, as with most things to do with tax, the truth is not that simple. The deputy CEO of AfriForum, a non-governmental organisation which seeks to protect “the rights of..
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It is OK to abuse tax money as long as you beat a ‘deadline’ when a new law comes into effect

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Public officials who abused taxpayers’ money to get themselves government tenders amounting to R48 million are legally off the hook. More than 200 state employees, who were reported to management for dodgy dealings, couldn’t be touched because a new law hadn’t come into effect yet. And government can’t do anything about it, according to Eugene..
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WEF ditched democratic, inclusive pretences by facilitating new G20 privatisation.

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Durban’s World Economic Forum (WEF) Africa conference hosted some of the world’s most controversial politicians last week: not just Jacob Zuma and Malusi Gigaba, Robert Mugabe, Yoweri Museveni, King Mswati and Edgar Lungu, but also the most powerful man in Europe, German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble. At a lecture on Thursday at the University of..
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Mugabe declared that Zimbabwe most developed country after SA at the World Economic Forum on Africa

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President Robert Mugabe has told the world that his country is the second most developed in Africa in comments that are likely to befuddle suffering Zimbabweans. The Zimbabwean leader is out in South Africa’s port city of Durban, venue for the World Economic Forum on Africa. Reports from the international convention say President Mugabe took..
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Pension funds as much as R560 million may be lost due to fraudulent activities

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BEE administrator loses millions of pension funds – Pension funds of Anglo Platinum, invested in the (BBF), administered by Bophelo Benefit Services, a subsidiary of Mvumonala Holdings, may be lost due to fraudulent activities. It is estimated that as much as R560 million can be involved. Apparently, the company ‘cooked’ its 2016 financial statements to..
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Red HOT news – Wake up! SA has been gutted

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What is left of the South Africa of our dreams? Ask the thief-in-chief What do we have left now? Once there were the Scorpions, a respected crime-fighting unit. The people had faith in them. The corrupt feared them. Jacob Zuma quaked when he thought of them. Then in 2007 he took the reins of the..
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Intelligence Report: Zuma – It is mine and you can’t have it

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President Jacob Zuma has refused to urgently furnish the DA with documents, including the so-called intelligence report, on which he allegedly based his decision to fire former Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan and his deputy, Mcebisi Jonas. The DA will next week turn to the High Court in Pretoria in a bid to compel Zuma..
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Nuclear deal ruled as unlawful and unconstitutional: Learn all about the dark secrets of this shady deal

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The Western Cape High Court ruled on Wednesday that the South African government’s nuclear agreements with Russia, Korea and the US were unlawful and unconstitutional. In a landmark ruling, the Court also scrapped the South African government’s decision to buy about eight nuclear power stations — 9600MW of nuclear power. This decision was first gazetted..
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