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Sipho Pityana: ‘Zuma Must Go! South Africa Is Not The Guptas’ Personal ATM’

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“Everything is captured.” More magic available at jerm.co.za. Save South Africa has been one of many civil society bodies at the forefront of fighting state capture and the Zuptas. At a gathering in Johannesburg’s Rhema Church on Tuesday, convenor Sipho Pityana, delivered another scathing attack on Zuma, calling on him to step down. With a multitude of civil society bodies..
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Pension funds in ANC crosshairs source of funding for state development

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The ANC has again set its sights on pensioners’ retirement money as a potential source of funding for state development. At the close of its policy conference this week the party said it would investigate the use of prescribed assets, one of the proposals to come out of its economic transformation deliberations. The proposal was..
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Moses Kgosana, Unrepentant Gupta Tax Dodge ‘Lapdog’ Shoots The Messenger As He Feels The Heat – WATCH!

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EDINBURGH — Expect to hear a lot more about Moses Kgosana, the KPMG heavyweight linked to the Gupta tax dodge that facilitated a flow of R30m from taxpayers to cover an extravagant family wedding at Sun City. That wedding is the event that raised alarm bells that the Gupta family exerted extraordinary influence at the highest levels of government..
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Black-owned And Led Institutions Have A Legacy of Corruption – EFF

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The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) says black-owned and led institutions in South Africa are known for their legacy of nepotism, corruption and kleptocracy. EFF made the assertion while it was celebrating the VSB Mutual Bank decision to shut the Gupta’s business accounts. Earlier this month, it emerged that the VSB Mutual Bank closed the accounts..
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These Charts Show The Dire State Of South Africa’s Economy

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There Is Bad News All Around. There is not an awful lot of good news about. And every time we battle to pull off some improvement, government tends to score an own goal. Witness the exchange rate’s reaction and JSE selloff over the past few days following the Mining Charter ‘announcement’ as well as the..
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Concourt asks for a ‘bad faith’ enquiry on Dlamini and social grants.

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The Constitutional Court on Thursday declined to hold social grants minister Bathabile Dlamini personally liable for legal costs in the social grants fiasco – for now. Instead it ordered a legal inquisition of sorts centred on whether she had misled the court, a process that could still force her to pay legal costs out of..
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There are so many red flags in ESKOM … where do you start ??

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South Africa’s state owned enterprises have been hit by one scandal after another signalling serious political and corporate governance failures. The largest of these, the power utility Eskom, has seen its CEO Brian Molefe resign, then return, and then be fired – all in the space of seven months. This was followed by the unexpected..
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Survé, Guptas Imitate Ethos, Practices Of Apartheid Newspapers

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CAPE TOWN — One of the most attractive things about the Fourth Estate is that it manages to equalise the otherwise deeply skewed power balance between billionaires and politicians, and humble, hard-working, honest scribes who can take them on, blow for blow. In the battle for hearts and minds, bent and manipulative politicians and captains..
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Koebaai Na Dubai: Thieving Piece Of S**t, Jacob Zuma, Wants To Flee South Africa

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Black Marxist criminals in bed with Indian mafia running South Africa? Conspiracy theory? That is what they accused us right-wingers of for at least ten years now. Now this past week some prominent academics at the universities of Johannesburg, Wits, Pretoria and Stellenbosch, as well as the South African Council of Churches, after eventually getting..
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Education in SA is pathetic – 5‚139 teachers who are unqualified or under-qualified, maybe you should consider homeschooling !!

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Every day‚ tens of thousands of school children are being taught by teachers who aren’t qualified to do the job. The result is that pupils are “not receiving the quality of teaching they’re supposed to be getting”‚ the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SADTU) has admitted. And with mathematics and the sciences the subjects hardest..
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