Eskom – 8 April 2019 With colder weather conditions expected across the country and the demand of electricity projected to increase, the power system is forecasted to be tight for this week. The winter plan indicates a higher demand, with three days being extremely tight, with a high risk of loadshedding. South Africans can make […]
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Adv Hoffman to NPA – stop playing (possum) dead, start prosecuting
Paul Hoffman SC, Director Accountability Now 2 April 2019 Sunday press reports are notorious for their inaccuracy. One in the Sunday Times suggests that the National Prosecuting Authority is going to play possum when it comes to countering grand corruption in the pre-election period. Hopefully the rumour spread in the media is dead wrong. Quite apart […]
At the helm Magashule presided over some of these scandals
It is time for Ace Magashule to fall, and for SA to rise Patricia Kopane, DA Free State Premier Candidate – 1 April 2019 It is a real travesty that the province of the Free State with hard-working citizens and bountiful resources has been sold off to the highest bidder by the former Premier and […]
South Africa has a plan to fight prejudice. But it’s full of holes
It lets post-apartheid leadership off the hook for exacerbating inequality and failing to curb emergent forms of discrimination. Loren B Landau, Research Chair on Mobility & the Politics of Diversity. Migration; Urban Transformation, Xenophobia and Inclusion, University of the Witwatersrand The South African government has launched a plan aimed at addressing pervasive prejudice in the […]
Land reform in South Africa is doomed unless freed from political point-scoring
Sonwabile Mnwana, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Fort Hare Black landlessness has become a convenient weapon for political populists in South Africa. With elections around the corner, the lingering questions about land reform are ever more crucial and timely. But, challenging questions need to be debated if a radical land reform programme is to be […]
The ANC’s Party List and Scenarios for May 2019 and 2025
Theuns Eloff: Executive Director, FW de Klerk Foundation 22 March 2019 The ANC recently published the list of its members who will go to Parliament following the May election. These people will form the ANC Caucus in Parliament; they must support President Ramaphosa in his plans to set the government and the economy on a firm footing. If one takes a closer look, […]
ESKOM CRISIS: National Day of Action on Friday 29 March – DA
The Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni, has confirmed in a letter to the DA that the National Treasury does not know how big the proposed bailout to Eskom will be. Mmusi Maimane, Leader of the Democratic Alliance – 20 March 2019 My fellow South Africans, Today we are here outside Eskom’s HQ, Megawatt Park, to stand with […]
Electricity Day Zero Looming??
Eskom and government have started planning for Stage 5 and Stage 6 load shedding, according to officials who say that there is a race against time to ensure that a national blackout and grid collapse does not happen. At the first major briefing to explain the fourth day of Stage 4 power cuts, Minister of […]
Malema’s white slaughter remarks: The SAHRC’s findings
8 March 2019 To: Complainant Our ref: KZ/1617/0259/HO (Kindly quote our reference number in all correspondences with the SAHRC) Dear Complainant RE: YOUR COMPLAINT AGAINST JULIUS MALEMA We refer to your complaint lodged with the Commission. In your complaint, you alleged that in November 2016, Mr Malema made the following statement about White people: “…They […]
SAHRC’s Latest Finding on Julius Malema
The SAHRC brushed aside the truly chilling implication that Malema might call for the slaughter of white people at some later stage. by Dave Steward (FWDKF), Zohra Dawood (CUD) and Theuns Eloff (FWDKF) – 13 March 2019 It is with the greatest concern that the FW de Klerk Foundation notes the 8 March 2019 finding […]