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Politics
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Watch President Xi’s Translator Get Body-Slammed By South African Security Guards [Video]
25 Aug 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
This. Is. South Africa! A man thought to be Xi Jinping’s translator was body-slammed by security staff as he rushed to the Chinese President’s side.
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Finally Some Good News For South Africans Trying To Renew Driver’s Licenses
24 Aug 2023 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
Furthermore, the RTIA clarified that motorists cannot be arrested for outstanding traffic infringements unless a warrant of arrest is presented by the official.
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Another Few Brics In The Wall: Six More Countries Join Brics
24 Aug 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Argentina, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt will join the BRICS formation on 1 January 2024.
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SA Police Minister Ordered To Fork Out R3.3 Million For Man Unlawfully Jailed For Over Two Years
24 Aug 2023 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
In 2021, the state finally admitted that Mtolo’s arrest, detention and prosecution were driven by the malicious intent of the police. In all that time, the poor guy had to endure awful conditions in various SA jail cells.
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Wagner Mercenary Group Leader Dies In Suspicious Aeroplane Crash [Video]
24 Aug 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Social media has been flooded with videos showing a aeroplane, purported to have Prigozhin on board, falling from the sky.
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China Is Sending South Africa ‘Emergency Energy Equipment’ Worth R170 Million
23 Aug 2023 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
According to the MOU in question, we should be receiving a hefty amount of generators, electric vehicles, solar PV batteries and inverters. Let’s just read the fine print carefully before we get too excited.
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Bad News Brewing For Remote Workers Earning Dollars And Pounds
22 Aug 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
While countries like Spain and Portugal are making it more attractive for companies to source remote workers within their borders, SA again seems to want to head in the other direction.
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Ex-Public Protector Thuli Madonsela Invites South Africans To Hike 300km With Her To Raise Funds For Student Debt
17 Aug 2023 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
The SU Professor is embarking on a 300km walk across the Western Cape to raise funds for the #Action4Inclusion initiative, a project that aims to eliminate financial barriers in education by addressing historical student debt.
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Ex-Finnish PM Finally Gets To Let Loose After Public Scrutiny And Divorce
17 Aug 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Just two months ago Sanna Marin was the youngest female leader in the world, going toe-to-toe with Prime Minsters and Presidents from all over the world. But then came the pics of her having a night out on the dancefloor and everyone lost their minds, claiming that it was not ‘ministerial’ to have fun.
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US Court Rules That You Can Be A Drug User AND A Gun Owner
10 Aug 2023 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
In a significant legal development, a federal appeals court in the US has declared a decades-old law unconstitutional when applied to a marijuana user’s firearm ownership.
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Russia Is Returning To The Moon For The First Time In Five Decades As Space Race Heats Up
08 Aug 2023 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
Perhaps we should be grateful that Putin has his eyes cast to the heavens as opposed to our own coasts.
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Canadian Prime Minister Announces Separation from Wife of 18 Years On Instagram
03 Aug 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Trudeau shared the news on Wednesday in a post published in both English and French, writing: “Hi everyone, Sophie and I would like to share the fact that after many meaningful and difficult conversations, we have made the decision to separate.”
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Now Government Wants To Get Involved In Sport Broadcasting Rights
03 Aug 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Now you have a situation where the Department – along with the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture – want to draw up a list of the kind of sports that need to be seen as being in the national interest and therefore must be accessible to all when it’s broadcast.
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SA Turns To Nanotechnology With Ambitious New Pothole Plan
01 Aug 2023 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
In addition to the nanotechnology pilot plan, the Department of Transport also announced that in light of government ministries being seemingly unable to keep up with the task of looking after the country’s roads, many key roads will be moved to the jurisdiction of the South African National Roads Agency SOC Ltd (SANRAL).
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Premier Winde Warns Capetonians Of Severe Load Shedding To Come
01 Aug 2023 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
Thanks are due to Mr Premier for warning Cape Town citizens, but it’s hard to feel optimistic when we’re facing the darkest nights before the dawn.
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The US Finally Held A That Congressional Hearing On UFO’s [Video]
27 Jul 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
The United States Congress has finally held a public hearing into claims that the government was concealing a longstanding programme that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
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US Senator Mitch McConnell Freezes Up Mid-Sentence During Press Conference [Video]
27 Jul 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Ageism is of course not cool, but are people being discriminatory if they expect their elected officials to tell them about the policies that affect their lives without glitching like a bad dial-up connection?
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KwaZulu-Natal Roads Are A Nightmare – Truck Burnings, Multi-Car Pile-Ups, Stone-Throwers And Robbers
26 Jul 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
DA KZN spokesperson on transport Sharon Hoosen has called out the state of the provinces’ dire situation, demanding an urgent report from law enforcement to curb the chaos.
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Cape Town Will Begin Impounding Vehicles Under Stricter New Laws
24 Jul 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Laws, by-laws, regulations, higher levies and taxes. There are now so many rules and regulations governing South Africans that no sane person can be expected to keep track of it all. Perhaps we should just begin by teaching Capetonians that a red traffic light means stop. Baby steps.
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A Daring Escape Helps Gauteng Police Save Trafficking Victims
21 Jul 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
A daring escape by a human trafficking victim resulted in the rescue of three Thai nationals who were held captive at a house in Garsfontein.
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Egypt Bans Travis Scott’s Pyramid Concert As ‘Blackwashing’ Protest Continues
20 Jul 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Egyptian social media users launched a campaign to cancel Scott’s concert, citing the American rapper’s Afrocentrism, which highlights the role of Black Africans in shaping humanity. They accused the rapper, along with Netflix of glossing over of the presence of non-Black Egyptians in ancient Egypt.
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Disturbing Footage Of New ‘Tranq’ Crisis In US Is Straight Out Of Walking Dead [Video]
19 Jul 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Bruce Springsteen could not possibly have had this in mind when he wrote the hit song Streets Of Philadelphia, but the lyrics “I was bruised and battered, couldn’t tell what I felt, I was unrecognizable to myself” seems almost prophetic now.
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Two South African Engineers Imprisoned In Equatorial Guinea Are Trying To Appeal Their Shocking Sentence
12 Jul 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
The two South African engineers – Frederic Potgieter (53) from George and Peter Huxham (55) from Langebaan – are still imprisoned in Equatorial Guinea and are trying to appeal their drug smuggling conviction.
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Everyone Is Laughing At Ramaphosa Boldly Stating That “90% Of Our People Have Electricity”
12 Jul 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
The ANC is ramping up their political ‘it’s-all-rainbows-and-butterflies’ shenanigans ahead of the 2024 election.
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New Unlawful Entry Bill Wont Prohibit You From Defending Yourself
11 Jul 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
With South Africans growing more and more frazzled by the day as a seemingly endless wave of crime washes over us, the government needs to be clear when they put these bills together.
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Taxpayers Revolt – Western Cape Gov Spent R94 Million On BMWs That Have Just Been Collecting Dust
11 Jul 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
There’s nothing like a little “fiscal dumping” to get the taxpayers’ heart rates right up.
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Cape Town Residents Livid After Latest Electricity Hikes
10 Jul 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
It’s true that the City of Cape Town has been doing more than most cities to mitigate the damage caused by a plethora of issues the average South African has to bear the brunt of. But when is enough finally enough? How much more can we take?
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Rumour Has It Kate Middleton Is Making Moves To Become The Next Queen
07 Jul 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Charles may now know it, but it has become increasingly clear that he is “just a place-filler between the twin stars of Queen Elizabeth and Queen Kate”.
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The Blue Light Brigade Is Not Above The Law – What To Do If They Show Up
06 Jul 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
As it stands, Blue Light Brigades are allowed to disobey certain road rules (within reason), but that shouldn’t mean that they are above the law.
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Just Stop Oil Protesters Interrupt Play At Wimbledon In Puzzling Protest [Video]
06 Jul 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
The 2023 Wimbledon match between Grigor Dimitrov and Sho Shimabukuro was targeted by two Just Stop Oil protesters who threw orange-colored confetti and jigsaw pieces onto Court 18.
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