The kingpins of South Africa’s biggest pyramid scheme in history, Billie Eilish album review, Gwede Mantashe asks SA to give party another chance, AND OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train AI on your posts.
Major upgrades for South Africa’s main airports, Hostage situation at McDonald’s in Durban, 1.3 tons of cocaine found hidden in frozen fish, Mantashe crowns himself most productive energy minister, and The Annual Walk-a-Thon for Capetonian doggies is back.
We are so used to seeing people with posters that, at first, you could have mistaken them for ANC backup singers that usually appear whenever a comrade stands behind a podium.
Steve Hofmeyr gets booted from his cruise party, Michigan reels from another student shooting, Diplomats nervous about the Russia/SA wargames, Gwede says Minister of Electricity just a ‘project manager’, new contender for US presidency, and the booming ‘hitman’ market in South Africa comes under the spotlight.
Zapiro has had plenty of practice when it comes to mocking Eskom and our government. This time around, he’s looking at Gwede Mantashe, our Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy.
Mantashe, our Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy and also the ANC’s national chairperson, once fell so hard for an April Fools’ Joke that he presented it at a mining conference in Perth.
Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, recently jetted off to Australia for a mining conference. It wasn’t taxpayer money well spent.
Time and time again Jacob Zuma manages to weave his way out of a corner, and we have seen that like never before these past few days. Prepare for the cringe.
After the ConCourt’s ruling, people couldn’t understand why Jacob Zuma wouldn’t resign – but Gwede Mantashe reveals all.
Who thought that a national political party would use a social media platform so well that they would be awarded for it? Maybe some other parties out there should take heed?
The Film and Publication Board has just given The Spear painting a “16N” rating. This means that children under the age of 16 should not have access to the artwork because it displays nudity.
A protest march is currently underway and heading towards the Goodman Gallery, with people having been bussed in from as far as Mpumalanga and Limpopo. Check out all the action, and protest signs, after the jump.
Remember Paul Molesiwa, the security guard we saw in the video of the two guys vandalising the Zuma penis painting? Louis Mabokela, one of the two vandals, laid a charge of assault against him after Molesiwa was shown on camera head-butting and flipping Mabokela to the floor. Molesiwa is expected in court today.
So far we’ve heard from everyone regarding the controversial Jacob Zuma painting, “The Spear”, apart from the actual artist himself. In an affidavit to the police leading to his court case, Brett Murray explains why he created this work. Read it inside.
Today the ANC is in court over the controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma and his penis. Some of his supporters have gathered outside the South Gauteng High Court, along with six of his children. The other 12 of his confirmed 18 kids were absent. See the first pics of all the excitement inside.
The ANC’s Secretary General, Gwede Mantashe, has thrown down the gauntlet to South Africa’s relations with so-called developed Western countries, including the USA and the Eurozone, in favour of cash-rich developing countries like China and India. Is South Africa banking on the East in spite of the West?
I was wondering how long this was going to take. The ANC is currently in preperations for its court date at the Johannesburg High Court tomorrow, to get the painting of JZ and his junk taken down. After today’s NEC meeting, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe had some choice words for the media.
The ratifying of the Protection of Information bill may be delayed. Opponents of the so-called Secrecy Bill – 3 000 of whom took to the streets of Cape Town on Saturday in support of the Right2Know campaign – may have claimed a minor victory in their battle against the controversial Bill. Further vigils will take place across the country tonight.