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Jacob Zuma is a natural born political survivor. Yesterday the president overcame an eighth no confidence vote, despite the mountain of evidence of corrupt conduct that has emerged in recent months. But it may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory – for him and most certainly for his party, the African National Congress (ANC). “Hollow” […]

The Western Cape ANC welcomed Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu’s decision to take the Western Cape government to court over the sale of the Tafelberg property, saying it will help reverse the legacy of apartheid. In March, the provincial cabinet announced it approved the sale of the property to the Phyllis Jowell Jewish Day School […]

Clinical psychologists and a Zulu culture expert have punched holes in President Jacob Zuma’s claim that stress is a “white man’s disease”. Zuma said Zulu people did not suffer from it as it was a foreign concept to them. Brushing aside calls for him to step down during his 75th birthday bash in Kliptown‚ he […]

As he launches the African Regional Centre of the New Development Bank (NDB) in Sandton on Thursday, nearly 18 months behind schedule, Jacob Zuma must have mixed feelings. Strife-riven Brazil, Russia, India and China are more risky allies than Zuma reckoned when in 2010 he accepted Beijing’s invitation to join the club. “I was poisoned […]

Two equal evils, poverty and inequality lie at the root of South Africa’s economic problems. Both should be treated equally. If the focus is only on inequality, it will create an economy where everyone is equally poor, except the elite which holds power, said adv. Anton Alberts, chairman of the FF Plus. Adv. Alberts said […]

Over a two year time span, South African Claudine Van Wyk lost three beloved family members in a series of gruesome farm attacks in the troubled African nation. Her story is hardly unique. The horrendous violence that has become so common in South Africa is a terror that even Crossborder violence or irrational violence against […]

A well known campaigner fighting against poaching in Africa, who has exposed high level corruption in poaching, at diplomatic and ministerial level, has had to flee her country and seek refuge in Ireland. However more than 8 months after arriving in secret, she is stuck in limbo and her work, safety and charity have been badly compromised. Meanwhile countless other migrants from Africa have arrived after her and been processed ahead of her, in an Asylum system which even some Irish people find embarrassing.

In another merciless farm attack, a farmer of the Wepener district in the Free State and his domestic worker were shot dead on Thursday, April 20. Mr. Pieter Van Der Berg (49), and a domestic worker (55) were shot and killed after suspects gained entry into the residence. The suspects ransacked the house, and the […]

That South Africa has a high murder rate is hardly a surprise, but when the numbers are laid out so prominently, it really hits home. A report released by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) on Thursday revealed that around 445 835 murders had been recorded in the country between April 1994 and March 2016. […]

South Africa’s offshore has just yielded a massive natural gas and condensate find that could open a new exploration province for oil majors and change the energy fortunes of the country. France’s major Total said that it had made a significant discovery on the Brulpadda prospects off the southern coast of South Africa. “With this discovery, Total has opened a new world-class gas and oil play and is well positioned to test several follow-on prospects on the same block,” said Kevin McLachlan, Senior Vice President Exploration at Total. According to Total’s chief executive Patrick Pouyanne, the discovery could hold 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent of gas and condensate resources. The operator of the license, Total, and its partners Qatar Petroleum, CNR International, and South African consortium Main Street, now plan to acquire 3D seismic data this year, followed by up to four exploration wells on the license. “It is exciting for our country that this

Long live poverty! Where would the rich be without the poor? More particularly, where would Zuma be? Failure to recognise these questions leads to a too easy dismissal of the ANC’s currently loudest and most persistent war-cry: radical economic transformation. Eusebius McKaiser is hardly alone in rubbishing the term as meaningless. Supposedly without meaning, he […]

Links Nederland zwijgt als het graf, sinds afschaffing Apartheid Massamoord in Zuid Afrika van bijna half miljoen mensen Bijna een half miljoen mensen zijn door moord omgekomen in Zuid Afrika sinds de afschaffing van de Apartheid in 1994. Na de vrijlating van Mandela werd er op de wereld door alle linkse mensen feest gevierd, omdat […]

Grace Mugabe, wife of Zimbabwean Robert Mugabe and a possible successor to his throne presidency, has been accused of assaulting a woman in an apartment in Johannesburg. She is due to be formally charged in connection with the incident on Tuesday in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court. Zimbabweans, all too familiar with their first lady’s erratic […]

Dublin man had been due to return home within the next two weeks when he was killed in Cape Town. Irish charity worker John Curran (60), who was killed in Cape Town South Africa on Wednesday, was due to return to Ireland within the next two weeks having completed a contract with Mellon Educate, the Irish-based African development charity, in Capetown. He had been director of education for the charity there since October 2016. Mr Curran was stabbed to death in his city centre apartment in Cape Town, South African on Wednesday. Police spokesperson Captain Ezra October told The Irish Times on Thursday that Mr Curran was found deceased on Wednesday morning. “Our forensic team has been at the scene of the crime gathering evidence and the body has been taken to the mortuary,” he said. A murder case has been opened by the police but no arrests have been made yet, Captain October added. Mr Curran, from Templeogue, had been founding principal of Good Sh