LIMPOPO Public Works MEC Nandi Ndalane has appointed her underqualified and inexperienced son in law to  a senior post, in what insiders say is part of a jobs for pals scheme she has been running since taking over the department in November last year. Khazamula Khoza was parachuted to the position of employee wellness director, a level 12 post five notches above a junior position (level 7) he held in another government department, allegedly at the instruction of Ndalane. This is…

THE ANC in Gauteng is in over drive to lure back voters ahead of the 2019 elections and it has started by deciding to scrap the controversial e-tolls system. This was the decision taken during the two-day provincial elective conference which we held at the St George’s Hotel in Irene where David Makhura was elected as chairperson. The system was introduced in Gauteng highways in 2013 and has been widely rejected by motorists in the province who have called for…

THE ANC in Gauteng has been backed into a corner with all sectors of society gunning for it following the election of Qedani Mahlangu as a member of the Provincial Executive Committee. Mahlangu has been at the centre of controversy since she oversaw the Life Esidimeni tragedy. Another addition that has captured people’s  attention was that of Brian Hlongwa, who was also elected to be part of the PEC.  The party is now in over drive trying to difusse the…

MASHUDU SADIKE LIMPOPO police have opened a case of attempted murder after Razeem Patel, the brother of murder accused Rameez, was shot on Sunday morning on the R71 near Polokwane. This comes a day before he was expected to testify against his brother at his on-going trial before the Limpopo High Court. Patel is currently standing trial for the murder of his 28-year-old wife and mother of three children, Fatima, who was found dead in his apartment at the suburb…

THE National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) have called on Eskom to increase workers wages or face a national picket that could possibly affect power supply. The unions told the media on Tuesday that government has to do everything in it’s power to ensure the power utility is well resourced to meet its demands or the lights will go off. The pair announced on Tuesday that they would declare a dispute of…

HUNDREDS of young girls from Orlando in Soweto, Johannesburg were given dignity and their prides restored while making sure they never miss a day of school. This came in the form of re-usable sanitary pads that were handed out at an orphanage in the area as part of donations from a partnership between different companies. EDS Projects, Power Foods together with Paracon, the ICT Resourcing Division of Adcorp Professional Services and Palesa Pads joined hands to assist iKageng, a community…

CASH-In-Transit guards embarked on a major march on Tuesday, shutting down Johannesburg’s central business district as they bemoaned the increase in attacks on their vehicles.They handed over a memorandum demanding safer working conditions to government and their bosses. Majority of their placards had one message: “Enough is enough.”  The guards said failure to provide them with safe working conditions would see South African ATMs not having money.Their memorandum was addressed to the ministries of police‚ justice and transport‚ the metro…

CASH-In-Transit guards embarked on a major march on Tuesday, shutting down Johannesburg’s central business district as they bemoaned the increase in attacks on their vehicles. They handed over a memorandum demanding safer working conditions to government and their bosses. Majority of their placards had one message: “Enough is enough.”  The guards said failure to provide them with safe working conditions would see South African ATMs not having money. Their memorandum was addressed to the ministries of police‚ justice and transport‚…

The otherwise invisible president of the ANC Youth League, Collen Maine, was resurrected this past week at a Winnie Madikizela-Mandela memorial service in Potchefstroom, North West province. He chose this sombre moment to literally throw the cat among the pigeons by revealing that premier of North West and ANC provincial chairperson, Supra Mahumapelo, introduced him to the notorious immigrant Gupta family. Maine stunned his audience, and the country followed soon as his confession entered the public space. The youth leader…

DEPENDING on which side of the fence you are on, Winnie-Madikizela Mandela, who has passed away in Johannesburg after a long-term illness, was a unifier-cum- liberation icon, if not one of the most divisive figures of her time. There has been an outpour of grief from around the world after the former wife of the first democratically elected president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, breathed her last at the Milpark hospital, aged 81. Eulogies have hailed the deceased as the…