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A shift in thinking is needed to counter South Africa’s startling rise in poverty

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South Africa urgently needs new policy ideas to reverse the alarming increase in poverty among its population. New figures reveal an increase of three million South Africans living in poverty over the last five years. More than half (55%) of the population lives on less than R1,138 (USD$107) a month, up from 53% in 2011…
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What Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma stands for: “Return our land to the people”

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Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is touring KwaZulu-Natal promoting her platform of radical economic transformation. She spoke this week in Harding and Newcastle, but is proving hard to pin down face to face. The crowd packed into the Osizweni Community Hall is oblivious to the bitter Tuesday night cold as ANC presidential hopeful Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma wraps up..
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SASSA IRREGULAR EXPENDITURE GROWS TO R1.4 BILLION

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In Sassa’s latest financial statements tabled in Parliament on Friday, the Auditor General says the agency did not take effective steps to prevent the irregular expenditure. The Auditor General has deemed the R43 million spent by the South Africa Social Security Agency (Sassa) on so-called work streams to have been irregular. In Sassa’s latest financial..
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National Treasury captured by Finance Minister Gigaba?

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Officials in the Treasury accused the finance minister, Malusi Gigaba, of hijacking the treasury by running a parallel administration. This he did by appointing about 20 confidants in his office. In this public attack on Gigaba, it is claimed that he decided to delay a forensic investigation into Eskom contracts with Tegata. The allegation also..
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South Africa has lost 946 323 working days due to strikes

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The Department of Labour’s Acting Director General, Vuyo Mafata, on Thursday released the Industrial Action Report for 2016, which shows that the South African labour market lost a total of 946 323 working days as a result of 122 work stoppages. This, according to the report, represents a 4.7% increase in working days lost in..
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Zwelithini ‘not paid what he deserves’ as a king – You got to be joking

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IS HE WORTH IT? King Goodwill Zwelithini’s family has grown over the years, and with it the amount the taxpayer continues to fork out to fund it Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has lashed out at the provincial government‚ accusing them of failing to pay him what he deserves. The monarch was speaking at a King..
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What is the ANC learning from the private sector

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Within the past few days, former president Kgalema Motlanthe said it would be good if the ANC was voted out of office (good for the ANC, that is), the outspoken MP Makhosi Khoza resigned from Parliament and from the ANC, and the Bank of Baroda won a court case to allow it to stop being..
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Makhosi Khoza leaves ANC to join anti-corruption organisation

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Makhozi Khoza has just announced that she is revoking her ANC membership to join the “the new anti-corruption movement of society and faith-based organisations”. Khoza made the announcement at a press briefing on Thursday at Lilliesleaf, Johannesburg. In a long, emotional speech she said that the ANC had become filled with corrupt leaders. “I have..
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As the ANC crumbles, it’s time to choose

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The majority of South Africans, especially black people, are seriously disillusioned. They believe they have been abandoned at sea by their trusted captain. The problem is that black people had bought into the propaganda that the ANC was ordained to rule “until Jesus Christ comes back”. It is now more than clear to all thinking..
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Can we believe this: ‘I didn’t conspire with Zuma’ – Mkhwebane

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Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has denied conspiring with the presidency and State Security Agency‚ saying her office remains independent. In papers filed in the High Court in Pretoria‚ the Reserve Bank accused Mkhwebane of meeting with President Jacob Zuma’s office and the State Security Agency before releasing her report on missing apartheid funds. The report..
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