Taxpayers take World Cup pain
07 Jun 2010 4 Comments
“The direct cost to the taxpayer exceeds R40-billion – higher than the R33.1-billion minister of finance Pravin Gordhan said had been spent by the government in his February budget. Municipalities and provinces have dipped into their pockets for the difference.”
Cape Town bullied by Blatter, Mbeki
30 Apr 2010 0 Comments
Zille publicly complained that the decision in favour of Green Point was taken without “costings and sums … I really think that we’re going into Green Point because Sepp Blatter says: ‘I like Green Point’, not because it’s the best thing for South Africans.”
13 Aug 2010
Home Affairs staff question colleagues’ stay at hotels
Several angry KwaZulu-Natal Department of Home Affairs staff want to know why their bosses put colleagues up in posh Durban hotels even though they live in the city.
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Carbon-tax grab is arbitrary, dangerous and inflationary
The government claims this is an environmental measure aimed at reducing emissions and protecting the environment.
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Apartheid kingships to be abolished
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma has accepted a recommendation by a traditional leadership commission that SA lose six kingships
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