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FOR MANY people, the name of Mrs. Mmabatho Mokoena-Zondi would not easily come to mind until this MK Party Whip was arrested on suspicion of defrauding members of her party working in Parliament in Cape Town this week.Mrs Mokoena-Zondi appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court where she will be charged with defrauding MKP employees of more than R200 000.However, the big question that many people may be wondering is who is this politician who has gotten into such trouble?Seeng Mmabatho Nthabiseng Mokoena-Zondi (46) has become a MKP Member of Parliament, taking over from Mr. Brian Molefe in February this…
John Steenhuisen (Photo: John Steenhuisen/Facebook) The FF Plus believes that John Steenhuisen’s removal as Minister of Agriculture did not come as a surprise. As far as the party is concerned, the situation surrounding foot and mouth has obviously become untenable. “The big question now is to what extent it will improve,” said Dr. Wynand Boshoff, FF Plus MP and the party’s chief spokesperson for agriculture, said on Wednesday about the news that Steenhuisen will be replaced by Willie Aucamp as minister of agriculture. The FF Plus appears to be optimistic about the new appointment. “Aucamp has a stronger background in…
There has been an uproar over the high number of young people who are not ashamed of the Youth Day celebrations in the country yesterday, which were celebrated by different political parties. On this day, which commemorates the event of June 16, 1976, when the youth rose up and fought against the teaching of the Afrikaans language in local schools, the youth were urged not to be complacent but to rise up and vote.At the national celebration held at Nasrec in Johannesburg, the chairman of the South African National Youth Development Agency, Dr. Sunshine Myende, told the president, Cyril Ramaphosa,…
Argieffoto (Foto: South African Tourism / Flickr via Wikimedia Commons) The Ekurhuleni Metro Council inflated its application for power tariffs for 2024/2025 by at least R13 billion by manipulating supporting information used in the application, say a group of industrialists. According to this group, the energy regulator, Nersa, apparently just let it slip through, without checking the figures. Even though this is Ekurhuleni’s third attempt to try to establish a legal rate for a period that has long passed, the application currently submitted to Nersa for a decision is so full of errors that Nersa will have to reject it…
Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, has announced that a memorandum of understanding with the United States has been finalised and signed electronically by both sides.He added that the agreement has already gone into effect.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“The text of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding was finalised with the signatures of the presidents,” Baghaei told the news agency IRNA. “Now it is time to test the implementation of the agreement.”Wednesday’s statement appears to confirm that the US and Iran have agreed to suspend military operations, paving the way for further negotiations.Given that both sides…
LEAVE many people speechless about the incidents of actor Sdumo Mtshali, who is in the news these days for the incidents he did in the new Netflix show called The Polygamistwhere he plays the role of Jonas Gomora.This play, based on Sue Nyathi’s book The Polygamist 2012, made by The Stained Glass Production company, tells the story of a businessman who has a moral problem, who is unfaithful to his wife – he kills her.After watching this show with 22 episodes that came out on June 12, people expressed their different opinions about it, some commented, they commented before they…
(Photo: Christine Oelofse) The office of Peace Mabe, the Deputy Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture, has confirmed that her X account has been hijacked and that unknown individuals are currently in control of the platform. According to the office, the deputy minister’s verified account, @DM_PeaceMabe, was illegally obtained and is being used to publish unauthorized content falsely attributed to her. The hijacked account was apparently used to spread misleading, divisive and inflammatory messages, including comments about South Africa’s national football structures and those involved in this sport. She says that none of the content currently appearing on the account…
He is grateful for the opportunity given to him by the playwright, who has almost disappeared from the field of producing television shows, Mpilonhle Khumalo from Mbongolwane, Showe, who these days seems to be acting in a role that is boring to many in a game called At Father’s.Mpilonhle, who is playing the role of Mandla in the show, says that although people will see him a lot in this one, he is not an imafikizolo.He said that he has worked a lot with the likes of Duma Ndlovu in theater plays and others Payer: The Curse, Don’t sink, Generations,…
Archive photo. (Photo: Christine Oelofse/Maroela Media) Two police officers in Limpopo were found guilty and sentenced, after they were caught trying to remove illegal cigarettes from a police evidence room. Sgt. Maenetja Maropeng Ednah (47) and const. Kgatla Lehlogonolo Lazarus (39), both attached to the Modjadjiskloof police station, pleaded guilty in the regional court in Tzaneen on 10 June to charges of burglary with intent to steal and attempted theft, as well as malicious damage to property. The court treated the two charges as one for sentencing purposes and sentenced each to four years imprisonment, which was suspended for five…
IMOTO: SUZUKI JIMNYI was chatting with another guy during our morning run and the topic of cars came up.During the speech, he revealed that he has a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado that he bought for his size, but he has never taken it off the tarmac and driven it into the mountains.This made me realize that there may be many people who buy qawantaba not because they want to go anywhere but because of love.Suzuki Jimny is one of those cars that some people buy because they like it. A lot of people I always meet are clean and you…