Pastor in citizen’s arrest row: Kimberley – Crocodile farmer, televangelist and drug rehabilitation owner, Pastor Rooies Strauss intends opening charges against Premier Sylvia Lucas on Friday, after making a citizen’s arrest when he found a group of people stripping vacant school buildings in Karos village near Upington. The incident took place on May 6, when Strauss took cellphone footage of the suspects implicating the premier in giving them permission to take the bricks, zinc sheeting, roofing, scaffolding and other building materials from the abandoned buildings. Strauss said that his farm, a few kilometres outside of Upington, was situated next to the school buildings. “The buildings are state property and could be…
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Rand stable for now, but could be affected by new Cabinet – economist: The rand has been hovering at the R14.30 to the US dollar over the past two days. ……
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Big three parties express mixed feelings on election results: The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) says it hopes to be done tallying all the votes by Saturday. ……
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Voting irregularities meant to suppress support base, claim some smaller parties: Leaders of the small political parties who intend to contest the legitimacy of this year’s provincial and national elections said they would lodge their legal case against the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) on Friday morning. ……
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Shivambu: Parties that haven’t performed well only have themselves to blame: The EFF’s deputy president Floyd Shivambu said parties that have not performed well only have themselves to blame. ……
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WC to remain a DA-led province, ANC is ‘disappointed’: In this year’s provincial election, early indications are that the ANC will only reach 29%. ……
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Zondo commission hears how emergency procedures used for big tenders: Transnet executive Peter Volmink told the commission that in some cases certain bidders were given the green light for big tenders without meeting the required criteria. ……
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Hawks nab prosecutor for allegedly asking R1 500 to make case ‘go away’: The Hawks’ Serious Corruption Investigation team on Thursday arrested a 45-year-old Seshego district court prosecutor for alleged corruption, extortion and defeating the ends of justice. ……
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Tense Wait for KZN Politicians As Results Dribble in: KwaZulu-Natal has traditionally been slow to return election results and the 2019 polls have proved no exception. With less than half of voting stations reporting by Thursday night, it made for a long and anxious wait for the small political parties gathered at KwaZulu-Natal’s IEC results centre. While it looked likely that the ANC would retain control of the province, the question of which party would take up the official opposition mantle was still far from settled. ……
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Battleground Gauteng – ANC Holds On By a Razor-Thin Margin As Count Continues: With half the votes in Gauteng counted on Thursday night, opposition parties were still hopeful the ANC might fall under 50%, but the ruling party looked like it might just scrape over the line to keep its majority in the country’s economic heartland. ……
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