An alarming number of people continue to be arrested for drug trafficking in South Africa, despite the recent severe Chinese sanction, where a South African woman was executed for her alleged role as a drug mule in Beijing. The South African Police Service (SAPS) on Thursday revealed that in 2011 in Cape Town International Airport [...]
Independent weather soothsayers will allegedly be given a jail sentence under a new law amendment to be passed in the Republic of South Africa. This was revealed by Gareth Morgan, spokesperson for the Democratic Alliance (DA) environmental faculty. He claims that the current government wishes to amend the South African Weather Service Law in an [...]
It is an acceptable joke that people are dying to get into cemeteries, but it is no joke that just recently the late entry into a local university led to a stampede of students and caused the death of a person. Police are still investigating the cause that led to a stampede ate the University [...]
An increasing number of beaches along the South African coastline are claimed to be unsafe – from uncontrolled dogs. South African law enforcement and special services on Thursday warned that they will take stricter measures against dog owners walking their canines on the nation’s so-called ‘blue flag’ beaches. Cape Town Assistant Police Chief Neil Arendse [...]
The Republic of South Africa on Sunday (June 12, 2011) announced the establishment of a brand new, African continental Free Trade Area (FTA). The country’s 69-year-old Zulu president Jacob Zuma told reporters that the new trading bloc would be the biggest ever from Cape-to-Cairo (a term first coined by British colonialist Cecil John Rhodes in [...]
The rich have grown richer and the poorer are even more poor, according to an independent survey carried out by South African street vendors to review one year after the 2010 South African Football World Cup, to which FIFA had all rights of sales and merchandise. Mpho Tshabalala, a street Vendor in Johannesburg Central Business District (CBD) says he had had high hopes of making some real money and help secure a prosperous a future for his family, via the football spectacle.
Through a translator the 55-year-old Tswana man said, “I have helped my three kids through high school and now they all want to go to college, but I can’t afford it. Local council members promised that we will be able to make some real money during the football spectacle, but then withdrew their promises saying that FIFA has all the rights to sales in the vicinity of the stadiums and other football related merchandise.”
While the black government of South Africa is looking for a single insignia to unite all sports under one umbrella it is in fact causing a greater divide in the population, where Rugby players and supporters are allegedly boycotting the purchases of the overpriced (recomended retail price of ZAR 600!! -when the minimum monthly wage [...]
The minister of police, national commissioner and divisional commissioner of crime intelligence of the Republic of South Africa have reportedly convinced the nation’s high court late Friday (29 Oct 2010) to stop the Sunday Independent newspaper from publishing information about dodgy appointments within the crime intelligence division, the periodical announced in a statement late Saturday [...]
The Republic of South Africa was represented by President Jacob Zuma, during the SA-EU Summit in Brussels on Sept 28, 2010. The summit reportedly met for the first time under the auspices of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty. South Africa and the EU signed an agreement called the Primary Education Sector Policy Support Program, allegedly the [...]
The world’s biggest retailer is reportedly says it is not convinced about the latest threat from trade unions during its acquisition attempt in the Republic of South Africa. Wal-Mart Stores Inc is said to have offered some ZAR 30-bil (about USD 4.5-bil) for South Africa’s wholesaler group Massmart Holdings Ltd, which is registered on the [...]
At least 11 people have been arrested on charges of illegal rhino hunting in South Africa, police in Pretoria confirmed to Budapest Report. They added that most of the alleged rhino-poaching syndicate members have been released on bail and will have to appear in court in April 2011. Ironically rhino poaching has become the number [...]
South African Communist Party (SACP) General Secretary Blade Nzimande claims that the planned new Media Appeals Tribunal is not aimed at curbing media freedom. He told a meeting of the Cape Town Press Club that the African National Congress (ANC) would not tell journalists how and what to write. “All we want is a fair, [...]
Former South African President Thabo Bheki, has said that African leaders who hang on to power are often the cause of wars on the continent. He said that although the continent has the means to rid itself of such tyrants, the African Union lacks the money to implement these actions. Bheki did not directly point [...]
After Florida and France, South Africa is expecting to open the world’s third Disney theme park in its North-eastern province of Mpumalanga, officials of the National Tourism Agency said. The planned Disney World investment is expected to cost a whopping ZAR 25 billion. Experts claim that South Africa was on the top of Disney’s wish [...]
One of the biggest causes of human deaths in Southern Africa is cause by attacks from hippopotamus, experts said. But this time the hippo was at the other end of the stick, when it was allegedly killed by an oncoming train near Beira in Mozambique. Witnesses claim that the line had not been used for [...]
The corrupt police service of South Africa’s most crime infested Gauteng Province (also dubbed Gangster’s Paradise) has received a new police commissioner, who vows to be more stringent with even the smallest crimes. Police Commissioner Mzwandile Petros said at an anti-crime summit (packed with delegates from community policing forums, NGOs and members of public) that [...]
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has announced they have finally paid the full amount to all police officers who worked overtime during the June-July soccer spectacle. Reportedly some 44,000 officers were deployed to work overtime during the tournament, but were not paid by SAPS for these services until just recently. It was not mentioned [...]
The Khoisan population of the Republic of South Africa (RSA) are demanding their own homeland with their own government and military, representatives told Budapest Report Wednesday. They added that the Khoisan people have already established their own defense force, despite the fact that RSA does not recognise their autonomy as yet. The indigenous San people [...]
The taxi driver of a mini-bus taxi has appeared in a South African court where he faces charges of culpable homocide. The driver a week ago crossed the solid line of a railway crossing, skipping the security booms at a level crossing, before his mini-bus was hit by an oncoming train. Reports said that 10 [...]
South African white nonagenarian Anna de Jager, the 92-year-old Orange Free State great-grandmother, will be awarded her doctorate degree within weeks. This wouldn’t be such a news item if it weren’t for the fact that she started her studies some 40 years earlier. She claims that she had tried to complete her studies several times [...]
Women have been heavily neglected in the Republic of South Africa, especially black public servants, like nurses, teachers and essential service workers. Some 1.3 million protesters, mostly underpaid and overworked women public workers, downed tools to march on the parliament of South Africa on Tuesday (Aug 11, 2010) demanding higher salaries and housing benefits. Hundreds [...]
Dr. Mamphela Ramphele is reportedly the first South African managing director of the World Bank. She allegedly made a name for herself after obtaining a medical degree in 1972 during the height of Apartheid, when she was also an anti-Apartheid activist and has been voted one of the top 100 Great South African, receiving the [...]
In a global economy knowledge is the new international currency that businesses can’t afford to miss out on, according to experts at Discovery Invest, an authorized life investment services company, which has invited Rudy Giuliani, the charismatic leader and former Mayor of New York City as one of its key-note speakers at its leadership summit. [...]
South African Police have arrested three suspects in connection to the recent brutal murder of an entire family, involving a 28-year-old mother and her two daughters (8 months and 3 years old). The business woman was already a widow as her husband had allegedly been murdered some months earlier. Police believe that the motive could [...]
Unconfirmed sources say that the Republic of South Africa is to construct new state-of-the-art nuclear power stations (similar to that of its 1,800 MW Koeberg plant – pictured), based on, and involving, Russian and Chinese expertise and technologies. This is perhaps one of the reasons South African president Jacob Zuma and his 11 ministers, accompanies [...]
Former Interpol head and National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, Jacob (Jackie) Sello Selebi (60,) has been sentenced to 15 years prison for charges of corruption on Tuesday (Aug 3, 2010). Presiding Judge Meyer Joffe called Selebi a “ stranger to truth, ” an “ unreliable witness ” and an “ embarrassment to [...]
The Lipizaner stud farm and Spanish riding school at Kyalami, in the Republic of South Africa this year celebrates the 60th anniversary, experts said. The breed is the oldest man-bred horse in the world, dating back to the Carthaginian empire. It is believed that Hannibal rode on a Lipizzaner. However the breed as we know [...]
Police in Zimbabwe have reportedly received an increasing number of reports that dogs have gone missing in various neighborhoods in and around the capital city Harare. It is believed that the increasing number of Chinese immigrants are buying up young dogs for their traditional cuisine. At the same time high demand has increased the black [...]
After a three day trial a South African judge at the Bloemfontein Magistrates Court has promptly sentenced four white male ex-university students (RC Malherbe, Danie Grobler, Johnny Roberts and Schalk van der Merwe- known as the ” Reitz-4 “, pictured) to a suspended 12 months jail sentence and the equivalent of about USD 3,000 for [...]
South Africa’s Stellenbosch University has developed a revolutionary idea that it wishes to now commercially market. Researchers have discovered how various non-fiber carbon placed into a simple tea filter bag (pictured) that fits into the palm of a hand is capable of purifying 1 liter of heavily polluted water, so that it can instantly be [...]
South Africa has the highest unemployment rate on the continent and experts say that nothing is expected to change before the end of the year in this regard. Reports said that some 25.3% of the working population are unemployed. Of the 49 million people living in the rainbow nation, only 12.7 million have jobs. Economists [...]
Thousands of South African school children allegedly stayed at home after parents heard the early morning news that 18 month old Panjo, the tiger had escaped from its owner’s one-tone pick up truck (commonly referred to as a bakkie, by the locals) while it was being taken to the local veterinarian for its annual shots. [...]
The South African Education Ministry has agreed to permit worm-eating among school children in certain parts of the country, especially the Vhembe region of its Limpopo province. Schools in the impoverished regions of Limpopo have asked for special permission to be allowed to feed their pupils the traditional food called Mashonza (the Mopane worm, Latin [...]
Government investigators have proclaimed that there are no persons responsible for the six deaths of new-born babies in a hospital in South Africa. However heath professionals are demanding an explanation as to why and how the infants were allowed to die under alleged sterile-clean hospitals. Initially hospital staff complained that there was a lack of [...]
South African radio reports show that merely less than 4% of all women’s rape cases saw perpetrators being convicted. This disturbing factor has raised eyebrows amid international women organisations, who have pledged to take immediate action and lobby for more stringent laws and regulations to be introduced, to not allow perpetrators to be acquitted. Reports [...]
South African professional golfer, Louis Oosthuizen (27), has dedicated his win of the classic British Open on Sunday (July 18, 2010) to the world’s best known icon, Nelson Mandela. He stunned everyone at St. Andrews, considered the home of golf, winning by seven shots. It was his first major here and the last person to [...]
