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Polokwane Library Gardens: A Legacy at Risk?
Polokwane Library Gardens: A Legacy at Risk? This article originally published with images at https://buymeacoffee.com/theprodigyrsa/polokwane-library-gardens-a-legacy-risk The Library Gardens, surrounded by Hans van Rensburg, Jorissen, Schoeman, and Grobler Streets in Polokwane, stands as a cultural and historical hub, home to the city’s central library and The Polokwane Art Museum. As a child, I cherished visits here—renting […]
Murder as a message: When assassins set the local government agenda
Let’s not tiptoe around it — local government in South Africa has become a killing field. In the past five years alone, 37 municipal officials and 59 councillors have been murdered across the country, according to official data compiled by ProtectionWeb, released in January 2025. These statistics are not merely numbers; they represent a deeply […]
SARS Is Coming for You — Here’s How to Stop Them Legally
SARS Is Coming for You — Here’s How to Stop Them Legally Whether you are in South Africa or living abroad, if you or your company owe SARS taxes or have outstanding returns, SARS will be looking for you soon — if they have not found you already. Why You Are in the Crosshairs When […]
Exclusive: Trump administration weighing refugee cap of 40,000 with focus on white South Africans
WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is discussing a refugee admissions cap of around 40,000 for the coming year with a majority allocated to white South Africans, according to two U.S. officials briefed on the matter and an internal refugee program email, reflecting a major shift in the U.S. approach to […]
R2.7 million pain for businesses that don’t get their BEE affairs in order
Businesses in South Africa are being warned to urgently get their Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and Employment Equity (EE) affairs in order. They have also been reminded that failure to comply with new legal requirements could result in fines of up to R2.7 million, or 10% of their annual turnover. This is the message […]
The politics of misdiagnosis of increasing long term-unemployment
South Africa has a big backlog of job seekers on two fronts. Seventy-six comma six percent (76,6%) of the unemployed 8.4 million people are long-term unemployed or are almost permanent job seekers. T The second part of this back log is that the discouraged work seekers also have been increasing since 2009, they are now […]
South Africa must end BEE and expropriation
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen laid out a six-point plan to reform and “turbocharge” South Africa’s economy, which hinges on ending fundamental and “destructive” legislation like the Expropriation Act and Employment Equity Act. According to Steenhuisen, South Africa’s economy has been hamstrung by decades of mismanagement by the African National Congress (ANC), which, until […]
’49 car guards landed in America’: Mbalula ridicules white ‘refugees’ in US
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula poked at white ‘refugees’ who left South Africa for the United States of America, calling them ‘car guards’. Mbalula espoused the views after the ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting on Wednesday. “Donald Trump called for whites here, gave them special status in America. Forty-nine car guards arrived in the US,” […]