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Four individuals shot in fight outside Umhlanga club

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Four people were shot in an altercation outside a club in Umhlanga north of Durban in the early hours of Saturday.  Four individuals, one of them a security officer, were shot amid a fight outside a club in Umhlanga north of Durban in the early morning of Saturday, paramedics said.  Netcare 911 representative Shawn Herbst said the paramedics had reacted to reports of a shooting on Palm Boulevard in Umhlanga at around 3am on Saturday. "Reports from the scene indicate that three members of the public and a security officer were shot during an altercation outside a club. "The patients were treated on scene before being transported to hospital for further treatment," Herbst said. "Circumstances leading up to the shooting will be investigated by the SAPS who were on scene," he added. In a different event, a man mentioned to be around 30 years of age was shot dead on Reggie Hadebe Road, France Location close Pietermaritzburg i

Realistic View Of SA Government And Politics

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SONA 2019: A Tablet For Every Student Inside 6 Years, Yet 4 000 Schools Still Without Toilets President Cyril Ramaphosa says he needs a tablet gadget for each school kid inside six years, yet kids in 4 000 schools the nation over still use pit toilets.  Ramaphosa spread out his administration's arrangements for the year in his 2019 State of the Nation Address on Thursday, addressing his desire for the fundamental instruction segment.  He said in excess of 700 000 youngsters had gotten to early childhood education in the last budgetary year, a sign that government had built up a firm establishment for a far reaching early youth advancement program.  Enhancing appreciation, in this manner, was fundamental in propelling the essential education division, beginning from establishment stage. "Over the next six years, we will provide every school child in South Africa with digital workbooks and textbooks on a tablet device," Ramaphosa said.

BREAKING:Alleged Dros Rapist Pronounced Fit To Stand Trial

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Affirmed Dros Rapist Declared Sane And Fit To Stand Trial The 22-year-old man blamed for assaulting a seven-year-old young lady in the restroom of a Dros restaurant in Pretoria has been discovered fit to stand trial.  This was uncovered in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court on Friday, after the blamed went through a month in Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital, experiencing broad assessment.  The State said they acquired a mental report just as a mental report by 3 psychiatric and a therapist and that the accused can stand trial.  The accused, who can't be named until he has argued the charges, was assessed by a group of four specialists, including therapists and a clinical analyst, according to a court request made in 2018.  The perception occurred at a government mental institution. The assessment decided the psychological limit of the charged and whether he can be considered responsible.  Amid a past court appearance the charged's legal adv

Khelobedu To Be Recognized as 12th Official Language

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Request by Modjadji Royal Council To Perceive Khelobedu As Twelfth Official Dialect The dialect is believed to be spoken by more than 1 million individuals. The Modjadji Royal Family and Council, known for their supposed heavenly rain-making powers, have begged Limpopo Premier Stan Mathabatha and President Cyril Ramaphosa to make Khelobedu the twelfth official dialect in South Africa. Director for the board John Malatji said amid the residency of Nelson Mandela numerous advances were made in enhancing the family and their faction's status. Be that as it may, Malatji said the family, which leads more than 129 communities with demographics of more than 1.1 million people, needs one additionally thing: "Mandela has allowed all we requested, aside from the Khelobedu dialect to be made the twelfth official dialect." Malatji said this request originated from the reality the community's kids continually get the short end of the stick due to the non-official status

A Rare Picture Of Dudu Myeni, Jacob Zuma And Gavin Watson

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Facebookers See The Photograph As Proof That It Has Uncovered The Previous SAA Chair As a Liar, However It May Not Be So Basic. A picture, supposedly from 2015 when then SA director Dudu Myeni and afterward president Jacob Zuma met with Bosasa officials, has caused a Stir on social media. User Vikash Mathura uploaded the photograph on Monday evening asserting that it put into inquiry Myeni's defence that she couldn't have been paid off by Bosasa CEO Gavin Watson since she had purportedly never at any point met him. Dudu Myeni (far left) with Jacob Zuma and Bosasa executives on a visit to one of their plants. Picture: Facebook At the state capture commission on Monday, previous Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi dropped the stunner that Watson had supposedly dedicated to paying Myeni R300,000 in cash money in a Louis Vuitton purse he conveyed himself. He referenced that it was comprehended that these regularly scheduled payments would purportedly buy favor

State Capture: Zuma Was A ' Pet ' To Bosasa Boss

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Bosasa CEO Gavin Watson Frequently Guided Previous President Jacob Zuma and Routinely Had Breakfast With His Wives, The State Capture Inquiry Heard On Thursday. Former Bosasa chief operating officer Angelo Agrizzi told deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo that Watson reliably visited Zuma. Gavin Watson with then president Jacob Zuma on a visit to the company's Krugersdorp headquarters in April 2015. Picture: Twitter "If I may just add, he had the type of relationship with the president… where he could tell the president what to do. It was frequent. "He would visit the president quite regularly and I remember.... he told me what a mess [Nkandla] was in terms of the building and that it shouldn't have cost R250m (R246m)," said Agrizzi. The gatherings with Zuma were because of previous National Prosecuting Authority heavyweight Nomgcobo Jiba neglecting to suppress a case investigating Bosasa's dodgy dealings. Agrizzi affirmed that at a gathering at

NPA Halt Corruption Charges Against Duduzane Zuma

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Charges Against Duduzane Zuma Have Been Temporarily Pulled Back. Defilement accusations against Duduzane Zuma were stopped in the Johannesburg Specialized Commercial Crime Court on Thursday to enable a key witness to get done with giving testimony at the Zondo commission of Inquiry into state capture.  "The reason this matter is provisionally withdrawn is to allow one of our key witnesses to conclude leading evidence at the state capture inquiry and it has also been indicated that such a witness might be cross-examined by Mr Zuma," National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson Phindi Mjonondwane Aldo said on Thursday. Duduzane Zuma, child of previous president Jacob Zuma, was accused in July 2018 of corruption, alternatively conspiracy to commit corruption, identifying with an asserted R600m pay off offer made to previous deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas in 2015 by a Gupta sibling in his essence.  The NPA denied that it had been not well a

Seven Chopping Allegations Made By Angelo Agrizzi About Nomvula Mokonyane

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Environmental affairs minister Nomvula Mokonyane was heavily implicated in Angelo Agrizzi's state capture testimony at the Zondo commission. Mokonyane has since written a letter to the commission to object to the fact that she was not notified about the allegations. Former Bosasa chief operating officer Angelo Agrizzi took the witness stand again on Monday to testify before the state capture commission.  Agrizzi has caused a stir since he began testifying last week, and his testimony on Monday was no different.  Environmental affairs minister Nomvula Mokonyane dominated news headlines as allegations against her piled up. Mokonyane has written a letter to the commission to object to the fact that she was not notified about the allegations.  Mokonyane's spokesperson, Mlimandlela Ndamase, said the allegations were "preposterous", SowetanLIVE reported. 1. 'Subsidizing' of ANC rally in Gauteng  As per Agrizzi, Bosasa forked out extreme

HOW BOSASA COLLUDED WITH ANC DELEGATES

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How Bosasa paid for ANC rallies, Zuma's birthday cake: Angelo Agrizzi Previous Bosasa official Angelo Agrizzi has definite how the organization purportedly took care of everything for ANC mobilizes in Gauteng – at the request of natural issues serve Nomvula Mokonyane.  Affirming at the state catch request on Monday, Agrizzi said the organization paid for a large group of ANC occasions, including the Siyanqoba energizes which are held before races. He claimed the solicitations were made by Mokonyane through Bosasa's supervisor, Gavin Watson. “There were rallies where we would have to cater for 40,000 or 50,000 people... We would get ridiculous requests saying we would need to cater for supporters - ten thousand at a time,” Agrizzi said.   He could not recall an exact number, but he said Bosasa paid for at least a dozen ANC events, including catering and cakes. Agrizzi said he would receive “ridiculous requests” from Mokonyane to cater for birthday

POLICE UNION DENY ANGELO AGRIZZI ALLEGATIONS

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Bosasa allegations: Sbu who? That wasn't our guy who met Agrizzi, says police union The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) has rejected cases by previous Bosasa head working officer Angelo Agrizzi that a general secretary of the association, known as "Sbu", was guaranteed R1m as far as concerns him in dodgy arrangements.  "In his testimony, Mr Agrizzi [at the Zondo commission] stated that there was in 2007 a meeting held which included the presence of a person by the name Sbu, who is purportedly said to have been the general secretary of our union Popcru; a meeting during which details towards convincing the then newly appointed National Commissioner of the DCS [Department of Correctional Services] Vernie Petersen to be obedient and co-operative to Bosasa demands were discussed, with those to mediate this process being promised a sum of R1 million on a monthly basis," said Popcru spokesperson Richard Mamabolo. "We do not take