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- September 20, 2020
Radio broadcasters spend over a million rand per month on diesel to run backup power generators, according to the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB). It says rolling blackouts adversely affect their signal distributions. NAB emphasised that the cost implications of rolling blackouts for the broadcasting industry cannot easily be transferred to customers. Deputy chairperson Nick
READ MOREInvestigative journalist Ruth Hopkins says most South African prison guards are overworked and underpaid. She says this makes them open to corruption including accepting bribes. This is in light of the Correctional Services Department’s confirmation that the so-called Facebook rapist, Thabo Bester, escaped from its Mangaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein in May last year. Police and
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READ MORENon-profit organisation, the TEARS Foundation, has welcomed the life sentence handed down to the 33-year-old man found guilty of the rape of a 13-year-old girl from Marianhill west of Durban. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) says the perpetrator was a tenant at the girl’s home where he raped her over four years from the age
READ MOREPolice in Butterworth in the Eastern Cape have fired rubber bullets on protesting Butterworth residents as they headed towards the town. The protesters are threatening to shut down the rural town calling for the immediate release of their leaders who were arrested. Four members of the forum were arrested for the alleged killing of two
READ MOREThree people have been shot and killed in Umlazi south of Durban. It is believed that the men were involved in an argument when shots were fired. KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson, Robert Netshuinda explains: “Police in Umlazi are investigating three counts of murder after three men aged 33, 45 and 65 years old were found dead
READ MORE“The advantage is that stokvel members have an all-encompassing investing strategy that meets their demands in the short and long term rather than being overly involved in the short-term investments,” Nkosi said. Product head for the bank’s wealth and investment solutions Samukelo Zwane said the “risk of being unduly focused on one asset class is
Estate manager laying huge legal bill at the door of someone already struggling to settle his levies Whitfields Property Solutions, a company that manages estates, has gone ahead to make a court application for the sale of Bongani Ngono’s two-bedroom house over failure to pay levies and collection fees amounting to R240,500. Ngono found a letter
Unlike debt counselling, insolvency is a court process that involves the applicant’s lawyer. “In SA it’s normally companies who go the insolvency route because you need a lawyer to represent you in court. Its common for Black people to go the debt counseling route and only those with a significant amount of money will hire
“Their lawyers’ fees were added to my debt and now I owe over R240,000 and most of it is from legal fees. Whenever I enquire about the legal fees, I would not get a clear answer, even on their statements,” said Ngono. In July last year, Ngono owed R164,112.20 and by December it had ballooned