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70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ADOPTION OF THE FREEDOM CHARTER  @KASIBC_AFRICA  ONLINE EDITOR @KASIBC_AFRICA ANC VETERANS LEAGUE WILL HOST AN INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE TO COMMEMORATE THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ADOPTION OF THE FREEDOM CHARTER.  The ANC Veterans League invites colleagues of the media to attend the opening plenary session of an Intergenerational Dialogue to Commemorate the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Freedom Charter.  The objectives of the dialogue are to bring the leadership of the Veterans League and Youth formations together to:   ● Build better understanding, appreciation and respect of the views of veterans and young people;  ● Increase understanding of the clauses of the Freedom Charter and their ongoing relevance today; and;  ● Review how to achieve the vision and clauses of the Freedom Charter. The dialogue will be attended by NEC members of the ANC Veterans League, ANC Youth League, COSAS, SASCO and the ANC Women’s Le...

ARREST OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL DUMISANI KHUMALO @KASIBC_AFRICA ONLINE EDITOR @KKASIBC_AFRIA The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is concerned about the arrest of Lieutenant General Dumisani Khumalo, the Head of South Africa’s Crime Intelligence Division, a development that once again exposes the deep rot within of South Africa’s law enforcement agencies. Lt. Khumalo’s arrest, reportedly linked to unlawful senior appointments within crime intelligence, is a scandal of national significance.  It comes at a time when crime intelligence is expected to lead in the fight against gender-based violence, cashin-transit heists, cross-border drug and sex trafficking, and the broader web of organised criminal networks that are tearing our communities apart. Instead, we are faced with the reality that the very head of this unit, appointed to restore credibility after years of dysfunction, is now in police custody, alongside senior officers including Brigadier Daniel Ncube, Brigadier Nozipho Madond...

PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA CABINET RESHUFFLE  @KASIBC_AFRICA ONLINE EDITOR @KASIBC_AFRICA On 25 June 2025, I removed Mr Andrew Whitfield from the position of Deputy Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition in terms of section 93 (1) of the Constitution. It is not common practice for the President of the Republic of South Africa to provide reasons either for the appointment or dismissal of Members of the Executive.  However, due to several unfortunate statements and outright distortions by a number of people, especially Mr John Steenhuisen and Mr Whitfield himself, it is necessary for me to make a public statement on the circumstances surrounding Mr Whitfield’s removal. Mr Whitfield was removed as a Deputy Minister because he undertook an international visit without the permission of the President. His travel to the United States was a clear violation of the rules and established practices governing the conduct of Members of the Executive. This requirement is known to all Min...

RUMBLE IN THE GNU JUNGLE  ANC VERSUS DA @KASIBC_AFRICA ONLINE EDITOR @KASIBC_AFRICA Madam Speaker, Yesterday, President Cyril Ramaphosa put South Africa’s future at stake. Shortly before Cabinet met yesterday, he informed me that he intends to remove Andrew Whitfield as Deputy Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition. I requested twenty-four hours to speak to Whitfield and my party. However, before I could even do so, just three hours later, Whitfield received a letter informing him of his removal. The apparent reason for this sudden and ill-considered decision is that Whitfield did not obtain permission to travel abroad earlier this year. But the facts contradict even this flimsy reasoning. In fact, on 12 February, Whitfield had written to the President requesting permission to travel to the United States, as required by the Ministerial Handbook. Ten days later, he had still not received any response from the presidency, and departed on the trip. Whitfield subsequently wrote to...

70TH ANNIVERSARY FREEDOM CHARTER , KLIPTOWN 1955  @KASIBC_AFRICA  @KASIBC_AFRICA ONLINE EDITOR The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) marks the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Freedom Charter with a recommitment to the struggle for true liberation.  On this day, we honour those who gathered in Kliptown in 1955 and proclaimed boldly that "The People Shall Govern!"   The Freedom Charter was the result of a mass democratic process, coordinated by the Congress of the People, which included the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), the Coloured People's Congress (CPC), and the Congress of Democrats (COD). Over many months in 1955, ordinary South Africans from townships, villages, and workplaces submitted demands for the kind of South Africa they dreamed of.   These voices were collected and consolidated into the Charter, which was formally adopted on 26 June 1955 in Kliptown, Soweto, during a mass assembly of more t...

BOARD OF THE IDC ( INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ) @KASIBC_AFRICA   @KASIBC_AFRICA ONLINE EDITOR The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) rejects the appointment of African National Congress (ANC) loyalists to the board of the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), in a clear case of patronage.  The most recent appointments, including Ayanda Dlodlo, Dr Nomusa Dube-Ncube, and Dr Sydney Mufamadi, represent a continuation of a corrupt practice in which key state institutions are hijacked to reward political loyalty, not competence.  The IDC is a critical public finance institution, established to promote industrial development and economic transformation. Its mandate is to stimulate job creation, promote black industrialists, support localisation, and build inclusive economic growth. It is funded by public money and exists to serve the people, not the political elite.  However, the ANC has repeatedly used the IDC and similar state-owned institutions as vehicles of...

MAKE KASI GREAT  ORBIT COLLEGE ON HISTORIC PROMOTION TO THE BETWAY PREMIERSHIP @KASIBC_AFRICA ONLINE EDITOR @KASIBC_AFRICA The Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Nobuhle Nkabane, congratulates Orbit College Football Club on their historic promotion to the Betway Premiership following their 1-0 victory over Cape Town City FC at Olympia Stadium in Rustenburg on Wednesday, 25 June 2025.  This outstanding achievement by Orbit College marks a significant milestone not only in South African football but in the landscape of higher education, particularly within the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector. As a public TVET college, Orbit College’s success highlights the immense potential and holistic development within the Post-School Education and Training (PSET) system.  In light of this historic feat, the Minister reiterates the department's strong encouragement for all students to actively participate in the College Sport Arts and Culture Sout...

SCOPA LAUNCH INQUIRY INTO RAF FINANCIAL MATTERS @KASIBC_AFRICA ONLINE EDITOR @KASIBC_AFRICA  The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) has today resolved to launch a full committee inquiry into allegations of maladministration, financial mismanagement, wasteful and reckless expenditure, and related financial misconduct at the Road Accident Fund (RAF).   This decision follows months of repeated attempts by the committee to obtain truthful, complete information from the RAF Board and executive management, to little avail. The committee cannot perform its work effectively if state entities do not provide it with complete and truthful information, with adequate context and supporting information.   Some of the issues of concern for the committee include but are not limited to: •Failure to perform adequate background checks on senior management and executive appointments who nonetheless have access to and manage significant sums of public funds despite having a deeply ...

  MAKEKASIGREAT©®™ NATIONAL LOTTO TENDER WORTH BILLIONS @KASIBC_AFRICA  ONLINE EDITOR @KASIBC_AFRICA   COMMITTEE NOTES THE NATIONAL LOTTERY LICENCE AWARD PROCESS AND EXPLANATION ON THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST QUESTIONS     Parliament, Tuesday, 24 June 2025 – The Portfolio Committee on Trade, Industry and Competition has noted the explanation provided after concerns raised on the process surrounding the awarding of the fourth National Lottery Licence.    The committee today engaged the Executive led by the Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Mr Parks Tau, and the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) on the process of appointing a new National Lottery operator and the steps taken to ensure continued lottery operations.   This comes after the successful appointment of the fourth new National Lottery licensee, on 28 May 2025. The committee, as part of its oversight mandate, has been monitoring the process to ensure openness, transparency and...

  MAKEKASIGREAT©®™ WORLD BANK US$1.5BILLION LOAN @KASIBC_AFRICA ONLINE EDITOR @KASIBC_AFRICA The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) notes, with serious concern, the announcement by the National Treasury that South Africa has signed a loan agreement to the amount of US$1.5 billion with the World Bank for so-called infrastructure modernisation and development.  The EFF reiterates its long-held position that institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) are instruments of neoliberalism and neocolonialism, used by Western imperialist powers to perpetuate the underdevelopment of the global South, and Africa in particular.  These institutions mask their agenda through development rhetoric, while attaching loan conditions that undermine sovereignty, impose austerity, and erode the developmental state. The National Treasury, acting as a conduit for this imperial agenda, often conceals these conditions or frames them as mere administrative reforms, when in...

BREAD PRICES HIKE  @KASIBC_AFRICA ONLINE EDITOR The DA is proud to recognise a victory by Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen, which will stop the price of bread from going up. Minister Steenhuisen has identified and terminated an inherited arrangement where a supplier had been authorized to conduct quality inspections of breads and grains at retailers across the country. The DA notes that national retailers have confirmed that Minister Steenhuisen’s actions will stop a price hike on bread loaves. The contract that the DA Leader has terminated would have allowed a service provider to charge retailers for an unnecessary testing service. And retailers would have had to pass this extra charge on to South Africans buying their bread. In the Government of National Unity DA Ministers are implementing policy and regulations that can drive down the cost of living, and can also stop rising prices. The DA is engaged in fighting against the rising cost of living, in every way that we can...

MAKE KASI GREAT @KASIBC_AFRICA JULIUS MALEMA SPEAKS AT 10 FIGHTERS FUNERAL AFTER 16JUNE2025 YOUTH DAY EVENT  @KASIBC_AFRICA CIC JULIUS MMALEMA SPEECH :  Programme Director, Members of the Bereaved Families, Fighters, Comrades, and Fellow South Africans. We gather here today in collective grief.  We are here to lay to rest the young lives of our beloved children, brothers, sisters, and comrades: Sbongakonke Mathe (17) Ntombi Ndlovu (19) Lungani Sunday Mbatha (25) Phumlani Zulu (46) Thokozani Mashazi (29) Ayanda Khumalo (27) Qhwalisile Sibisi (44) Manqele Sboniso (23) Thuthukani Dube (26) Siyanda Twala (23)  These are not just names in a headline or numbers in a report. These were young people who had dreams.  They were full of life, full of promise, and full of the courage that defines the children of working-class and oppressed families, those who know struggle not from history books, but from daily survival. They died while in pursuit of life. They were travell...

SANDF ASSASSINATIONS SCANDAL MOORHOUSE REPORT  @KASIBC_AFRICA ONLINE EDITOR @KASIBC_AFRICA The DA demands the urgent release of the hidden Moorhouse Report.  Twelve SANDF members were arrested for a top investigator’s assassination. The report exposes rogue SANDF networks tied to torture, smuggling, and killings. The Democratic Alliance (DA) calls for the immediate release of the Moorhouse Report, which the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) continues to conceal from Parliament and the public. This follows the arrest of 12 SANDF members in connection with the 2023 assassination of Hawks investigator, Lieutenant Colonel Frans Mathipa. The arrests have intensified pressure for transparency, particularly regarding the report’s alleged findings on illegal SANDF activities. The Moorhouse Board of Inquiry was reportedly established after whistleblower Thulane Ndawo, a former Military Police officer, exposed illegal detentions, torture, and unauthorised operations in 2021. ...

DEATH OF TWO DAN RADEBE PRIMARY BY POSSIBLE DROWNING @KASIBC_AFRICA ONLINE EDITOR @KASIBC_AFRICA Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane is deeply saddened by the tragic passing of two Grade 5 boy learners from Dan Radebe Primary School in Duduza, Ekurhuleni.  The two learners, who were close friends and in the same class, are suspected to have drowned after their bodies were discovered in a water pond on Friday, 20 June 2025. It is alleged that the learners were reported missing on Thursday, 19 June 2025. Subsequently, their bodies were found during a search mission by Emergency Services in a water pond that was reportedly formed by excavations at a nearby construction site, in Duduza. According to the community; this large, rain-filled pit, unsecured and unmarked, has become a hazardous attraction for informal swimming to children in the area. The South African Police Service (SAPS) is investigating circumstances surrounding this incident. The GDE’s Psycho-Social Support Unit has b...

KASIBC_AFRICA  ONLINE EDITOR MAKE KASI GREAT  LOTTO R60BILLION CORRUPTION  @KASIBC_AFRICA  Tomorrow, following the DA’s request, the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) and the Minister of Trade, Industry & Competition, Parks Tau, will appear before the Portfolio Committee in Parliament to answer to numerous concerns surrounding the awarding of the lottery licence to Sizekhaya Holdings.  This follows revelations of links between Sizekhaya and the Deputy President, Paul Mashatile. The DA will demand complete transparency from the Minister tomorrow on whether the Deputy President was in any way involved in awarding the R60 billion contract. We will also demand a full record of the Minister’s decision-making process. After leaving the decision on the tender award to the last minute and jeopardising the functioning of the lottery over the next year, Minister Parks Tau finally awarded the licence to Sizekhaya Holdings. Sizekhaya is reportedly part-owned by Bellam...

TOKOLOGO MUNICIPALITY SIU  INVESTIGATION  @KASIBC_AFRICA  @KASIBC_AFRICA ONLINE EDITOR  The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Tokologo will table a motion to overhaul the municipality’s Supply Chain Management (SCM) policy after a Special Investigating Unit (SIU) probe was hampered by missing procurement records. The SIU was mandated to investigate the irregular procurement of 15 High-Mass Lights and the electrification of New Stance Settlement (Mamantelekile) in Boshof, but found that key documents had either gone missing or were deliberately destroyed. It should be overhauled to prevent the irregular appointments of service providers, especially those that are appointed on an emergency basis without following the due processes of the normal SCM. The investigation by the SIU revealed that all procurement documents related to the procurement of these 15 High Mass Lights could not be found, as they were either lost or intentionally destroyed to conceal information. The muni...

MAKE KASI GREAT  NKANDLA STUDENT ACCOMMODATION CRISES @KASIBC_AFRICA The Democratic Alliance Student Organisation (DASO) in KwaZulu-Natal welcomes the swift relocation of students from substandard off-campus housing at Umfolozi TVET College's Nkandla Campus to safer accommodation, following DASO’s oversight visit last month which exposed the appalling living conditions. During an oversight visit to the campus' internal residences and two privately operated student hostels outside of the campus, DASO identified broken infrastructure, cramped living conditions, a lack of security, and general unsafe conditions at the external facilities. At the most appalling external accomodation, we found that NSFAS was paying R3000 per student for two students to share a tiny room with no running water, broken windows, no security, and broken communal showers - to name a few. Our intervention compelled the University and the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) to act immediately—stud...