Pravin Gordhan
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Analysis
Apartheid-Style Propaganda Upon Us
IN the advent of South Africa’s democracy, much to the shock of the majority of people living in this country,…
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Analysis
Black or White – Andre De Ruyter is Useless – finish and klaar
HAVING appointed one of his chief supporters Jabu Mabuza as the chairman of the Eskom board when by his (Mabuza’s)…
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Analysis
Rejoinder to Ramasimong Tsokolibane’s Views on SA’s Energy Policy & Climate Change Mitigation
I am at loss as to what to make of the article by Mr Tsokolibane “Nuclear Energy Now and Fusion…
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The Blackout Scam- How Workers are Subsidizing Big Capital
We republish an old article from 2007, which is still relevant today. We wish to emphasize that Eskom has sufficient…
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State Capture
Jayendra Naidoo’s “Reckless R9.3bn Loan” From PIC
Jayendra Naidoo’s company, Lancaster, received R9.3 billion from the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) to buy shares in Steinhoff, which later…
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Why SA Needs Fresh Leaders In Parly
IN the week that Eskom announced the historic stage 4 load-shedding and bumbled from one excuse to another, our leaders…
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Flawed Monetary Policy behind Eskom crisis
Eskom recently applied to NERSA to increase electricity tariffs by a whopping 15% per year over the next 3 years…
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Letsoalo’s Sacking Was Never About The Salary
FOR those of you who cannot recall who Collins Letsoalo is, a little reminder. He’s the man who was fired…
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No Traces of Fascism in Malema’s Character
“A political game-changer and non-conformist extraordinaire” is how commentators described Julius Malema when he wore a red beret for the…
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Opinion
Dark Side Of Saint Gordhan
PRAVIN GORDHAN is a pharmacist who was deployed to the South African Revenue Services (Sars) to collect business and personal…
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Feature
#SAPressFreedomDay: Piet Rampedi’s Resignation Letter From Sunday Times
Dear Mr Bongani Sigoko (Editor of Sunday Times). Date: 08/03/2016 Subject: Termination of my employ at Sunday Times following capitulation…
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The Era Of McCarthyism Firmly Upon Us
MINISTER Nhlanhla Nene finally confirmed in a letter of apology last week Friday that he had met the Guptas, not…
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Destabilise Transnet At Your Peril
FORMER CEO of PRASA outilnes the relationship between Transnet and PRASA but more importantly the strategic importance Trasnet holds for…
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News
Competition Commission Investigates Vodacom’s Contract To Provide Mobile Services To All Government Departments
The Competition Commission has initiated an investigation against Vodacom Group (Pty) Ltd (Vodacom) for abuse of dominance after the company…
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Why Is KPMG Snubbing Johann Van Loggerenberg? Big Tobacco, Specifically British American Tobacco!
By Pinky Khoabane Johann Van Loggerenberg IN a statement released by lawyers acting for Johann Van Loggerenberg yesterday, it emerged…
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A Visit From Craig Williamson
By Pinky Khoabane I had it all set up last night – all written up. A little message to UnCensored…
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KPMG, Sars, Illicit Tobacco Trade & Politics
By Pinky Khoabane AUDITING FIRM KPMG “crumbled” last week, offering an apology, resignations of nine executives and promises to pay…
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Opinion
OPEN LETTER: Rupert: Not All Blacks Are Afraid Of You
By Tiisetso ‘Afrika’ Makhele Firstly, let me indicate to you what you already know. Your money is dirty and stinks…
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Neither currency stability nor balanced and sustainable growth: How SARB policy is violating South Africa’s constitution
Article first published in Buddy Wells’ Blog According to the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, the SA Reserve…
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Politics
Know Your History – Why We Call Them White Monopoly Capital Owned & Controlled Media
Courtesy of African Curators http://africancurators.com/2017/09/06/know-your-history-village-diaries/ A few years ago JOHANN RUPERT bought a company called ELEMENTONE which holds a stake in…
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Opinion
OPEN LETTER: Dear ANC NEC, Subject MPs to Lie Detector Test & Discipline Collaborators In Accordance With ANC Constitution
By Mlungisi Myezo ANC Top Six: Jessie Duarte, Gwede Mantashe, Baleka Mbete, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa and Zweli Mkhize Revolutionary…
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Open Letter: Dear Modern-Day Askaris
By Tiisetso ‘Afrika’ Makhele These people didn’t give you the mandate to vote with opposition against ANC My leaders, you…
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Nxasana represents interests of banks & cannot also represent pro-poor education funding
By Mukovhe Masutha History is littered with countless examples of how the elite hijack working class struggles in order to…
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Opinion
Let The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth Come Out About State Capture
By Carl Niehaus In the dying days of her term as Public Protector Advocate Thuli Madonsela was burning the midnight…
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Privatisation of State Owned Enterprises
By Pinky Khoabane “When the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund lend money to debtor countries, the money comes…
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Opinion
Why I am returning to ANC from EFF
By Kim Heller. Article was first published in The New Age www.thenewage.co.za IN LATE 2014, after I resigned as the…
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Trevor Manuel wants to Save South Africa?
The author looks at Trevor Manuel’s complicity in commodification of basic services to citizens in line with IMF and World…
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Open Letter to Finance Minister Gigaba – Please Act on SAA corruption as you will Treasury’s
Dear Comrade Minister We have in recent months learnt of institutionalised corruption at South African Airways (SAA) and in the…
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Opinion
Treasury’s Fall from Grace
Written by Colin Arendse on his Facebook Page On Friday, 26 May 2017, ANN7 dropped a bombshell when it revealed…
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Opinion
Vally Ruling: Subjective, Political & Biased
Greg Alexander Mashaba argues that the opposition parties , and in particular the DA , COPE , EFF and the…
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My Lord it is high time that you take your jacket and get out of Chambers!
By Carl Niehaus Judge Bashier Vally What an amazing collection of generalisations has judge Bashier Vally presented to us as…
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Vally Ruling – A case of Judicial Overreach?
By Pinky Khoabane A JUDICIARY that has either “overstepped” its mandate or a case of corruption in the judiciary or…
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Desperation of White Monopoly Capitalists & Stooges
By Pinky Khoabane Attempts to invalidate existence of White Monopoly Capital – We assist Thuli with evidence By now South…
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Opinion
365 Years OF SA Economic Slavery
By Adil Nchabeleng A SAVE-SA supporter on the eve of the SHUTDOWN march Friday 7th April 2017 SHUTDOWN march which…
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News
Accomplices to financial murder
By Wesley Seale via Cape Times The illicit financial flows from South Africa continue to hamper development in our country –…
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News
ALERT: Junk Status just Fake: Foreign investors pile into South African bonds despite fears
The story and graphic in the Financial Times tells us a different story from what the rating agencies seemingly tell…
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Opinion
SaveSA has destroyed Pravin Gordhan
Khaya Sithole SaveSA and its coterie of ambivalent corporate social activists have done a good job of destroying former Finance…
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Opinion
Dear Comrade Reader
Our efforts to publish stories that the commercial media ignore doesn’t mean we will publish un-corroborated information. We will not…
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Opinion
SA financially stable: Nomura economist
One of our readers, Bongani Ngcobo, has brought the views of this economist to our attention. Peter Attard Montalto, head…
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Rating agencies are tools of economic warfare
Pinky Khoabane If you’ve questioned the notion that today’s warfare will not be fought on the battlefields but in the…
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Politics
Rating announcement by S&P following recent political developments
Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba Government notes the sovereign rating announcement by S&P. While S&P has lowered its rating of foreign…
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Opinion
Shame on You Gwede Mantashe
Leaking ANC internal and confidential discussions is tantamount to organisational treason argues Khotso Molekane ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe The…
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Opinion
Banks push FIC amendment through back door – the courts
Pinky Khoabane Judge President Dunstan Mlambo EMERGING from the legal case between Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and the Guptas is…
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News
Gordhan goes on fishing expedition to muddy clear waters: GordhanVsGuptas
Having received advice from his legal counsel, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan had no business pursuing the matter further, the North…
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Opinion
Save South Africa From White Domination
Kim Heller If SaveSA is honest about saving the country, it would march against corporate corruption, the return of land…
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Opinion
Dear President Zuma
By Steven Motale The letter was first published in Weekly Xpose’ It has been nearly two years since I had…
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Opinion
Forex manipulation scandal: We know the harm is immense and can’t be fooled
Carl Niehaus takes a look at the forex scandal and how some economists, “experts” and media manipulated the story and…
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News
No Fingerprint System required for social grant bidders: Gordhan
By Pinky Khoabane Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan wanted the requirement of biometric verification to be excluded from the terms and…
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Rupert’s Grindrod Bank banks SASSA’s Billions
Johann Rupert, one of South Africa’s richest men, owns the Grindrod Bank which banks SASSA’s billions. Grindrod Bank is…
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Feature
Pravin’s portfolio of shares reveals much about state capture
The writer has analysed Pravin Gordhan’s portfolio of shares – banking and real estate – and exposes the influence they…
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News
DA lied: Pravin was at same PPF event which Eskom sponsored
Mzwanele Manyi of the Progressive Professional Forum The Progressive Professional Forum (PPF) led by Mzwanele Manyi has hit out at…
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Opinion
Pravin please respect us – we’re Black & can think for ourselves
By Devine Hadebe Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s recent attacks on Black interest groups cannot go unchallenged. Gordhan recently accused the…
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Sanitising White Corruption; Currency Rigging, SARB & Treasury
By Devine Hadebe In the immediate aftermath of the announcement that seventeen banks had been rigging the rand as far…
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Feature
Pravin Gordhan’s shares in banks pose a conflict of interest
Parliamentary Ethics Committee yesterday released its annual register of financial interests of parliamentarians. The main purpose of the register is to…
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News
Pityana, Pravin, Somebody say something #BankingCorruption
By Pinky Khoabane AFTER two days of a massive expose of corruption and looting by the banks, we have still…
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Fire Pravin & others if we are to achieve economic transformation we need
UnCensored’s Reader Stalin puts forward a 10-point-plan towards achieving economic transformation. For how long will we lament about non-transformation of…
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South Africa needs a finance ministry more in touch with its people than rating agencies
By Pinky Khoabane The President of the Republic of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, will in a few hours’ time deliver…
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Former Treasury man’s appointment at Standard Bank is a conflict of interest
By Pinky Khoabane Former Treasury Chief Procurement Officer Kenneth Brown left the department under a cloud following disclosures that he…
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Unlawful dismissal – reinstate Steve Motale as editor, Labour Court tells The Citizen
By Pinky Khoabane Steve Motale The Labour Court this morning, ordered The Citizen to reinstate former editor Steve Motale and pay…
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OPINION: Rating Agency Moody’s pays $864m to settle probe into inflated ratings
By Pinky Khoabane Those of us who live in South Africa know fully well the extent to which our country…
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Opinion
Ciex no work of Fiction: Koorbonally to Johann Rupert
OPEN LETTER TO JOHAN RUPERT Ref is made to: Ciex Investigation & findings. Operations on behalf of RSA Government Aug…
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Oakbay outlines how Gordhan targeted the Guptas
Original article carried in www.fin24.com Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan The statement by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan to “clip the wings”…
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The Citizen Lied – Stories on Jonas, Manuel & Hlaudi had everything to do with Motale’s sacking
By Pinky Khoabane Articles on Deputy Finance Minister, Mcebisi Jonas, former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and SABC boss Hlaudi Motshoeneg…
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Zuma promised to pursue case of apartheid looting – CIEX
By Pinky Khoabane President Jacob Zuma had “endless briefings” with authors of the CIEX report into large-scale apartheid theft ahead of…
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Showdown looms as Motale takes The Citizen to court
The former editor of The Citizen, Steve Motale, will meet his former employers in the Labour court on January 19…
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Failed attempt to conceal proxy war in battle for coal and Eskom’s billions
The Maytrix argues that the concerted campaign including state capture investigation have but failed to conceal the proxy war between Rupert…
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Precedents that will come to haunt us
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang The Maytrix argues that in the pursuit of individuals, South Africa has set dangerous precedents that will come…
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Is it just a coincidence? You decide
Reaction to Brian Molefe’s resignation captured social media last night but one which caught mine is this one from Sanele…
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Radical Policy Reset Only Way To Reverse Social and Economic Catastrophe
A warning by Redge Nkosi: Reform macro-economic policy or face a revolution of an unprecedented scale….He’s the Executive Director and Research…
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State Capture: Mcebisi Jonas’s testimony
By Pinky Khoabane Mcebisi Jonas A press statement (attached) released by Deputy Finance Minister, Mcebisi Jonas on 16 March 2016…
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Thuli’s shady conduct in state capture probe
The Maytrix questions the conduct of former public protector, Thuli Madonsela in the state capture probe. Did Thuli Madonsela act…
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Lefties hypocrisy in frozen bank accounts laid bare
Whether it’s the Gupta’s or Russia Today’s bank accounts that have been frozen, the lefties’ bias and hypocrisy is showing….by…
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Battle for the soul of SA’s economy at all time high
By Pinky Khoabane The battle for the soul of South Africa’s economy has reached such a crescendo that it is…
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Investigate Treasury’s Chief Procurement Officer: Manyi
The HAWKS confirmed they had received a complaint from the Mzwanele Manyi Decolonisation Foundation asking the police unit to investigate…
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What’s the endgame for Thuli in State Capture Probe
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela is rushing to ensure she finalises the report into the now famous state capture by the…
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British American Tobacco’s dirty tricks: Part 1
By Pinky Khoabane British American Tobacco (BAT) has been involved in a full-scale war against African policy makers keen on…
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Why Helen Suzman Foundation is protecting Pravin
If you’ve wondered about the link between the Helen Suzman Foundation and why it would undermine the Hawks and protect…
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Why Molefe is a threat
Pinky Khoabane argues Eskom’s Brian Molefe is rattling the white established coal mining sector…. Eskom’s CEO, Brian Molefe is under…
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Gordhan: From Rogue to Untouchable
By Pinky Khoabane WHEN the media stops being a mirror of society but takes sides on stories, we end up…
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