Newlands-Oos in Durban is ver van die blink hoogtes van die Burj Khalifa in Dubai, maar dit is waar Duduzane Zuma blykbaar sy poging om president te word, loods.
Die jong Zuma het leiers ontmoet van die ANC se afdeling wyk 11, wat die voormalige kleurlingdorp Newlands-Oos insluit, en die verarmde gebiede Siyanda en Quarry Heights naby KwaMashu, eThekwini.
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Despots & Tin Pot Dictators: If The UK’s House of Lords is only now waking up to the endemic corruption and violence in Zimbabwe, after decades of Mugabe, does that mean it will be four decades before they wake up to the endemic corruption and violence in the ANC regime in SA, the very people who they now think will even consider pressurizing Zimbabwe’s regime to end corruption and violence?
Or do they care more about the bars of gold after a prominent figure in Zimbabwe’s ruling party was arrested trying to smuggle 14 bars of gold on a flight to Dubai.
Airport scanners at Harare on Monday picked up 6kg of gold valued at £280,000 (about 6 Million Rand) in the handbag of Henrietta Rushwaya, who is head of the Zimbabwe Miners Federation and a niece of President Mnangagwa. Ms Rushwaya, 53, appeared in court this week charged with smuggling,
Steven Tserayi, one of the president’s long-term aides, was detained with her,
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Tons of gold mined illegally was smuggled out of South- Africa during the state capture.
In the course of 2012 to 2015, more than 34 metric tons of gold went to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, which did not reflect in the SA trade account.
The information was announced by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime researchers.
According to the report, the illegal gold mining cost the country about R14 billion a year. It is to believe that the illegal trade via Swaziland and Mozambique is sent to jeweler manufacturers in Dubai.
Observers deem this is one of the major explanations why South Africa’s economy is struggling, and suspicions are that diamonds and other precious stones will soon follow the same route.
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Despite the findings by the Public Protector that Mbalula has received at least R300,000 from Sedgars Sport for a family vacation in Dubai, the ANC still declared their full confidence in him. The National Prosecuting Authority has indicated that they will check the OB’s report before deciding whether to prosecute.
The ride cost R680,000 and it is still unknown who paid for the balance.
Observers believe that the ANC president has not yet realized that it is the irregularities that pinch South Africa’s economy because foreign investors perceive all the horrors.
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