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Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Athol Trollip might survive the vote of no confidence in him on Thursday, but his days are numbered and he will not see the end of his political term in office, Economic Freedom Fighters commander-in-chief Julius Malema told a packed Nangoza Jebe Hall in New Brighton on Wednesday evening.
Malema said there were people who were upset with the EFF leadership for deciding to vote against the DA in the Metro.
“You must ask yourself why you voted for the EFF,” he said.
Malema said there were several issues in the EFF manifesto, including minimum wage, land expropriation without compensation, increasing social grants and banning labour brokers.
“All of these manifestos of the EFF, there is nowhere where we said we would vote for the ANC. There is nowhere where we said, vote for us and we will vote for the DA. We never said that. None of you voted for us in order for us to vote for the DA. None of you voted for us in order for us to vote for the ANC.
“So, while we do the tactic of moving tables and playing [musical] chairs in order to deliver these things we promised you, why are you becoming angry and irritated?” he said.
Trollip’s days are numbered
Malema said Trollip could continue leading and that he did not care, but he added that Trollip would do so without the mandate or support of the EFF.
“If he wins, there is no problem. There will not be a war. It is democracy in action.”
Malema said they would accept the outcome of the vote of no confidence, but said EFF supporters should not have nightmares about the alliance between the DA and the Patriotic Alliance.
“As long as we have pronounced that Trollip is going, he will go. There may be a marriage of convenience tomorrow with gangsters and all that, but Trollip will not finish his term as mayor of Nelson Mandela [Bay]”
“Once the EFF have pronounced on you, we don’t stop. Tomorrow we will attempt to remove Trollip. If we fail tomorrow, we will come back again and, if we fail, we will come back again until we collapse him and teach him a lesson. We are going for him. We have taken a decision and there is no retreat.
“How many motions did [former president Jacob] Zuma defeat? Where is Zuma today? Who is Trollip who survives on some 50/50 arrangement? Zuma had 60% plus, but when the EFF said come here, motion of no confidence, he left running,” he said.
“Trollip, tomorrow, the day after, it doesn’t matter. We have declared that you are going and it will not change.”
“He must pass budget, he doesn’t have our vote. Whatever he wants to do with the municipality, we are not with him. He is alone until they come before us and tell us how we are getting our land,” he said.
‘I don’t hate whites’
“I don’t hate white people, I just love black people. I’m already in a relationship with black people,” he said.
“We will fight white dominance, white supremacy, whiteness, wherever it raises its ugly head,” he said.
Malema said the party could stand up to whites because they had not taken any money from white people.
“They said we took the money of the farm owners to finance the EFF. Let me tell you, a new policy has been passed by Parliament where political parties must disclose their funders. The EFF will do the same thing. We have nothing to hide. We never took the money of a white man.
“We never took the money of a white man and that’s why we are the only party that stands up to the white man. No one in South Africa can do that except the EFF. All of them have taken the money of white people, and all of them are scared to change the property relations in South Africa because they are compromised by their business interests and their relationship with white monopoly capital. We are the only ones,” he said.
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Embattled Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Athol Trollip has just received another boost in his bid to survive a motion of no confidence in his leadership, as the African Independent Congress (AIC) has switched sides too.
AIC president Mandla Galo confirmed to News24 on Wednesday evening that the party has instructed its sole councillor in the metro to vote with the DA on the motion against Trollip.
The shift in vote now takes the likely outcome in the 120-seat council to 61-59 in favour of keeping Trollip, all things being equal.
Galo said the party currently has an agreement with the ANC, signed in April last year, to incorporate the Matatiele municipality into the KwaZulu-Natal province, rather than its current location in the Eastern Cape.
The party’s main mandate since being voted into the fifth Parliament in 2014, was to secure incorporation into KZN.
Since April however, his party has been increasingly frustrated with the slow progress in that regard.
“Recently we were highly perturbed by a statement of the Eastern Cape ANC that they would not allow the municipality of Matatiele to be incorporated into KZN,” he said.
He said the provincial ANC was going against a national agreement, labelling it “arrogance” to deny what he termed the “will of the people” in the region.
More ANC metros under threat
“Why is Luthuli House failing to give orders to the Eastern Cape?” he said.
“We are saying that we need to teach the ANC a lesson to say that if they don’t agree to our coalition agreement, then that is going to happen tomorrow. We have instructed our councillor to vote with the DA.”
They had initially considered abstaining, but determined it would have no impact.
Galo said they ultimately want the ANC to stick to their agreement and thus had further warnings for the ruling party down the line.
“Come end of May 2018, if the people of Matatiele are not incorporated into KwaZulu-Natal, as is their will, we are going to pull out of [the] Ekurhuleni and Rustenburg [metros].
“The ANC will lose there then. As AIC, there is nothing that we are going to lose.”
‘We all human beings, colour has no meaning’
As for the Economic Freedom Fighters’ reasoning for tabling the motion against Trollip, to punish the DA’s “white mayor”, he said the party could not subscribe to such blatant racial motivations.
“As African Independent Congress, we don’t identify people in terms of colour.
“We believe we are all human beings, and we are creations of the Almighty, which means colour has no meaning as far as we are concerned.”
They just wanted to get along with all races and for Parliament to improve its discourse on racism.
Something was wrong with the human race that it continues to see itself different from others based on race, he added.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Patriotic Alliance also signed a coalition deal with the DA on Tuesday evening to vote with the party. PA councillor Marlon Daniels will become deputy mayor, if successful.
The special council will sit from 08:00 on Thursday.
BLOEMFONTEIN – It was out with the old Free State premier and in with the new – apparently all costing the taxpayer a pretty penny.
Former premier Ace Magashule handed over to new Premier, Sisi Ntombela, at a farewell bash attended by several ministers in Bloemfontein on Wednesday.
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) charge the celebration cost government R20 million.
One would expect there to be cake, but there wasn’t.
Ntombela, the former Free State MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, will take over from Magashule.
Magashule, the African National Congress (ANC)’s newly-appointed Secretary General, leaves behind an office filled with scandal since he assumed office in May 2009.
The former premier faces questions over his apparent involvement in the failed multi-million rand Gupta-linked Estina Dairy project in Vrede.
Speaking at the farewell, the new premier said she was here to work.
Responding to a question from the red berets in Parliament about the reported expenditure, Deputy President David Mabuza said: “You are very correct to raise concern about this matter of a farewell party where money is going to be spent. We don’t have money, we have a lot of problems. So as leaders, we must use the little resources we have correctly.”
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in the province said it was a case of de ja vu.
“Ace Magashule has a track record of ignoring cost containment measures in the Free State. In 2009 when he became Premier of the Province, his inauguration function together with his State of the Province Address (Sopa), amounted to R14.3 million. Once again, he’s ignoring all the requests to contain costs in the province,” the DA’s Roy Jankielsohn said.
Attempts to reach the former premier’s spokesperson went unanswered.
London – Shane Warne branded reaction to the Australian ball-tampering scandal a “tornado of hysteria” on Wednesday and said the punishments meted out to Steve Smith and David Warner do not fit the crime.
Captain Smith and vice-captain Warner have been banned from representing their country for a year over the cheating incident during the third Test in South Africa, while opening batsman Cameron Bancroft has been suspended for nine months.
“We are all so hurt and angry and maybe we weren’t so sure how to react,” Warne wrote on Facebook. “We’d just never seen it before.
“But the jump to hysteria is something that has elevated the offence beyond what they actually did, and maybe we’re at a point where the punishment just might not fit the crime.”
The former leg-spinner – second on the overall list of Test wicket-takers – said Australia’s enemies had taken the opportunity to put the boot in.
“There are those countries that don’t like Australia, don’t like individuals in the team, and there has been a build-up of hate which has exploded and created this tornado of hysteria,” he wrote.
“But what are the players guilty of? Cheating via ball-tampering and bringing the game into disrepute.
“Their opposing captain in this series, South Africa’s Faf du Plessis, has been charged with the offence twice and opening bowler Vernon Philander once.
“The list of players who have been charged with ball-tampering is long and contains some of the biggest names in the game.”
Warne also questioned the idea of pre-meditated cheating.
“Are there levels of ball tampering, or is it just ball tampering? Is putting a mint in your pocket so you can shine a ball on the field pre-meditated cheating, or just ball-tampering. What about putting sunscreen on the ball? You either ball tamper or you don’t.”
Warne said Smith, the top-ranked Test batsman in the world, was guilty of a “severe error of judgement”.
“I am still trying to wrestle with what I think the punishment should be,” he said. “They have to be harsh, but if they are rubbed out for a year, the punishment does not fit the crime.”
JOHANNESBURG – At least 13 people have died in a horror crash involving a bus in Satansnek, Eastern Cape Health Department spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said late on Wednesday.
He said 12 people died on the scene, while one person passed away in hospital.
At least seven people were critically injured and taken to hospital by helicopter, Kupelo added.
Around 18 others were seriously hurt, while 17 people were said to be stable.
Kupelo said it took officials on the scene hours to free three patients from the wreckage, using the Jaws of Life.
Pretoria, 28 March 2018 – The South African Revenue Service (SARS) is ready to implement the Sugary Beverages Levy (SBL) which comes into effect on 1 April 2018.
Manufacturers that produce sugary beverages with a total annual sugar content in excess of 500 kg per year need to be licensed with SARS and pay the levy to SARS. Those manufacturers that produce below the 500kg per year will not have to pay the levy, but they are required to register with SARS.
SARS has ensured the necessary systems are available to effectively and efficiently deal with the processing, licensing and registration of manufacturers of sugary beverages.
The levy will be charged at 2.1 cents per gram of the sugar content which exceeds 4 grams per 100ml. This means that the first 4 grams per 100ml are levy free. Sugary beverages manufactured before 1 April 2018 will not be subject to the levy.
In line with SARS’s approach to educate taxpayers and make it easy to comply with their tax obligations, SARS has engaged importers, manufacturers and other industry stakeholders through a series of roadshows held in five provinces earlier in March.
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If there’s one thing that’s worth keeping track of, it’s when you ovulate.
Sure, ovulation lasts for all of one day out of your 28-day cycle, but it’s arguably the most important day.
That’s because it represents the tiny window of time when you could feasibly conceive a baby (either an exciting or terrifying concept, depending).
What is ovulation?
Ovulation is the point in the menstrual cycle where one little egg travels from your ovary (where it lives with thousands of other eggs) into the body’s fallopian tubes, according to the National Institutes of Health.
The egg knows it’s time to start this journey thanks to signals from your hormones – usually around day 14 of your menstrual cycle. And those hormones also trigger the uterus to prepare for a potential baby by thickening its lining, says the NIH.
The egg will then hang out in the fallopian tubes for 12 to 24 hours, waiting to join forces with passing sperm, according to the American Pregnancy Association. (Sperm can remain in the female reproductive tract for up to five days, so it’s not like you’ve only have a one-day window to do the deed if you’re trying to conceive.)
If the egg is not fertilised, the uterus sheds its lining (and the egg) – and you get your period.
“Technically, a period is the release of blood and uterine tissue that happens two weeks after your period starts – the body’s way of resetting the uterus after not getting pregnant from that month’s ovulation,” Dr Jennifer Conti, a clinical assistant professor at Stanford University in California, tells Women’s Health.
Unless you’re tracking your cycle, you probably won’t know when you’re ovulating – although some people report feeling mittelschmerz (German for “middle pain”), abdominal pain that coincides with ovulation.
For the majority of people, vaginal discharge is a clearer indicator: When you’re ovulating or close to ovulation, discharge becomes thick and white.
Those who use fertility awareness – based family planning methods (not a good idea if you don’t want to get pregnant; fine if you do) might also be familiar with tracking their basal body temperature, or the body’s temperature when fully at rest. Basal body temperature is best measured first thing after you wake up, and dips slightly as ovulation approaches. When you ovulate, that number will swing suddenly up.
You might also notice that your sex drive peaks around ovulation, depending on your baseline libido levels.
Ovulation tests are also available at most drug stores, but Dr Conti cautions that if you have polycystic ovary syndrome, you might get false positives.
“Ovulation is not as straightforward as it seems,” says Dr Conti. “A lot of people think that just because they’re bleeding, they’re ovulating regularly, and that’s not necessarily true. Blood does not always equal ovulation, and blood does not always equal a period, or menstruation.”
Bleeding between periods or at unpredictable intervals, Dr Conti says, could be a sign that you’re not ovulating regularly.
Irregular vaginal bleeding can also signal a number of more serious problems, so if you’re concerned, it’s best to book an appointment with a gynaecologist or visit a reproductive health care clinic.
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This article was originally published on www.womenshealthmag.com
