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Alberton couple kick Standard Bank to touch - An Alberton couple recently defeated an attempt by Standard Bank to repossess their home after they demonstrated that they had settled the arrears the bank was claiming. Thousands of other South Africans i... https://t.co/ahkAlYESFV

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Not all conspiracy theories about courts and lawyers are false - Not all conspiracy theories involving courts and lawyers are false. Here, in the grimy halls of justice, the banks are daily flouting the law in ways that most people do not realise. But... https://t.co/xgQbGlj1JZ

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Has the land grab begun, or will it be nipped in the bud? - Joburg mayor Herman Mashaba recently ordered police to stop land invasions in Orange Farm and Blue Hills, both near Johannesburg. President Cyril Ramaphosa, responding to another land grab at... https://t.co/3PVC5qVF05

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Zuma's mortgage banker, VBS, placed under curatorship - VBS, a small mutual bank with R2bn in assets, shot to prominence in 2017 when it awarded then President Zuma a R7,8m home loan. It has now been placed under curatorship by the Reserve Bank follow... https://t.co/8Jmf3HyViL

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Land reform fears are overblown - Parliamentary discussions on land reform have prompted much breathless commentary. But, while the proposed changes remain unclear, a mushy compromise is more likely than a Zimbabwe-style land grab, says London-based e... https://t.co/khgc1cVVLR

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170 billion reasons why the SA Reserve Bank is a target for capture - Former Reserve Bank employee and now senior economist at Efficient Group, Dawie Roodt, says there are 170 billion good reasons why the state would want to get its hands on the asset... https://t.co/FRCp7Vw8Lz

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Why SA needs formal rules for class action suits - South Africa needs formal rules for class action suits. One of the problems class action litigants face is first being recognised by the court as a class. In this article written in The Conversation, ... https://t.co/lHeNEitpwz

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Russia to the US: our nuclear missiles are untouchable - If anything should put the fear of God into the West, it is the State of the Nation address given by Vladimir Putin earlier this week. He detailed a new generation of nuclear weaponry that is im... https://t.co/2IC0nCCKBs

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Dealing with the land question without killing the golden goose - Land will become one of the major political issues in 2018 and beyond, with "expropriation without compensation" being the preferred route of redistribution for the ANC and EFF, among o... https://t.co/qH635QKL9e

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How Royal Bank of Scotland trained employees to forge signatures - Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) employees were trained to forge signatures on documents and fabricate financial instruments on a routine basis to foreclose on homes they couldn't prove th... https://t.co/ktMSLdAetQ

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26 changes to the cabinet - some good, some awful - Perhaps the best news in the cabinet reshuffle announced on Monday by President Cyril Ramaphosa is that Nhlanhla Nene is back at the finance ministry, and Pravin Gordhan gets to run public enterprise... https://t.co/ND8QjXHttn

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More people on welfare than have jobs in SA - There are now more people receiving social grants in SA than there are people with jobs. Narius Moloto, secretary general of trade union federation NACTU, says this is another form of political patronage u... https://t.co/iBvgL43T1D

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What an awful budget - Roodt - Many words were used to describe the budget. They include “balanced”, “difficult but fair”, “understandable”, “conservative” (a major bank), “the price of the Zuma-years” (an analyst), “we had no option”, “balanced act u... https://t.co/n2ZaQ1rK2A

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SA's medieval legal system among the most expensive in the world - The late Mario Oriani-Ambrosini, formerly Inkatha Freedom Party’s justice spokesman, was a Constitutional expert and an advocate for sweeping reform of our justice system. In this arti... https://t.co/2m8xU7M8xk

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Nedbank client takes his case to the Jersey court - Ian Brakspear of Durban has been fighting his case against Nedbank for the better part of a decade. It all started when the bank foreclosed on a R7m loan he says he neither asked for nor received. A ... https://t.co/67JYhr34be

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Budget 2018 highlights - A summary of some of the key highights from Finance Minister Gigaba's Budget speech today. https://t.co/d9uyaZxOcd

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What to expect in the Budget - A possible increase in VAT, fuel levies and allowing income tax brackets to remain as they are - a way for government to increase revenue by not adjusting these brackets for inflation - are some of the things to expect i... https://t.co/uU7alQuoej

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Former CIA director admits the US meddled in other countries' elections - Former CIA chief James Woolsey appeared on Fox News to push the narrative of how dastardly 'dem Russkies' are in their meddling with the sacred soul of America's democracy. He a... https://t.co/bY2OJ1yL5w

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We say goodbye to Morgan Tsvangirai, a brave and iconic leader - Morgan Tsvangirai passed away this week in South Africa after a long struggle with cancer. He brought hope to the people of Zimbabwe and should rightly have been president of the country... https://t.co/3oV69dvF5M

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Good riddance Zuma - It is with an overwhelming sense of joy and relief that SA can say goodbye to Jacob Zuma. His rule, at the helm of our country, in the highest office in the land — which all citizens should respect — has been a mockery of democrac... https://t.co/KpbdQQRqdM