Sunday, June 1, 2025

Thursday Morning Spice

Time running out for trapped mineworkers. Tim Noakes breaks down in tears. Brait offloading Primedia. Expect chaos at SONA. Free State woman buried alive. Say goodbye to Flash ads. Premier player child sex charges. Mumford fan critical at Voortrekker monument. What Kendall makes from endorsements.

Tuesday Morning Spice

Trapped miners still alive. Bomb was bound for Turkish Airlines. Hong Kong violence. Trump calls rival a pussy. Zika Virus: US tells athletes to consider skipping Olympics. Puma’s white legal team. Mandela’s Muslim wedding pics. Liam Neeson with ‘incredibly famous’ woman.

Ramphele Resigns From Gold Fields – Clears The Way To Announce New Political Party?

Anti apartheid activist, Mamphela Ramphele resigned as chairwoman of the Gold Fields Mining yesterday. This news only fuels the fire that Ramphele is starting her own political party to challenge the country’s ruling African National Congress. According to Gold Fields, Ramphele retired “to further her socio-economic and political work.” Speculation went into overdrive when Ramphele visited […]

Protests Spread To Royal Bafokeng As Drillers Down Tools

More bad news for the platinum industry. Rock drillers at the Royal Bafokeng platinum mine, close to Lonmin mines, have also begun to gather in protest against their wages. The group of 600 miners gathered outside the Royal Bafokeng mine to demand better wages for their work.

New Footage Shows Miners Shot At Police First [GRAPHIC VIDEO]

A lot of questions are being asked after the most recent shootout between police and mineworkers at Marikana. By using various camera angles, including this new footage obtained from Al Jazeera, a miner can be seen firing a hand pistol towards authorities first. The police then responded by unleashing a volley of fire into the crowd – gunning down 34 people in the process.

Clashes Between North West Mine Workers And Police Claim Ten Lives [GALLERY]

Today is the first day that no incidents were reported from the violence-stricken Marikana mine in the North West. Chaos erupted on Friday when thousands of Lonmin rock drill operators started an illegal work stoppage and protest march. Since then 10 people – two police officers, two security guards, three protesters, and three others – have been killed.

Controversial Businessman Shot Dead In Cape Town

Yesterday afternoon at an office on Cape Town’s busy Long Street, Herman Pretorius shot and killed his former business partner Julian Williams. The two had been involved in some kind of dispute.

Will A Mining Tax Help Clean Up Toxic Water?

A new levy for the mining industry is currently under consideration by Government. The purpose of the tax would be to finance the clean up of toxic acid water which rises and flows out of abandoned mines. Pollution from acid mine water is a major problem in Gauteng. Very unpleasant.

CEVICHE A LA JOHANNESBURG

If you have a taste for sushi and other good food, and you haven’t tried ceviche, you simply must. Ceviche, for those of you who are uninformed, is a dish of unknown hispanic origin comprised of thinly sliced raw white fish, which is subsequently “cooked” in a thin bath of lemon juice, or a similar […]

JOBURG MINE HOUSE DIGS A PORTAL TO HELL

If you, like me, are something of an amateur (read: ignorant) economist, then you’ve probably wondered on occasion why gold is so friggin expensive. Part of the answer is definitely due to the fact that mining houses share their office space with Satan and his cronies.