The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the Democratic Alliance (DA) are preparing to square off in Port Elizabeth by hosting rallies a day before the EFF’s motion of no confidence in Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Athol Trollip.
EFF leader Julius Malema is expected to address EFF supporters at the Nangoza Jebe Hall in New Brighton at………..
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The ANC will not support Jacob Zuma in his upcoming corruption trial, but the party’s members can — as long as they don’t wear the party’s regalia.
This is a very different approach from Zuma’s rape trial, as well as initial attempts to lay corruption charges against him, in which he received overwhelming support from ANC structures, with many calling the charges politically motivated.
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After a false start earlier this week, Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille’s disciplinary hearing is due to start on Thursday.
De Lille was charged with contravening the DA’s federal constitution amid claims of misconduct.
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The company that received the Guptas’ Sars VAT payout is closely connected to a company whose R2.2-billion contract with Sars was cancelled in 2016 because one of its shareholders was now suspended Sars commissioner Tom Moyane’s nephew.
In 2016, Moyane’s nephew Nhlamulo Ndhlela was found to have scored a debt collection contract from Sars worth R220-million.
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South African corporate scandals will be the order of the day in Parliament on Tuesday, as the standing committee on finance rolls up its sleeves for a full day of hearings into the imbroglios at Steinhoff, KPMG, VBS Mutual Bank, and the SA Revenue Service.
The committee will start by receiving briefings on Capitec Bank and VBS Mutual Bank on Tuesday morning.
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Tiger Brands has suspended production at its Pretoria plant following detection of “very low levels” of the ST6 strain of Listeria.
The company said that the bacteria detected was within government standards, however, it had decided to take precautionary
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National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) boss Shaun Abrahams is expected to make his much-anticipated announcement on Friday afternoon on whether or not former president Jacob Zuma will be facing criminal charges.
The announcement will be made at 15:30 at the NPA offices in Silverton, Pretoria, spokesperson Luvuyo Mfaku told News24.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has reiterated the government’s support for land expropriation without compensation, but dodged explaining to gathered MPs if the state has worked out a detailed plan to make it happen.
Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane had submitted a question in Parliament on how the state plans to expropriate land without paying for it.
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The South African Social Security Agency’s (Sassa) contingency plan to manage the cash component of the social grants system, were the Constitutional Court to deny an extension of the invalid CPS contract, was only work in progress, its acting CEO has said.
The Constitutional Court last week demanded that both Sassa and the South African Post Office (Sapo) clarify the contingency measures, put in place to deal with the payment of social grants.
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Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has confirmed to Parliament’s committee on public enterprises that he would attend its inquiry into the abuse and mismanagement of state-owned enterprises.
Chairperson of the public enterprises committee Daphne Ranto told the Mail & Guardian on Tuesday morning that Gigaba
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Come April 1, beneficiaries will receive their social grants, but the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) will still need the help of Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) to make it happen.
Sassa announced in a joint press conference with the South African Post Office (Sapo) on Thursday that the two had made strides to ensure that South Africa’s 17-million grant beneficiaries will be paid on time.
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The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) does not have alternative plans if the court refuses to extend the Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) contract by another six months, the Constitutional Court heard on Tuesday.
“There will be chaos,” Nazeer Cassim, the advocate for Sassa, argued before a full Bench.
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Tiger Brands has yet to see any evidence linking its meat products directly to the deaths of 180 people in a virulent listeriosis outbreak, chief executive Lawrence MacDougall said at press conference, on Monday
“There is no direct link with the deaths to the products, that we are aware of at this point,” MacDougall told journalists.
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The country’s current debate over land expropriation without compensation, which has now been endorsed by Parliament, is important. Not because, as some fear, it will radically change the constitution. Rather, it tells South Africans how, in the economy and other spheres, the country deals with its minority ruled past: by crisis followed by compromise.
Crises are the only way change happens because, since the 1970s, the goal of the minority which has called the shots in the society for decades has been to ensure that changes alter as little as possible.
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Last week, a South African citizen was sentenced to death in a courtroom in Juba.
But what exactly was William Endley, a former career officer in the South African army —in both its pre- and post-1994 iterations — doing in South Sudan to begin with?
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