The restructuring of the South African Revenue Service’s operating model was unnecessary and undercut the efficiency of the revenue services. This is according to testimony given during the second leg of the Nugent commission on Tuesday.
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Implementation of Moyane-sanctioned model moved SARS efficiency backwards
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DA begins it’s search for a new Cape Town mayor
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The Democratic Alliance (DA) has begun accepting job applications to fill the seat of outgoing Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille for when she vacates her office in October. The party hopes to find a new mayor by the end of September.
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So it is Day One for the state capture inquiry to get underway
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The highly anticipated judicial commission of inquiry into state capture — headed by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo — will kick off on Monday in Parktown, Johannesburg.
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Businesses won’t pay the municipalities … but ESKOM directly
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While 96 municipalities across the country are scrambling to negotiate payment agreements with Eskom for overdue bills that amount to R27.8-billion, local businesses are fighting to pay Eskom directly, bypassing the municipalities, in a bid to keep the local economies going.
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‘I will return to serve society’ – Shaun Abrahams – Former national director of public prosecutions
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Former national director of public prosecutions (NDPP) Shaun Abrahams will be taking time out after being stripped of his position at the helm of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) by the Constitutional Court.
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Transnet:- CEO Gama, two other officials suspended
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Transnet’s board has issued its chief executive, Siyabonga Gama, chief procurement officer Thamsanqa Jiyane and supply chain manager Lindiwe Mdletshe with precautionary suspension notices, the state-owned entity said on Thursday.
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‘The truth will set us free’:- Bird Island child abuse
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The past is a foreign country. Until it shakes us out of our collective slumber on a cold Sunday morning. It confronts us from the front page of a Sunday paper. Secrets long hidden burst to the fore like a ripe abscess. The recent revelations of the sexual abuse of boys by National Party ministers in PW Botha’s Cabinet can be described as the last taboo.
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AgriSA vs. AfriForum’s #farmlist, who will you believe and support!!
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Afrikaner interest group AfriForum’s publication of an alleged list of farms that it claims are being targeted for land expropriation without compensation has been met with condemnation by agricultural lobby group, AgriSA.
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A bombshell plan to lay off 30 000 public servants, whites will probably be the first to go
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President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration is planning to lay off 30 000 public servants in the next three years as part of the government’s cost-cutting measures.
The move is likely to put Ramaphosa on a collision cause with labour federation Cosatu, which supported his bid to become the ANC president in December.
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More and more unqualified local government officials are being hunted down, while qualified whites sits on the sidewalk
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Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene has written to National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete with amendments to municipal regulations, allowing a new, shorter time limit for local government officials to get the necessary qualifications to do their jobs.
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Democratic Alliance tests SABC impartiality claim
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The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) knew President Cyril Ramaphosa’s late night announcement on land expropriation without compensation was in his capacity as ANC president and not as president of the republic, according to the Democratic Alliance (DA).
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Democratic Alliance leaders pick sides amid confusion over party’s decision to ditch BEE
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The factional war within the Democratic Alliance (DA) has intensified, this time over the party’s position to dump what it calls a “disastrous” broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) policy.
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DA – Mmusi Maimane – officially confirms Patricia De Lille resignation
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Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane has announced the resignation of Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille effective October 31 after an agreement was reached.
“Mayor Patricia de Lille has agreed to resign as mayor of Cape Town effective October 31,” Maimane said on Sunday.
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Well this is not new:- ANC KZN defends Zuma for BLF comments
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The leadership of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal believes the party should not act against former president Jacob Zuma over his endorsement of Black First Land First (BLF) outside court last weekend.
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Mmusi Maimane calls for urgent parliamentary sitting after ANC ‘jumped the gun’ on land
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Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane has written to National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete to convene an urgent parliamentary sitting to debate the ANC’s “deliberate undermining” of the process to amend the Constitution on land.
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