North West health boss Thabo Lekalakala is still in his job‚ despite a recommendation by the provincial legislature that he be suspended immediately for his role in a premature R30-million payment to a Gupta-linked company.
Lekalakala is so far the only man who may be taking the fall for the multi-million rand advance payment to Mediosa‚ a company supplying mobile clinics
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A farmer from Lichtenburg in the North West has been rushed to hospital in Rustenburg after being attacked and robbed on Sunday 25 February 2018.
Lt. Col Amanda Funani, the police spokesperson said that Dirk(69) and his wife Lettie Pretorius (56) had just returned from church at 12:00 when they were attacked by the three suspects.
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JOHANNESBURG – The North West ANC Youth League (ANCYL) says Premier Supra Mahumapelo should not be involved in an investigation into the misappropriation of funds at the health department.
The department has been plagued by fraud and corruption some of which is related to Gupta linked Mediosa company and its multi million contract.
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Tension has returned to Lichtenburg after a local businessman Jaco du Plooy, who allegedly shot dead a 15-year-old boy last week, was granted R20 000 bail this morning. Several businesses were closed as a large group of community members ran through the farming North West town. They were heading from Lichtenburg’s magistrates’ court to Blydeville..
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The SABC reports that construction work for a monument of President Jacob Zuma is under way at the site where Zuma and other struggle comrades were arrested while trying to flee to Botswana. The SABC quoted the EFF’s Alfred Motsi, an opposition leader in North West, as saying that he and his party remain committed..
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The small farming town of Coligny, North West, resembled a war zone on Tuesday afternoon with large clouds of smoke billowing from different parts of town. The main road linking Coligny and Lichtenburg remained closed as protesters who barricaded roads with burning tires and rubble clashed with police officers. All entry points into town were..
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