Author: staff
Nearly a year has passed since heavy rain and flooding devastated the Western Cape, but the R41 million the national government allocated to the Theewaterskloof municipality in Caledon for 24 disaster projects, remains unaccounted for.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office says it will process EFF leader Julius Malema’s letter requesting to have a Special Investigation Unit investigation (SIU) report on the National Treasury’s Integrated Financial Management Systems tender made public.
After a reportedly heated Cabinet meeting in which the parties represented in the government of national unity failed to agree on key policies, such as the National Health Insurance and the BELA Act, the “clearing house” committee will meet on Thursday to discuss the two contentious issues.
The testimony of a Crimes Against The State police officer, who escalated a frantic tip-off that the late Anti-Gang Unit detective Charl Kinnear was being pinged excessively, shows the police only got a warrant to investigate the claim the day after Kinnear was murdered.
After a reportedly heated Cabinet meeting in which the parties represented in the government of national unity failed to agree on key policies, such as the National Health Insurance and the Bela Act, the “clearing house” committee will meet on Thursday to discuss the two contentious issues.
Gilead Sciences, the maker of a twice-a-year anti-HIV injection, has approached South Africa’s medicine regulator to discuss how to get the shot registered locally as fast as possible in the country. Sahpra will have to work with the European Medicines Agency on this, as it’s severely understaffed and unable to review medicines speedily.
About 300 people on Sunday invaded a pit at Gemfields Group’s ruby mine in Mozambique, which accounts for about half the world’s supply of the stones, Executive Officer Sean Gilbertson said. Two people were shot and injured by police, he said.
The council of the University of Cape Town will be opposing a Western Cape High Court application brought by a senior academic who is challenging a resolution it passed in June on the armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups in Gaza.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office says it will process EFF leader Julius Malema’s letter requesting to have a Special Investigation Unit investigation report on the National Treasury’s Integrated Financial Management Systems (IFMS) tender made public.
South Africa is poised for a surge in initial public offerings and fund-raising activity as soon as next year, spurred by optimism that the continent’s biggest economy may be turning a corner after years of lackluster growth, said JPMorgan Chase & Co.