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Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality’s financial mismanagement under Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni’s leadership – including R87 million in unauthorised expenditure – initiated the Hawks’ now-finalised fraud and corruption investigation into a R2.5 million tender.
This consumer told his bank’s insurance arm in early November that he’d switched to another insurer and provided proof of the new policy, but the bank debited him in December and failed to refund him as promised. Wendy Knowler took up his case.
Veteran journalist and political editor, Paddy Harper, has died. In a statement on Saturday afternoon, his family said: “It’s with much sadness and heartbreak that the family of William Harper, known to the world as Paddy Harper, announces his passing away.”
The little more than a month after President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the National Health Insurance Act into law in May last year, the ANC entered into a government of national unity following a large drop in their share of the vote in South Africa’s 2024 elections.
There are those who use wearable devices to fake their exercise habits in order to score activity-linked benefits with their medical schemes, but the schemes have taken steps to ensure that the cheaters don’t prosper, writes Wendy Knowler.
Parks Tau, the minister of Trade, Industry, and Competition, said that the government’s new R100-billion transformation fund idea, which is not an official policy proposal at this stage, would not raise money by imposing new obligations on firms.
Reinet says discussions have taken place with fund managers and its investee companies on how geopolitical uncertainty might impact the value of its underlying investments or cause volatility in financial markets, interest rates and inflation.
Mossel Bay magistrate Ezra Morrison has opened a criminal case against News24’s Karyn Maughan and Kelly Anderson following a series of articles exposing how she apparently ignored early warnings from experts that the boy now accused of Deveney Nel’s murder was ‘at high risk for offending’ and might need professional help.
As universities start registering students for the new academic year, the South African Union of Students has warned of a possible shutdown of the country’s 26 universities if issues raised with Minister of Higher Education Nobuhle Nkabane are not urgently resolved.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Expropriation Bill into law. It provides for expropriation of land with nil compensation. The law also provides for instances where expropriation with nil compensation may be appropriate in the public interest.