Mpumalanga’s Department of Public Works this week sought to dismiss a report by the provincial treasury that uncovered financial mismanagement, inefficiency and management incompetence in the department.
Secretly taped conversations, sexual harassment claims and the dynamics of the Western Cape New National Party when it ruled the province are all part of a R2,8-million civil lawsuit against two former premiers by their former colleague.
South Africa’s CPIX inflation (headline inflation excluding mortgage costs) was up 8,5% year-on-year (y/y) for metro and other areas in April compared with a revised 9,3% (11,2%) in March, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Friday. CPIX was up 0,3% month-on-month (m/m).
Mpumalanga’s hardline health MEC Sibongile Manana may have finally met her match. The defiant former nurse has endured a string of sordid corruption scandals and last week stunned commentators by surviving an open revolt by African National Congress legislators who branded her department a national disgrace.
Sol Kerzner’s new venture into the Southern African game lodge industry has become embroiled in a bitter battle about whether Botswana needs to cull its elephants.
Kase Lawal is the son of a Nigerian politician and textile trader, who sent his child to study in the United States in 1972, where the youngster obtained a bachelor’s degree in chemistry.
Kase Lawal, the man who scooped South Africa’s Nigerian oil deal, was quoted in a 1999 interview as saying that to team up with local partners is the best way to navigate ”cumbersome” government bureaucracy. ”We add financing and technical expertise, and they provide political landscape experience, relationships and credibility.”
The Zimbabwean opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, is increasing the pressure on President Robert Mugabe by calling for a five-day national strike and urging the people to take to the streets.
Twenty men and six women were arrested in Braamfisherville on the West Rand near Johannesburg in the early hours of Friday in connection with the necklacing of two men in the area on Tuesday, police said.