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Wed, 07 Jul 2021 05:28:27 GMT
Intepol Considers Red Notice for Jacob Zuma's Allies, the Guptas
[Nation] The net around the Gupta brothers, business associates of former South African President Jacob Zuma, is tightening after South African authorities said that Interpol is mulling the issuance of red notices for the duo and their wives over all...

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 04:44:02 GMT
Zuma Is a 'Recalcitrant, Deliberately Defiant Litigant' Who Must Be Arrested, High Court Told
[Daily Maverick] Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi has told the High Court in Pietermaritzburg that Jacob Zuma must be arrested before the clock strikes midnight on Wednesday, 7 July.

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:10:32 GMT
There Is No Right to Carry a Gun Under Our Constitution
[GroundUp] Much of the debate on the Draft Firearms Control Amendment Bill has focused on the so-called "right" to have a gun for self-defence. There is no right to carry a gun for self-defence under our Constitution.

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:05:49 GMT
Water Shortages in Gauteng Amid Pump Station Explosion
[SAnews.gov.za] The City of Ekurhuleni has warned residents and businesses in various parts of the metro of water supply interruptions after a Rand Water pump exploded on Sunday.

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 08:57:32 GMT
South African Citizens Are Gatvol of ANC Corruption and Misrule
[Daily Maverick] Our country is being sold to the highest bidder. It is the poor and Covid-affected citizens of South Africa who are footing the bill for corruption. When will it end? Is there even a possibility of an end if the governing party conti...

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 08:57:19 GMT
SA Records 15,501 New Covid-19 Cases, 457 Deaths
[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa has recorded 15 501 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 090 909.

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 08:56:02 GMT
Saica to Train SARS Staff
[SAnews.gov.za] In an effort to build capacity in the South African Revenue Services (SARS), the revenue collector has entered into a partnership with the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) to meet its skills demand.

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 08:52:13 GMT
EOH Boss Says Company Has Done Enough to Make Govt Ban Unlikely
[Daily Maverick] There is a thin-to-no chance that EOH will be banned from doing business with government, its chief executive officer Stephen van Coller told the Business Maverick on Tuesday, just as the firm's stock price took a hit after reports i...

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 08:32:22 GMT
CEO Outlines Plans to Address Prasa Challenges
[SAnews.gov.za] With the challenges facing the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA), the agency's CEO, Zolani Matthews, has affirmed his commitment to building capacity for the organisation to deliver on its mandate, resume services, moderni...

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 06:41:18 GMT
Healthcare in South Africa - How Inequity Is Contributing to Inefficiency
[The Conversation Africa] South Africa has a two-tiered, and highly unequal, healthcare system. The public sector is state-funded and caters to the majority - 71% - of the population. The private sector is largely funded through individual contributi...

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 06:38:31 GMT
Jacob Zuma - When Did Erstwhile Revolutionary Lose His Way?
[The Conversation Africa] It's the small crimes that bring you down. Al Capone went merrily on his murdering way until the FBI nailed him for tax evasion. Richard Nixon seemed immune to the consequences of lying about Vietnam, Cambodia and Chile but ...

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:59:56 GMT
Mobile Clinics and Loudhailers - Getting People in Rural Areas Vaccinated
[Daily Maverick] Better communication and access to vaccination sites in rural areas are concerns in Bitou Municipality as the vaccination process continues for the elderly.

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:43:54 GMT
Suspended Chief Magistrate and Ex-Deputy Minister Tell Commission That Bosasa Security Upgrades Were 'Shoddy'
[Daily Maverick] Desmond Nair, the suspended Pretoria chief magistrate, has told the Zondo Commission that the camera system installed at his home by a Bosasa employee was 'shoddy'. And Thabang Makwetla, former deputy minister of justice and correcti...

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 14:50:32 GMT
SANEF Condemns the Detention, Assault and Torture of Journalists in eSwatini.
[SANEF] The South African National Editors' Forum calls on President Cyril Ramaphosa and his regional counterparts to urgently demand that the government of Eswatini adhere to SADC media Freedom protocols

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 12:34:56 GMT
Waheeda Amien Appointed to Advisory Committee On Matrimonial Property Law
[UCT] Associate Professor Waheeda Amien, an academic in the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Faculty of Law, has been selected to serve as a member of the South African Law Reform Commission's (SALRC) Advisory Committee on the Review of Aspects of Mat...

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 11:16:36 GMT
Trade, Industry and Competition Hosts Pricing Regulations Dialogue, 7 Jul
[Govt of SA] The pricing regulations and other related matters on prices will come under the spotlight during the online stakeholders' dialogue on pricing regulations and other related matters on prices webinar that will be hosted by the Department o...

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 09:23:23 GMT
Court Dismisses Observatory Occupants Application Against City of Cape Town
[GroundUp] A group of people living on property formerly leased to the South African National Circus School in Observatory, Cape Town, have lost a court bid to have some details of the City of Cape Town's housing report excluded from the record. The ...

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 09:22:18 GMT
Protesters Demanding Water Stone Cars in Dunoon
[GroundUp] Furious residents from Zwelitsha informal settlement in Dunoon near Milnerton, who have been without running water for three weeks, stoned cars and blocked Malibongwe Drive with building rubble and trash on Monday morning .

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 09:10:32 GMT
Police Minister and SAPS Chief Back Down On Arresting Jacob Zuma, Citing Ongoing Litigation
[Daily Maverick] Police Minister Bheki Cele and SAPS boss Khehla Sitole have decided to effectively flout the Constitutional Court order to take all reasonable and necessary steps to arrest ex-president Jacob Zuma by Wednesday, if he does not hand hi...

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 13:29:03 GMT
'When Will It End? I Wish It Would Happen Tomorrow' - Gauteng GP on Covid-19
[spotlight] Dr Yakub Essack's phone is on silent - a luxury for the Gauteng GP. Ever since the third wave of Coronavirus smashed into Gauteng this winter, the phone has been a permanently bleeping fixture in his hand.

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 08:34:17 GMT
Nkandla Gathering Amounts to a Bonanza of Criminality - Arrests Must Follow
[Daily Maverick] You need most of the fingers on both hands to count the laws broken as a result of former president Jacob Zuma's grandstanding at Nkandla. But police could be wise not to act just yet -- as long as when they do, they target those mos...

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:06:36 GMT
Management Shake-Up - Glencore Appoints Mining Veteran Kalidas Madhavpeddi As Chairman
[Daily Maverick] Commodities colossus Glencore just got a new chairman - mining veteran Kalidas Madhavpeddi will replace Tony Hayward as at the end of July. The new management team is tasked with greening Glencore against the backdrop of sticky chall...

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:06:13 GMT
Thembisile Patekile Picks Up the Somewhat Poisoned Police Chalice of Western Cape Commissioner
[Daily Maverick] The top-cop seat has courted controversy for years, with words including 'corrupt' and 'cutthroat' bandied about. Now a new, permanent provincial commissioner has been appointed, against a backdrop of intense cop infighting.

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:02:54 GMT
Top Cop Jeremy Vearey Turns to High Court After Security Detail Terminated
[Daily Maverick] 'It cannot be excluded that the purpose of withdrawing my protection is to discourage me from testifying in high-profile criminal matters scheduled to take place as a result of my investigations,' says veteran policeman.

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:43:36 GMT
Township Transition Models Can Create Beautiful and Highly Functional Living Environments
[Daily Maverick] To meet the challenges of the climate crisis involves a fundamental rethink of how living and working spaces are designed and constructed. In addition, critical thinking is needed to address how services in South Africa are provided ...

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 11:21:38 GMT
Premier Alan Winde - Update On Covid-19 and Vaccines On 5 July
[Govt of SA] Update on the coronavirus and vaccines by Premier Alan Winde

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 09:07:05 GMT
The Rise and Fall of Jacob Zuma - From Veteran to Dark Post-Presidency Status
[East African] After the prison sentence was delivered on Tuesday, former South African president Jacob Zuma was given five days to surrender himself to the police and be handed over to a correctional facility. But his supporters, including the Umkho...

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 07:18:36 GMT
Jacarandas Are Flowering Earlier - Why It's a Warning Sign
[The Conversation Africa] In September each year, South Africa's Gauteng province turns purple. The cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria are well covered with trees - and jacarandas (Jacaranda mimosifolia), with their purple blooms in late spring, are...

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 16:39:23 GMT
Sanitation Worse Than Ever After Floods Hit Informal Settlement
[GroundUp] Residents of Ethembeni in Khayelitsha say they urgently need ten to 15 chemical toilets

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 15:05:32 GMT
'New Frame' Journalists Detained, Assaulted and Tortured by Security Forces in eSwatini
[New Frame] On Sunday 4 July 2021, two New Frame journalists, Magnificent Mndebele and Cebelihle Mbuyisa, who were on assignment in eSwatini were detained, assaulted and tortured by security forces.



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