A Germiston family is refusing to bury a body from the Nigerian church collapse, which was identified as their daughter.
On February 6 A C130 Hercules brought back 11 bodies from Nigeria; Among them, a body supposedly that of Patricia Mkhulisi.
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Acting Energy director-general Wolsey Barnard on Tuesday said it would take 20 months for the Eskom War Room committee to return South Africa to normality. Barnard was speaking at the African Energy Indaba in the place of Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson.
“Big Business is giving us big support,” he told delegates. “Now, everyone in the country needs to pull their weight.”
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As of April, eligible citizens will be able to apply for their Smart ID Cards at the Home Affair’s kiosks in their nearest bank, Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Tuesday.
The Minister said this when he led a briefing by government’s Governance and Administration Cluster at the Imbizo Media Centre in Parliament on Tuesday.
The Minister said this would be a pilot project.
The Minister said to date, two banks – FNB and Standard Bank – have signed a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Home Affairs for the pilot project.
Nedbank has indicated its willingness to sign on the dotted line and Minister Gigaba hopes Absa will also join the partnership.
He said his department had also approached the South African Post Office with the aim of reaching an agreement on how some of its infrastructure could be used as well.
“There are several new innovations that are going to be introduced by the department in the course of this and the next financial years to assist South Africans in applying for their Smart ID Cards and passports in an extremely convenient way.
“That is why the President announced that we will soon be able to apply for our Smart ID Cards at our bank…
“At the moment there are three banks that have come on board and we have signed a memorandum of understanding to start a pilot process with them – so that a person can … go to the Home Affairs kiosk in the bank, submit all their applications, take their biometric photograph, automated fingerprint and their electronic signature and that is compiled to an electronic package and deposited to Home Affairs,” he said.
The Minister said the innovation would help ease the queues at Home Affairs’ 403 offices nationwide, while delivering a crucial service to citizens quicker, efficiently and professionally.
Those that are eligible to apply are pensioners older than 60 years or 16 year-olds.
Meanwhile, the Minister said government had a massive task to ensure that over 38 million citizens with green-coded ID books are converted to Smart ID Cards.
“To date we have issued over one million Smart ID Cards, in less than a year. We are confident of reaching the target of 1.6 million cards by the end of the 2014/15 financial year,” he said.
– SAnews.gov.za
DA parliamentary leader Mmusi Maimane has labelled President Jacob Zuma a broken man presiding over a broken society.
In a hard hitting speech delivered during the debate on the state of the nation address, Maimane accused Zuma of breaking Parliament last week when security personnel were deployed to strong-arm EFF MPs demanding to know when he would pay back the money spent on non-security upgrades at his Nkandla residence.
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North West- The North West Provincial Legislature’s Portfolio Committee on Local Government and Human Settlements will hold oversight meetings with municipalities under Bojanala District Municipality at Rustenburg Local Municipal Chamber on Wednesday at 09h00.
The municipalities will be presenting their Annual Reports 2012/13.
The meetings are scheduled as follows;
Municipality
Time: 09H00
Venue: Moretele Local Municipality
Rustenburg Local Municipal Chamber
Rustenburg Local Municipality
12h00
Bojanala District Municipality
15h00
The meetings will be attended by the Executive Mayors, Members of the Municipal Councils and Municipal Public Accounts Committees, Municipal Managers including senior management of municipalities. Auditor General’s office will also be present.
-TDN
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Kingston Nkhatha will line up for SuperSport United against his old team Kaizer Chiefs in the Absa Premiership tonight, expecting to hear more of the booing that marred his time at Naturena.
The Zimbabwean, who joined Matsatsantsa during the January transfer window, joined Chiefs in 2012 from Black Leopards and had a torrid time with club supporters.
On one occasion Chiefs coach Stuart Baxter labeled the boo-boys ‘idiots’ and questioned his own future in Naturena.
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