JOHANNESBURG – Eskom has confirmed all but three of the top 20 defaulting municipalities have now settled their debt with the utility.
Earlier this year, the utility announced that it would start cutting electricity for up to eight hours per day in areas that still owed it money.
At the moment, only three municipalities face the risk of these extensive electricity cuts from 5 June.
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JOHANNESBURG – Justice Minister Michael Masutha will now study the judgment which set aside his ruling in January not to grant Clive Derby-Lewis medical parole.
Judge Selby Baqwa ruled this morning that Masutha’s decision not to grant medical parole to Derby-Lewis was unfair.
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CAPE TOWN – Opposition parties in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality said if newly-elected mayor Danny Jordaan is implicated in the Fifa corruption scandal, he will have to step down.
Jordaan, who is South African Football Association (SAFA) president, was sworn in as the Port Elizabeth Council’s mayor on Thursday just a day after US authorities revealed that bribes were paid to secure the hosting of the 2010 World Cup event in South Africa.
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JOHANNESBURG – Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has hit back at Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko’s Nkandla report, saying it’s riddled with misstatements, inaccuracies, incomplete information, innuendos and false accusations.
The minister was asked to determine whether all the installations at President Jacob Zuma’s home in Nkandla were needed for security after Madonsela questioned some of them, including the cattle kraal, amphitheater and fire pool.
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JOHANNESBURG – Former Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko has finally concluded her studies at Harvard University and was among the graduates at the two-day ceremony today.
Mazibuko left South African politics to chase her dream of pursuing higher profile careers for a year at the world renowned university.
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Johannesburg – The South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) on Tuesday criticised the Joburg metro police department (JMPD) for allegedly harassing and threatening two journalists.
JMPD spokesman Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar. Photo: Nicholas Thabo Tau.
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eNCA cameraman Pierre le Roux and Beeld photographer Cornel van Heerden were filming and taking photographs of JMPD officers arresting an alleged drunk driver outside the high court in Joburg.
Two officers told the journalists they had no right to film and ordered them to stop, according to Sanef.
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The village of Setlhwatlhwe in Ratlou will on May 29 and 30 host the final leg of the Africa Month celebrations organised by the Department of Culture, Arts and Traditional Affairs.
This follows a series of events across the Province, including visits to schools, rural communities and a public lecture.
Key activities at the Setlhwatlhwe event are displays of African artefacts, African cuisine and an African attire competition. Prizes will be given to the winners.
There will also be discussions around being African and the culture of the continent. As was the case with most of the month’s events, attendants will be educated on national symbols such as the national flag and the anthems of both South Africa and the African Union, Let Us All Unite And Celebrate Together.
“We want to continue to raise awareness among members of the public about the importance of Africa Day and Africa Month,” said MEC Modise.
“This will help us develop a culture of tolerance of diverse cultures, languages and religions. We need to open up space for dialogue on challenges facing African cultural development.”
The May 29 event will be held at the Setlhwatlhwe Heritage Site and the following day’s proceedings will be held at the local community hall.
The theme for this year’s Africa Month is “We are Africa”, – ‘Opening the doors of learning and culture from Cape to Cairo’.
Details are as follows:
Date: 29 and 30 May 2015
Venue: Setlhwatlhwe Heritage Site and Community Hall
Time: 09:00
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Cape Town – There was nothing untoward with South Africa’s hosting of the World Cup.
Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe File photo: Linda Mthombeni.
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This is according to Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe, who told journalists on Thursday morning that a “reputed audit firm Ernst & Young” audited the 2010 World Cup when it ended and gave South Africa a clean audit.
On Wednesday South Africa’s boast of hosting the best ever World Cup soccer was tarnished by claims that a $10 million bribe was paid to secure it.
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European football’s governing body Uefa has called for Fifa presidential election to be postponed in the wake of dawn arrests at Fifa’s official hotel in Zurich over corruption charges
European football’s governing body Uefa has called for Fifa presidential election to be postponed in the wake of dawn arrests at Fifa’s official hotel. Photo by: Anja Niedringhaus/AP.
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The body’s top officials have threatened to boycott Fifa’s congress altogether after they held an emergency meeting in Warsaw prior to last night’s Europa League final.
They concluded Uefa’s preferred candidate, Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein, would not be able to prevent the Fifa president Sepp Blatter’s re-election even after yesterday’s extraordinary developments.
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The Department of Local Government and Human Settlements in Bokone Bophirima, will host an engagement session with municipalities throughout the province with the purpose of assessing the implementation of the local government back-to-basics programme and support given to municipalities by other sector departments, i.e, Provincial Treasury, Water and sanitation and Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA).
The session will be attended by senior officials from national, provincial and local government and will be held as follows:
Date : 28 May 2015
Venue : Bonno lodge – Mahikeng (along Zeerust road)
Time : 09h30
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