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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