Cape Town – Dodgy tenders, paying rent for vacant buildings and forking out millions for employees improperly fired are reportedly some of the findings in Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s as yet unreleased provisional report on parastatal Passenger Rail Agency of SA.
Some of her provisional findings in the report Missing Tracks, dated March 2015, were published in the Sunday Times.
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Mthatha – A 19-year-old stab victim died at his home in rural Dutywa while his family desperately tried to organise transport to take him to hospital, Eastern Cape police said on Sunday.
“The family was trying to… get a private vehicle. Unfortunately he died before the transport arrived,” said Captain Jackson Manatha.
“Here in the rural areas, we don’t have these ambulances… We make use of our own private transport. If you are going to wait for ambulances, you will wait for two hours,” said Manatha.
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Rustenburg – The women of Marikana will be mourning their loved ones instead of celebrating Women’s Day on Sunday, United Democratic Movement (UDM) leader Bantu Holomisa said on Sunday.
“Women of this part of the world [Marikana] were subjected to a painful experience of losing their only… hope for a meal. These women are now widows,” he told people gathered at Nkaneng informal settlement near Marikana.
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Johannesburg – A Gift of the Givers volunteer has detailed how he and two fellow South Africans were convinced they were going to die when a siege broke out at a Malian hotel in which they were staying.
“We thought that we were definitely going to die,” the volunteer said via a statement released by the humanitarian aid organisation.
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BY REGINALD KANYANE
The North West Provincial Legislature’s Portfolio Committee on Health and Social Development will hold a meeting with the MEC for the Department of Health, MEC Magome Masike including his senior officials at the Matlosana Local Municipality at 08h00.
The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the state of all health facilities that the committee conducted oversight visits at and were found to be in a state of corrosion.
Amongst those expected to form part of the meeting are the CEO’s and Board Chairpersons of affected facilities.
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Johannesburg – Four men were arrested by Johannesburg metro police on a charge of possession of illegal firearms on Thursday morning, Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said.
“An officer spotted a green Mercedes Benz driving recklessly on the N1 south, near William Nicol,” he told News24.
“He gave chase and made them pull over. This was around 09:35. He ordered all four occupants to get out and put their hands on top of the car.”
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Johannesburg – The EFF is taking President Jacob Zuma to court in its bid to have him repay some of the money spent on his private Nkandla home, the party said on Thursday.
“The case number [CCT143/15] of the #EFF application to the Constitutional Court to force Zuma to #PayBackTheMoney #Asijiki,” read a tweet from the EFF official account.
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Mbombela – A young Mpumalanga mother whose 18-month-old daughter died under mysterious circumstances has been found guilty of culpable homicide.
The accused, Nomcebo Mahlalela, 19, of Tsambokhulu Trust near Komatipoort, appeared in the Tonga Regional Court on Thursday.
Magistrate Edgar Moletsane told the court that the murder charge against Mahlalela was changed to culpable homicide when the State failed to produce evidence proving that she had deliberately strangled her baby, Faithful Masinga.
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Johannesburg – President Jacob Zuma emphasised the importance of unity in the ANC Women’s League (ANCWL) when he addressed their long-awaited conference on Thursday night.
Zuma called on delegates not to focus on the leadership battle, which had become a trend, but on policies affecting women.
“Why are we doing it? We are changing the organisation to be something else so when you come to [the] conference, the outcome is poorer because delegates are busy in the lobby sessions,” he said to loud claps and cheers.
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2015-08-06 22:33
Pretoria – Axed Prasa CEO Lucky Montana allegedly threw a brick at a journalist in Pretoria on Thursday night.
It left a dent in Rapport journalist Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s work car as he sped off, narrowly avoiding a head-on collision, he said.
“He flung the brick with what seemed to me the intention of getting it through the open passenger window, but because the car was already moving away, it hit the back left door.”
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