DA leader Helen Zille will be in Pretoria on Thursday for the deadline of the handing over of the so-called “spy tapes”.

Democratic Alliance supporters were expected to gather outside the High Court in Pretoria at noon, where Zille would announce the status of the handover.

She would be accompanied by DA Gauteng leader John Moodey, Gauteng north chairman Solly Msimanga and national spokespeople Marius Redelinghuys and Phumzile van Damme.

Last week the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled that within five days the National Prosecuting Authority had to comply with a previous order, in an application brought by the DA, to release the tapes. President Jacob Zuma had opposed the move.

The recordings, internal memoranda, reports and minutes of meetings dealing with the contents of the recordings had to be provided. Conversations on the recordings were cited as a reason to drop fraud and corruption charges against Zuma, shortly before he was sworn in as president in 2009.

The tapes allegedly reveal collusion between the former heads of the Directorate of Special Operations, the now defunct Scorpions, Leonard McCarthy, and the NPA’s former head Bulelani Ngcuka, to manipulate the prosecutorial process before the ANC’s Polokwane conference in 2007.

Zuma was elected ANC president at the conference. At the time, acting NPA boss Mokotedi Mpshe said they showed there was a political conspiracy against Zuma and so the case could not continue.

-Sapa

The members of the blue light gang that were involved in a massive shoot-out with the police on Tuesday were under the Hawks surveillance for a long time prior to the shooting.
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Johannesburg – Trade union Solidarity will brief media on Thursday on a new court bid to force the SA Police Service to consult with the trade union on its affirmative action plan.

The union intends to approach the Labour Court. This comes after the Constitutional Court’s ruling on Tuesday in favour of SAPS and against former police member Renate Barnard regarding the police’s application of affirmative action.

The court on Tuesday set aside an order of the Supreme Court of Appeal that the SAPS discriminated against Barnard by not promoting her.

Acting Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke said in his majority judgment that the SAPS employment equity plan was not challenged.

The court found the plan was lawfully and rationally implemented by the police commissioner in the matter concerning Barnard.

Barnard’s affirmative action case goes back to 2005 when she applied for the post of lieutenant-colonel, which was superintendent according to the old rankings, for the first time.

She twice applied unsuccessfully for promotion to superintendent within the police’s national evaluation services, which deals with complaints by the public and public officials about police services.

Despite recommendations by an interview panel and her divisional commissioner, the national police commissioner did not appoint her to the position on the basis that racial representation at the level of superintendent would be negatively affected.

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The Northern Cape Police in partnership with departments of Agriculture, Home Affairs adopted a multi-faceted approach in the execution of the Operation Siza Nani (Operation Help One Another).

The Operation kicked started on the 01 August, with the purpose of raising awareness regarding the serious crimes such as stock theft more particularly in the rural areas. During the operation the farmers were talked to with matters pertaining to stock theft legislation and the livestock were brand marked and tattooed.

“The role of the Department of Home Affairs in the Operation Siza Nani it is to verify the details of the farm employees during farm visits. The details which will be verified are the identity documents and passports of the employees in the farms. This will be in an endeavor to check if the employees are not illegal immigrants who are employed in the farms” lieutenant Sergio Kock said.

Farmers are encouraged to continue to brand mark their livestock as this will reduce the rate of stock theft in the Northern Cape Province.

The farmers who are ignoring the call to brand mark and tattoo their livestock shall be issued with fines, if they are found not complied with the prescripts of the legislation, which regulates the livestock brand marking and tattooing thereof. 

“The cooperation amongst the relevant role players shall be heightened and all the hot spots will be monitored. We will continue to embark on road blocks, cross borders operations, to combat the illegal transportation of livestock and stock theft” he said. 

Kock said since the operation kick started, the farmers in De Aar Cluster and Hartswater clusters welcomed the Operation Siza Nani, with its content of education and awareness regarding livestock brand marking and tattooing of the livestock. The operation is on-going.

Operation Siza Nani will be held in Kuruman Cluster in the month of October 2014.

The farmers are encouraged to brand mark and tattoo their livestock.
-TDN
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The Northern Cape Police in partnership with departments of Agriculture, Home Affairs adopted a multi-faceted approach in the execution of the Operation Siza Nani (Operation Help One Another).

The Operation kicked started on the 01 August, with the purpose of raising awareness regarding the serious crimes such as stock theft more particularly in the rural areas. During the operation the farmers were talked to with matters pertaining to stock theft legislation and the livestock were brand marked and tattooed.

“The role of the Department of Home Affairs in the Operation Siza Nani it is to verify the details of the farm employees during farm visits. The details which will be verified are the identity documents and passports of the employees in the farms. This will be in an endeavor to check if the employees are not illegal immigrants who are employed in the farms” lieutenant Sergio Kock said.

Farmers are encouraged to continue to brand mark their livestock as this will reduce the rate of stock theft in the Northern Cape Province.

The farmers who are ignoring the call to brand mark and tattoo their livestock shall be issued with fines, if they are found not complied with the prescripts of the legislation, which regulates the livestock brand marking and tattooing thereof. 

“The cooperation amongst the relevant role players shall be heightened and all the hot spots will be monitored. We will continue to embark on road blocks, cross borders operations, to combat the illegal transportation of livestock and stock theft” he said. 

Kock said since the operation kick started, the farmers in De Aar Cluster and Hartswater clusters welcomed the Operation Siza Nani, with its content of education and awareness regarding livestock brand marking and tattooing of the livestock. The operation is on-going.

Operation Siza Nani will be held in Kuruman Cluster in the month of October 2014.

The farmers are encouraged to brand mark and tattoo their livestock.
-TDN
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