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President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the government will be rolling out an extensive screening and tracing programme all over the country for Covid-19.
Richard Calland examines how Cyril Ramaphosa stacks up in this time of extreme crisis, finding that early on he outshone Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Billionaire Johann Rupert said his R1-billion assistance will be available to all small businesses and their employees, and not only black-owned businesses.
Sol Kerzner died of cancer in his own bed, surrounded by his family, at his own home in the Kerzner Estate at Leeukoppie between Camps Bay and Constantia near Cape Town. He was 84.
The PIC commissioners repeat the Holomisa-invented oxymoron “legal corruption” he claims occurred during the founding of Harith – the result of lengthy processes which included being signed off by SA’s former finance minister Trevor Manuel.
Among the key areas of focus is the PIC’s purchase, for R4.3bn, of 29% in Ayo Technologies, a JSE-listed associate of Sekunjalo, the creation of medical doctor turned entrepreneur Iqbal Survé.
President Cyril Ramaphosa notched up a key victory in his long-running battle with the nation’s controversial anti-graft ombudsman, when the High Court overturned her finding that he’d misled lawmakers about a campaign donation.
In South Africa calls for the government not to go ahead with plans to change the constitution to allow for expropriation without compensation has been growing louder.
Last week US secretary of state Mike Pompeo warned that expropriation without compensation (EWC) would be ‘disastrous’ for South Africa and its people.
Raw sewage on potholed streets, piles of garbage on sidewalks and water and power shortages became routine in the South African municipality of Makana. Then something extraordinary happened that could change the face of local government politics.