Posts tagged with 'Parliament'

 

Gigaba: SA To Raise Revenue By R15bn In 2018’s Budget To Curb Debt

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South Africa will implement spending cuts of R25 billion rand and raise revenue by R15 billion in next year’s budget to contain growing debt, Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba told Parliament on Wednesday. Gigaba said the extra R40 billion, or 0.8% of GDP, would be used to tackle rising public debt which otherwise could balloon beyond..
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Sassa and Sapo agreement date pushed back yet again

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The striking of the elusive deal between the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) and the South African Post Office (Sapo) has been pushed back yet again. MP’s at a joint meeting in Parliament on Tuesday heard that an offer to the Post Office to build an integrated IT payment system for a new “hybrid”..
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South Africa is held hostage to the toxic politics of the ANC

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If it showed anything, the recent medium-term budget policy statement has proven that South Africa does not have a government capable of dealing honestly and head on with the developmental crisis that the country finds itself in. It will not have such a government for some time, at least not until the 2019 general election..
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Cabinet Ministers set for 4% pay rise as reward for tanking the economy

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Unfortunately, it’s not April Fool’s Day. We are deadly serious when we tell you that political heavyweights who’ve overseen a slump in the South African economy are set to receive a 4% pay rise. In a year of recession, junk-status and a declared tax shortfall of R50bn, it seems like our top brass have found..
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Makhosi Khoza, African National Congress MP, hits back at claims that she ‘insulted’ ANC colleagues.

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Makhosi Khoza has denied she insulted ANC colleagues following a boycott of a meeting she chaired last week, saying she was responding to their initial taunts. Khoza was sacked as chairperson of the portfolio committee on public service and administration last Thursday, August 17, after ANC MPs wrote a letter demanding she be removed two..
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It is OK to abuse tax money as long as you beat a ‘deadline’ when a new law comes into effect

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Public officials who abused taxpayers’ money to get themselves government tenders amounting to R48 million are legally off the hook. More than 200 state employees, who were reported to management for dodgy dealings, couldn’t be touched because a new law hadn’t come into effect yet. And government can’t do anything about it, according to Eugene..
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Mugabe declared that Zimbabwe most developed country after SA at the World Economic Forum on Africa

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President Robert Mugabe has told the world that his country is the second most developed in Africa in comments that are likely to befuddle suffering Zimbabweans. The Zimbabwean leader is out in South Africa’s port city of Durban, venue for the World Economic Forum on Africa. Reports from the international convention say President Mugabe took..
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Intelligence Report: Zuma – It is mine and you can’t have it

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President Jacob Zuma has refused to urgently furnish the DA with documents, including the so-called intelligence report, on which he allegedly based his decision to fire former Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan and his deputy, Mcebisi Jonas. The DA will next week turn to the High Court in Pretoria in a bid to compel Zuma..
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Nuclear deal ruled as unlawful and unconstitutional: Learn all about the dark secrets of this shady deal

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The Western Cape High Court ruled on Wednesday that the South African government’s nuclear agreements with Russia, Korea and the US were unlawful and unconstitutional. In a landmark ruling, the Court also scrapped the South African government’s decision to buy about eight nuclear power stations — 9600MW of nuclear power. This decision was first gazetted..
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The True Reason behind the sacking of Gordan and what will happen next

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What explains the allegedly irrational decisions taken by the South African government over recent days? Two explanations suggest themselves. The first is that the decisions were not irrational, but part of a calculated power-play designed to further entrench the Zuma-aligned faction of the African National Congress (ANC). The second is that Mr Zuma took the..
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