ANC: DA has history of using people, De Lille casualty of own making: The DA placed Patricia De Lille and JP Smith on special leave, meaning neither of them will be able to attend party caucus meetings or interact with caucus members. ……
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Finance Committee plans to adopt resolution to have SAA AGM in Nov: According to legal advice provided to the committee on Tuesday, Dudu Myeni’s tenure as board chairperson until an AGM is held, is legal. ……
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Carrim: Risk of losing operating licence not enough to punish auditors: Yunus Carrim asked the regulator’s Chief Executive Bernard Agulhas whether he was allowed to refer cases for prosecution. ……
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Apleni’s legal team to challenge Mkhize’s claims over suspension: Apleni’s attorney SJ Thema says they have filed a supplementary affidavit specifically to deal with Minister Hlengiwe Mkhize’s utterances that he is unstable and delusional. ……
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Mbalula announces police change of guard after Marikana shootings: A new station commander has been appointed and at least 40 extra police officers will be brought to Philippi East police station to crack down on the murders that left 18 people dead in the Marikana informal settlement over the past 10 days, Police Minister Fikile Mbalula said on Tuesday. Police have also arrested five people whom they believe are the “kingpins” in the ongoing shootings that led to about 300 people storming the police station on Saturday to demand action. Speaking at the hall of Vuyiseka Senior Secondary School following a private meeting inside the police station, Mbalula said that officers were going to be combative, and increase their policing in the area. He…
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Man, 67, on his way to collect pension killed in gang shooting: A 67-year-old man on his way to collect his pension has been shot and killed after he was caught in what is believed to be gang-related crossfire. ……
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Call for urgent reopening of colleges for teachers: The SA Council for Educators (SACE) and the South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) are calling for the swift reopening of teachers’ training colleges to increase the supply of teachers in public schools. This comes as Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said her department…
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Fix auditing crisis — Manuel: Former finance minister Trevor Manuel said the KPMG saga was a crisis for the audit profession and the economy could not afford a loss of trust in the assurance that auditors provide. "We need to turn to the profession and say ‘you need a healing process’. This is a crisis for us and we need to ensure we don’t have a further deterioration in trust," Manuel said at…
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Top cop poser for Tshwane: Pretoria – The hunt for the capital’s chief of police has been thrown into a tailspin after it emerged that one of the five shortlisted candidates was on suspension for alleged misconduct. Ugeshni Naidoo, an employee at the City of Ekurhuleni, was suspended for allegedly issuing a fraudulent traffic diploma to head of the crime prevention unit at the Tshwane Metro Police Department, Johanna Estresia “Trish” Armstrong, in 2006. Naidoo allegedly issued a diploma under a badge of the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department Training Academy when it was not yet accredited by the Road Traffic Management Corporation. She was a director of the training academy at the time. Armstrong was meanwhile…
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‘Auntie Pat has become a thorn in the flesh for many’: Cape Town – Controversial senior DA City of Cape Town councillor JP Smith says he intends to attend the party’s Western Cape congress this weekend despite his suspension from all party activities, alongside Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille. Smith has been nominated as a deputy provincial chairperson, in an election to find a successor to De Lille, who quit the position earlier this year. “We’re trying to determine whether we’ll be allowed at the Congress. If…
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