#SARSInquiry to focus on alleged Moyane ‘hitman’:
#SARSInquiry to focus on alleged Moyane ‘hitman’:
Johannesburg- The spotlight of the Nugent Commission's hearings will again focus on the controversial South African Revenue Service's human resources head, Luther Lebelo, and the law firm he allegedly used to purge senior staff members. Lebelo was on Monday due to make his second appearance before the commission, tasked to probe administration and governance at Sars following the appointment of now suspended commissioner Tom Moyane in September 2014.
Enterprising businesswoman manufacturing local nutritional food:
The company, which has a manufacturing plant in Hartbeespoort Dam and a warehouse in Roodepoort, produces and distributes moringa fortified nutritional products such as instant porridge, power shake formula and moringa tea, among others. JOHANNESBURG – The saying that a prophet is not without honour save in his own country seems true for enterprising businesswoman Makekele Somo.
Why the kingpins who looted SA may get off:
Scepticism is mounting that the alleged masterminds of South Africa's biggest-ever embezzlement of state funds will ever be held to account. A judicial commission set up to probe the looting, which ex-Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan estimates may have cost taxpayers more than R100bn, has been slowed by procedural issues and may need two years to finish.
Approval of Gautrain expansion ‘imminent’:
The National Transport Department was “almost about to approve” plans to expand and link up the Gautrain Hatfield Station in Pretoria with Lanseria Airport and through Randburg to link up with Soweto and the Johannesburg business district. Dikgang Moiloa, the Gauteng MEC for Human Settlements, confirmed this on Friday during a briefing to outline plans for the multibillion-rand strategic infrastructure project 7 , now chaired by Human Settlements Minister Nomaindia Mfeketo.
Jann Klose Reveals The Music Video For Latest Single “Love High”:
ASHEVILLE, NC, USA, October 21, 2018 / EINPresswire.com / — Watch the music video for “Love High” here: https://youtu.be/fX6R03ZMEbY The music video for Jann Klose's “Love High” – the second single off his latest studio album “In Tandem” – came together after Jann reached out his friend, collaborator, and Tony Award winning choreographer, Yo-EL Cassell. Now a professor at Boston University, Yo-EL connected Jann with recent BU graduates Director/Producer Klaudyna Astramowicz and Director of Photography Wyatt Ward.
LGBT History Month – October 21: Saul Levin:
“It is our firm stance that homosexuality is not a mental disorder, a position we have maintained since 1973, when homosexuality was rightly removed from the DSM.” Saul Levin is the first openly gay CEO and medical director of the American Psychiatric Association .
Maimane blames ‘captured and corrupt’ government for current recession:
Mismanagement and bad policy are responsible for the current recession in South Africa, not global forces, Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane said on Sunday. The economy went into a recession for the first time in almost a decade.
Photographer Innocent Mukweli Wants Us To See A Different Africa Through His Lens:
Seven years ago, a group of young photographers from Soweto grew weary of the negative depictions that were being used to portray their neighborhood in the media. This narrative was completely different than the world that was playing out around them, and they had had enough.
In South Africa, a city plans to seize land in ‘test case’:
As South Africa's passionate debate over land redistribution grows, one city outside Johannesburg is preparing what the mayor calls a “test case” for the nation – the seizure of hundreds of acres of land from private owners, without paying for it, to build low-cost housing. Like other South African cities, Ekurhuleni faces a dire housing crunch, with some 600,000 of its nearly 4 million people living in “informal settlements” and a shortage of land to build homes.
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