South Africa: Mandela Day – Taking Action Against Poverty:
South Africa: Mandela Day – Taking Action Against Poverty:
Mandela Day has made a strategic shift towards better ensuring that its focus on making every day a Mandela Day has increased sustainability, reach and impact. Mandela Day has made a strategic shift towards better ensuring that its focus on making every day a Mandela Day has increased sustainability, reach and impact.
South Africa: 65 000 People Apply for 1 500 JMPD Jobs – IFP Blames Government:
The fact that 65 000 people applied for 1 500 Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department trainee positions shows the youth are desperate for decent jobs, the Inkatha Freedom Party said on Wednesday. Unemployment figures would continue rising if government continued to ignore its responsibility toward South Africans, in particular the youth, national chairperson Blessed Gwala said in a statement.
Now the real fight against e-tolls starts – Outa:
Johannesburg – The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse has taken its challenge against the e-toll system to the next level, serving the South African National Roads Agency Limited with responses to the summonses issued against Outa members for outstanding e-toll payments. One in particular, a summons against Thandanani Truckers and Hauliers for R402 841.62 in unpaid e-toll fees incurred between January 2014 and August 2015, is being heard in the Pretoria High Court and will effectively become a test case for the e-toll concept, since it will be the first time that a judge will hear both sides of the argument and then make a ruling based on the merits of the case.
South African protests over jobs, housing spread to capital:
Protesters seeking jobs and better housing clashed with police for the third straight day in parts of the economic hub of Johannesburg and spread to the capital Pretoria, piling pressure on a government faced with weak economic growth. Unrest dubbed “service delivery protests” has mounted, boding ill for President Jacob Zuma's administration at a time when he is under pressure over a cabinet reshuffle that triggered credit downgrades.
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