South Africa:Security Agency Makes Second Attempt to Gag Controversial Book: [News24Wire] The State Security Agency has sent yet another cease and desist letter to get The Presidents Keepers withdrawn from bookshelves, but this time the letter was sent to its title editor Russel Martin. ……
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‘Minister Maswanganyi has failed to do his job’: The alliance says the minister failed on several occasions to listen to their grievances and says that he is solely to blame for Wednesday’s mass strike. ……
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Sars welcomes inquiry into its tax collection challenges: Sars head of Revenue and Research Randall Carolissen says they have a duty to account to taxpayers. ……
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‘I nearly died when I saw my daughter lying there’: Zimbi Phehla says her daughter died at the Takalani Home in Soweto just three days after being moved there. ……
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Gordon’s Bay fire damage to run into millions: There’s a long way to go for the people who lost their homes and livelihoods in the Gordon’s Bay Fire. ……
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KFC assault accused back in court: The five men accused of assaulting a couple at a KFC drive-through in Montana, are due to appear in the Pretoria North Magistrate’s Court. ……
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SSA makes second attempt to gag Jacques Pauw’s book: The State Security Agency has sent yet another cease and desist letter to get The Presidents Keepers withdrawn from bookshelves, but this time the letter was sent to its title editor Russel Martin. Authur and veteran journalist Jacques Pauw announced during the official launch of his book that the SSA’s cease and desist letter gave him two days to withdraw the book or he could face being…
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Phiyega bounces back: Johannesburg – Former national police boss Riah Phiyega is set to make a spectacular comeback as head of an anti-crime foundation linked to one of Cosatu’s biggest affiliates, police union Popcru. Phiyega, who is also a trustee in the SAPS medical aid scheme Polmed, will start her new role as the chief executive of the Safer South Africa Foundation later this month, its chairperson, Dr Tshenuwani Farisani, confirmed to Independent Media on Wednesday. Farisani said Phiyega would replace Tseliso Thipanyane, who left the foundation earlier this year. Phiyega was suspended by President Jacob Zuma in October 2015 after the findings of the commission of inquiry headed by retired judge Ian Farlam…
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#WaterCrisis: Desalination won’t be ready before Day Zero: Cape Town – Experts have warned Cape authorities that it will take at least four years to build large-scale desalination plants and are not the answer to their prayers to avoid “Day Zero”. The City of Cape Town, however, will continue with its plans to build desalination plants, which are expected to be completed in March, 2018. Dawid…
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No funds to repair #DurbanStorm damage: Durban – The national disaster kitty which sits at the Treasury is empty. There are no funds to bail out eThekwini to repair, replace and rehabilitate areas that were hit by the recent storm, according to DA MP Alf Lees. The national finance portfolio committee member told the Daily News that the contingency reserve for disaster was “exhausted” and that it was used to bail out SAA. KZN Premier Willies Mchunu had declared certain locations as disaster areas after the storm. He had told the Daily News that since making submissions to the National Treasury, the matter was out of the provincial government’s hands. The National…
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