Finance Minister Tito Mboweni. Photo: Twitter/ @treasuryRSA
NATIONAL NEWS - The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and Finance Minister Tito Mboweni have become unlikely allies in a bid to salvage controversial broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) legislation which lets government automatically disqualify tender hopefuls whose businesses aren’t majority black-owned.
The Constitutional Court will on Tuesday hear a bid from Mboweni to overturn a November ruling from the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), setting aside the revised Preferential Procurement Regulations promulgated in 2017 and the race-based “pre-qualification” criteria they provide for.
The EFF has been admitted as an amicus curiae – or friend of the court – and in its papers agrees it believes the appellate court got it wrong.
Bernadette Wicks Mboweni and the EFF have repeatedly found themselves at odds over the years, with Floyd Shivambu, the EFF’s chief whip, this month calling the minister a drunkard . Finance Minister Tito Mboweni. Picture: Twitter/ @treasuryRSA
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and Finance Minister Tito Mboweni have become unlikely allies in a bid to salvage controversial broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) legislation which lets government automatically disqualify tender hopefuls whose businesses aren’t majority black-owned.
The Constitutional Court will on Tuesday hear a bid from Mboweni to overturn a November ruling from the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), setting aside the revised Preferential Procurement Regulations promulgated in 2017 and the race-based “pre-qualification” criteria they provide for.
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Enock Mpianzi s family legal representative says the parties reached an amicable agreement.
Mpianzi, 13, died while attending a Grade 8 orientation camp in January 2020.
Although a settlement has been reached, Mpianzi s father, Guy Intamba, says he is now waiting for the criminal case to get under way so that his son could get justice.
The Gauteng Department of Education and family of 13-year-old Enock Mpianzi, the Parktown Boys High School Grade 8 pupil who was swept away in the Crocodile River, have reached a settlement agreement, a year and four months after the tragedy.
The family s lawyer, Wikus Steyl, of Ian Levitt Attorneys, confirmed to News24 on Friday that a settlement on undisclosed terms was reached with the boy s family by all parties involved.
crimen injuria was brought against Lamprecht by Milner in July last year.
Lamprecht was prohibited from engaging in and attempting to engage in harassment of Milner by posting any pictures or videos to references of her on websites; all references and pictures of applicant and complainant and had to remove and delete from all websites and platforms within 48 hours of the order.
But he continued to post inflammatory material and incite violence even after he was served with the protection notice.
“This is a major milestone and is indicative of the court’s stance that they will not tolerate contempt of their court orders and will authorise the arrest of people who do so,” said Ian Levitt Attorneys acting on behalf of Zeifert.
The letter, from Ian Levitt Attorney’s and Conveyancers, was sent on Monday.
It said the continued ban of political gatherings was “arbitrary” and “irrational”.
The party highlighted that the current regulations constituted an unjustified limitation to sections 17 and 19 political rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
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“These lockdown regulations prohibit a political party from engaging in programmes and activities to hold government accountable for its actions and furthermore prohibit the campaigning of political programmes and activities in preparation of this year’s local government elections [which are likely to take place in November],” reads the letter.
The prohibition of political gatherings is illogical and irrational, specifically when one can gather at a public beach or swimming pool, but are criminalised when they gather to challenge government, to protest or assemble peacefully.