South Africans shouldn t be fooled by Mkhize s special leave whitewash - DA MP
9 June 2021 10:54 AM Mkhize special leave
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Early Breakfast host Africa Melane chats to DA MP and labour law expert Michael Bagraim about Minister Zweli Mkhize s special leave.
DA MP Michael Bagraim says special leave is not a legitimate labour law process
He says President Cyril Ramaphosa should suspend Health Minister Zweli Mkhize
The labour law expert suspects that the special leave announcement on Tuesday was politically orchestrated
A digitally edited image of President Cyril Ramaphosa s and Health Minister Zweli Mkhize s portrait pictures. Picture: PresidencyZA & Sethembiso Zulu/EWN
U.S. President Joe Biden has focused most of his energy in his first 100 days in office on taming the coronavirus pandemic on home soil.
But in this short, frantic period, he has made a few important gestures that have been welcomed in Africa.
On his first day in office, he halted the U.S.âs plan to exit the World Health Organization.
Bidenâs reversal of his predecessorâs controversial decision to withdraw from the global body was greeted with near-universal approval, especially from African health experts, who said it could portend a more equitable world order.
Biden also pledged an additional $2 billion to the COVAX facility, which aims to provide equitable vaccine access to poorer nations.
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Like the time President Donald Trump appeared to shove the prime minister of Montenegro at a NATO summit. Or when President Barack Obama got caught on a hot mic complaining to then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy about the prime minister of Israel, a key U.S. ally. Or when Russia s foreign minister awkwardly explained to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, on live TV, that the reset button she handed him actually read, in Russian, overcharge.