Ladysmith Municipality struggles to recover R430m rates debt from consumers iol.co.za - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from iol.co.za Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper.
Just when it seemed South Africa would finally get new spectrum licensed for the first time in 15 years at a month-end auction, a legal spanner has brought it to a halt.
As I’ve tried to explain before, the issues are as clear as mud. Telkom, the third-largest operator, complained that the auction rules would favour the two biggest players, Vodacom and MTN, so it sued the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) last year.
Earlier this year, MTN also sued the regulator, concerned that the auction would deny it access to the crucial 3.5GHz range – some of which Telkom already has access to.
South African higher education s Groundhog Day dailymaverick.co.za - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymaverick.co.za Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Chair of the portfolio committee MP Faith Muthambi (GCIS)
Amathole District Municipality and Eastern Cape Cogta laid into each other during Parliament s Portfolio Committee of Cogta on Thursday over the municipality s financial mess.
Chair of the portfolio committee MP Faith Muthambi heard from ADM that Cogta was not supporting the ailing municipality financially at all.
Cogta Eastern Cape told Muthambi that it warned ADM years back to reverse its unlawful recategorisation of the Grade 6 authority to a Grade 7, which allowed
municipal manager, senior managers, and employees to earn way more than they deserved.
At the centre of the problems of the financially crippled Amathole District Municipality (ADM), is a fractured relationship between the municipality and the provincial department of cooperative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) overseeing the local authority.