Suspended metro housing boss Mvuleni Mapu was back in the Gqeberha commercial crimes court on Monday, where he, along with three others, face charges of fraud, defeating the ends of justice and contravention of the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA).
Suspended Nelson Mandela Bay housing boss Mvulani Mapu was one of four people who appeared on Thursday in the specialised commercial crimes court on charges related to tender fraud linked to the procurement of PPE items at municipal facilities amounting to R2.7m.
Patient readers, I will add more material under Politics in shortish order. –lambert UPDATE All done!
Bird Song of the Day
A city bird as you can tell from the honking car in the beginning!
And a country bird:
An owl obviously spotted something to eat even in the snow. They are wonderful creatures, but they don’t take prisoners! pic.twitter.com/VkYuZTJCgs
#COVID19
At reader request, I’ve added these daily charts from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching…. (A reader asked the source of the data: Johns Hopkins CSSE. DIVOC-91 does allow other data sets to be used, like Our World in Data and The Atlantic, and where they provide visualizations similar to those below, a cursory comparison shows that the shape of the curves is the same.)
Victor Rivera gained power and profit as New York’s homeless crisis worsened. Accused of sexual and financial misconduct, he has largely escaped consequences.