The Home Affairs Department has set up a Border Management Authority, however, there are no boots on the ground yet. Minister Motsoaledi has explained why the authority has not started working yet.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said that since the establishment of the Special Tribunal, around R8.6 billion from unlawful contracts had already been recovered. The president said this has been a game-changer but it was only effective if perpetrators are prosecuted.
The service provider, who spoke to Eyewitness News on condition of anonymity, said that he had to borrow money as he waited for the Gauteng Health Department to settle its bill of more than R1 million.
City Power said that it was battling to deal with outages linked to vandalism of its infrastructure as well as the strain that the power cuts were putting on its teams.