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Joint Sittings to debate the President’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), public hearings on a civil aviation Bill, the review of the Women’s Charter and 44 meetings of committees are coming up on the programme of Parliament this week.
Since April 2019, the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) commissioner Zodwa Ntuli has been on the warpath, insisting that several of the longest-established black empowerment schemes are operating in breach of the legislation, claiming BEE “ownership points” to which they are not entitled.
This is surprising for several reasons, not least because there has been no change in the intricate laws and regulations covering approved BEE since 2015.
Ntuli is an employee of the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) who was appointed by the minister in early 2019.
The main Broad-Based Ownership Schemes (BBOS) have made repeated calls on the DTIC to clarify the situation. The most recent was on 8 February 2021. But they have got the run-around from government.
In 1978, the Rev Jim Jones persuaded his cult followers to drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid and more than 900 of them died. Since then, the phrase “Drink the Kool-Aid” describes people who follow leaders unthinkingly, as in a cult. From reading the article by Jessie Duarte under the rubric “Testimony at Zondo Commission is an onslaught against the People”, I am convinced that she drank the Kool-Aid and that her morality was thereby consumed.
Let us remind ourselves that the “Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture”, with a subheading “Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State”, was launched by then president Jacob Zuma in January 2018. The establishment and the terms of reference of the commission were an executive decision by the then president. In signing and announcing the executive decision, there was no gun to his head.
Magadzi: When ANC says this is route we re going to take, you can t deviate Dikeledi Magadzi took the stand at the State Capture Commission on Monday where she testified about her time as chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Transport. FILE: Dikeledi Magadzi gave evidence at the state capture inquiry on how the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) made it difficult for MPs to do oversight work on 8 February 2021. Picture: Screenshot SABC/YouTube.
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JOHANNESBURG - Deputy Transport Minister Dikeledi Magadzi said that she didn’t support motions by the Democratic Alliance (DA) for Parliament to investigate the Guptas because that’s what the African National Congress (ANC) told her to do.
NEHAWU mourns the passing of comrade Thozama Mantashe
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The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU) has learned with shock and sadness the untimely passing of its former 2ndDeputy President, Comrade Thozama Priscilla Mantashe. She lost her life last night due to COVID-19 complications.