Violence against women is on the increase and driven by the internet and social media is becoming normalised in societies across the world. Masimanyane Women’s Rights International founder and director Lesley Ann Foster made the comments during a breakaway from a strategy session of the International Network to End Violence Against Women and Girls.
Former Eastern Cape health superintendent-general Dr Thobile Mbengashe has come out slugging in premier Oscar Mabuyane’s disciplinary inquiry against him, saying he never initiated the fraught tender to procure “scooter ambulances and clinics”, which underpins the hearing. Mbengashe’s counsel, advocate Fabian Pretorius, bluntly told the Office of the Premier inquiry, headed by advocate Peter Kroon SC, that the wrong evidence was placed before the Special Tribunal judge who reviewed and stoppe.
Two law firms have issued summonses againstIN TOMORROW'S DAILY DISPATCH:for outstanding fees totalling about R16m. In 2018 the caretaker head of the Mthatha state attorney office retained Qonce-based Notshe Attorneys and Pretoria firm Ndou Van Greunen, among other non-Mthatha firms, to deal with the effects of under-staffing within the office allegedly endemic corruption, fraud and wasteful expenditure.
The Special Investigating Unit promotes itself as “the state’s preferred and trusted forensic investigation and litigation agency”. But the unit’s officials stand accused of making the elementary mistake of misreading a tender adjudication document in its probe of the Eastern Cape health department’s tender to procure 100 motorcycles to service rural clinics.
The Eastern Cape housing department has summarily dismissed its chief financial officer (CFO) after a disciplinary inquiry found Ouma Gaehumelwe Diutlwileng guilty on a litany of charges which included gross dishonesty, insubordination and negligence. The department accused Diutlwileng, employed in the post from March 1 2019, of undertaking remunerative work for other government entities outside housing, without first obtaining the permission of the housing head of department.