The National Prosecuting Authority said 66-year-old Sarathamoney Sigamoney applied for a pensioners grant in 2017, stating she had been unemployed for 20 years.
10 May 2022 - In my last column, I discussed the government’s commitment to its race-based model of empowerment: Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment. Government leaders and ruling party Mandarins have decreed this (or at a minimum, its guiding principles) to be non-negotiable. Those who oppose it, they warn, are destroying the country’s future, for B-BBEE represents not just a strategy for economic growth, but for socio-economic and political inclusion.