Wednesday, 16 December 2020, 10:15 According to AfriForum the limiting of access to beaches, that are public property, amounts to the restriction of a basic human right.
NATIONAL NEWS - The civil rights organisation AfriForum introduced a motion in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to have COVID-19 Regulation 69(12)(a), (b), (c) and (d) declared unconstitutional.
This regulation stipulates inter alia that all beaches in the Eastern Cape, as well as in the Garden Route will be closed from 16 December to 3 January.
It also stipulates that all beaches in KwaZulu-Natal will be closed on 16, 25, 26 and 31 December, as well as from 1 to 3 January.
Mokonyane retracts false Umgeni Water statements made against Trevor Manuel Citizen reporter
The former house chairperson who oversaw the an advisory board, Cedric Frolick, was expected to be replaced by Nomvula Mokonyane. Picture: Refilwe Modise ‘I agreed to tender an unconditional apology for such misstatements I had made,’ Mokonyane said on Wednesday.
Former minister of environmental affairs Nomvula Mokonyane has retracted statements made against former finance minister Trevor Manuel after accusing him of attempting to influence the Umgeni Water board in 2017.
Mokonyane’s apology comes three years later following her statements made during a television interview with Justice Malala on 27 November 2017, prompting Manuel to approach court to get Mokonyane to
Mkhwebane to appear in court over perjury charge news24.com
Comments The Hawks have confirmed that Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane will face three counts of perjury at the Pretoria Magistrates Court in January. Credit: Gallo Images
The Gauteng Director of Public Prosecutions has taken a decision to prosecute Public Protector Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane for perjury, NPA spokesperson Sipho Ngwema confirmed on Tuesday. The NPA wishes to confirm that the DPP indeed took a decision to prosecute after he carefully assessed the evidence presented to him by the Hawks. This is in line with the prosecution policy and the law, he said.
History and Evolution of Gambling in South Africa
History and Evolution of Gambling in South Africa
History and Evolution of Gambling in South Africa
Gambling, whether physical or online, has always been a great source of revenue to the economy of South Africa. Inconsistencies in regulation and laws have made the industry a largely illegal one.
Since 1673, gambling in South Africa has faced a lot of restrictions. In 1965, the South Africa’s Gambling Act was passed and this one banned every form of gambling excluding bets on horse racing as this was already existent as a sport activity.
In the late 1970s, casinos became operational in the bantustans (the nominally independent areas called homelands) of Venda, Transkei, Ciskei and Bophuthatswana. The only people who lived there were native South Africans and there were a lot of citizens who had no access to these gambling institutions. About 2,000 illegal casinos were in existence by 1995 just in South Africa. By 1994, with the
Much has been made in the media of the (un)fairness of rewriting matric maths and physical science paper 2, as announced by the Department of Basic Education in response to both papers being leaked. Teacher unions declared that a rewrite is unfair to pupils, citing the psychological toll in an already extremely stressful year and the small proportion of pupils who were likely to have seen the leaked papers.
The department has defended the decision, saying the integrity of the examination process must be defended “at all costs”. The issue came to a head in the North Gauteng High Court on Friday, 11 December 2020, with the judiciary siding with the unions. But what neither the defence nor the applicants mentioned in their arguments is how exam leaks were predictable in a year wracked by Covid-19, as was the double-down response from the department with a rewrite: both events point to fundamental flaws in the system.