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Deaan Vivier, Gallo Images, Netwerk24 Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has said Cuban engineers will not be taking local jobs. The water infrastructure engineers are in South Africa as part of a skills transfer programme. Sisulu said local companies did not respond when she made the call for participants. Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has lashed out at those who have questioned a skills transfer programme involving Cuban engineers. READ | Most were seconded to water...

Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 4:45 pm The boil water notice in Carterton is still in effect until further notice while the Council works with an independent drinking water assessor on an audit which is expected to be completed by the end of this week. This means Carterton residents and businesses connected to the town water supply are advised to continue boiling all water before being used for drinking, making baby formula, juice, ice, washing fruit and vegetables, other food preparation/cooking nee...

In the most recent encyclical Fratelli Tutti (On Fraternity and Social Friendship), Pope Francis has reminded the Church that all of us are part of a larger human family and that our human fraternity “transcends the barriers of geography and distance.” In a spirit of fraternal love, the Church cannot turn a blind eye to those in need and the vulnerable irrespective of who they are and where they come from, especially in times of crises. In this Season of Lent, the sacrifices of fasting, pra...

What else is required for Energy from Waste to be successful? Europes experience with EfW shows that critical to the economics of each proposed project is a stable and long-term supply of waste. Local councils often coordinate and combine their waste quantities to support the development of large scale EfW projects. To minimise transportation of waste, projects are often located close to the major sources of waste, for example cities for their municipal waste or large industrial emitters of was...

Media Statement ​ ​I am pleased to announce that one of the City of Johannesburg opportunity centres, the Thusanang Opportunity Centre in Klipfontein View, is already a hive of activity less than a mere two months since opening its doors to the public. This was discovered after a recent oversight visit conducted at the Centre and by interacting with staff and community members in a bid to gather feedback on their experiences. The Centre Manager, Harold Mbowana, revealed that small business...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The use of long-term exclusive lease agreements by supermarkets in South Africa has been quite controversial over the last few years. Unsurprisingly, the impact of long-term exclusive lease agreements on local competition was one of the six objectives to be investigated by the Grocery Retail Market Inquiry GRMI") which was established on 30 October 2015. In the final report of the GRMI, which...

Today, a full screen that i want to give you. a call for full screen nor the attorney general, comey insubordinate. questioning here, we found it was extraordinary and insubordinate for comey to conceal his intentions from superiors, the attorney general, the deputy attorney general for the admitted purpose of preventing them from telling him not to make the statement and instruct his insubordinates in the fbi to do the same. comey waited until the morning of his press conference to inform lynch...

>> i want to get back to the timeline. first, jed, your argument. the memo makes it interesting. a private matter cybill the se they use. look, the president can lie to whatever he wants about anything. thats not a legal issue. the president can craft a misleadi stateme. thats a quote, private matter. why do you think that is not true? >> it turns out congress has ering. a statute about witness that statute says whoever corruptly per suedes or engages in misleading conduct with the intent for in...

The memo makes it interesting. a private matter cybill the clause they use. look, the president can lie to whatever he wants about anything. thats not a lue. the president can craft a misleading statement. thats a quote, privatmatter. why do you think that is not true? >> it turns out congress has passed a statute about witness tampering. that statute says whoever corruptly per suedes or engages in misleading conduct with the intent for influencing testimony, thats a felony obstruction of justic...

This happened. so the most critical thing here is if there are any people trapped in their vehicles or perhaps between the now pancaked pedestrian bridge and southwest eighth street that could be trapped but still alive under rubble. we have not yet received an update on the status of that. remember, they have sound audio listening devices trying to discern like after an earthquake, you could hear any sounds or screams. we dont have an update on whether they have in fact fully explored those opt...