Mboweni’s national budget ‘robs Peter to feed Paul’ PREMIUM By Ted Keenan and Soyiso Maliti - 25 February 2021
There was no gravy in Tito Mboweni’s national budget. In fact, there was no meat or potatoes either.
Border-Kei Chamber of Business (BKCOB) president Chris Ettmayr said several things in the budget puzzled him but his biggest concern was that while Mboweni had announced a few positives, how could business be certain that by Friday the cabinet would not do an about-face, as it had done repeatedly with Eskom?..
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Thousands suffer as R140m for Eastern Cape welfare projects goes unspent PREMIUM By Soyiso Maliti - 12 February 2021
More than 40,000 girls at Eastern Cape schools did not receive sanitary pads because the social development department spent only R22m of an R160m budget covering the free delivery of the pads, food parcels and other social welfare services.
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Thousands of textbooks not delivered to EC schools PREMIUM By Soyiso Maliti - 05 February 2021
In a year in which it racked up R1.2bn in unauthorised expenditure, the Eastern Cape education department has failed to deliver textbooks to thousands of its schoolchildren. ..
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Tributes flow for ‘people s doctor’ who served rural poor PREMIUM By Soyiso Maliti - 28 January 2021
Tributes poured in for the province s people s doctor Roy Zacharia, who risked his life visiting thousands of poor Covid-19 patients at their homes at the peak of the first wave last year.
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