A disparate approach to South Africa’s economy emerged across the economic cluster budget votes delivered in Parliament. That’s despite ministers talking of accelerating progress in the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan.
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Public Works to issue tender for border security Updated
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The Department of Public Works will issue out tenders as part of its long term solution to secure the country s borders.
This comes after the R40 million botched Beitbridge border fence that was put up as a division between Zimbabwe and South Africa, ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Answering questions before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa), Minister Patricia de Lille says the department has so far received 16 proposals to come up with solutions for the border fence.
“On 26 April we had put out a request for information, we wanted to test the market and see what is available on the market and we had received 16 proposals about different solutions for the border fence including how to make use of the technology and all of that.
Mapisa-Nqakulaâs Ministry one of the most expensive in Cabinet
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Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula.
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakulaâs Ministry of Defence and Military Veterans is one of the most expensive in President Cyrilâs Ramaphosaâs Cabinet, an analysis prepared for one of Parliamentâs two defence oversight committees has it.
The Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) this week heard the cost of Mapisa-Nqakulaâs Ministry for the 2021/22 financial year is R125.5 million âsignificantly higher than the R97.2 million spent in 2020/21â according to author Dr Wilhelm Janse van Rensburg.
The amount spent on the Defence Ministry is no new phenomenon and Parliament was made aware of it as far back as 2019. That was when Professor Jannie Rossouw of the Fiscal Cliff Study Group lamented the exorbitant cost of ministries in South Africa. He noted the DoD Ministry has one of the
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