President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday pleaded with South Africans to allow a panel led by justice Dikgang Moseneke to investigate whether it will be suitable to hold free and fair elections during the Covid-19 pandemic.
SIU probe into R82m tender linked to Zweli Mkhize s associates at an early stage 25 February 2021 - 13:40 Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has been implicated in a conflict of interest scandal involving his former spokesperson and personal assistant. File photo. Image: GCIS
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) probe into possible collusion of tenders awarded by the national health department to a KwaZulu-Natal based communications company with close links to health minister Zweli Mkhize is “at an early stage”.
SIU spokesperson Kaizer Kganyango told TimesLIVE on Thursday that they had requested documentation from the department regarding the tenders.
“We have already started. We have sent a letter, as per our legislation, for request for documentation yesterday. Today [Thursday] we have followed it up with a physical letter where we sent somebody to go through [to deliver it]. We don t want a situation where people say they didn t receive it.
17 February 2021 - 18:32 Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says the pandemic showed that the three spheres of government are interdependent and interrelated and can be agile and responsive, File picture. Image: GCIS
Co-operative governance and traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Wednesday hit back at those who criticised her handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“The pandemic also displayed the inequalities confronting us. While the majority are struggling to survive, a few have poured millions into court cases to challenge our response to the pandemic,” Dlamini-Zuma told a joint sitting of the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces to debate President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state of the nation address.