Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has published new gazettes which update the country’s lockdown travel…
Cabinet has approved the extension of the national state of disaster until the 15th of March. This as South Africa battles the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic with vaccines yet to be rolled out this month.
No respite for sewage-saddled, in-the-dark, water-starved Emfuleni residents
The municipality, which sprawls along the north bank of the Vaal River near Vereeniging, is one of Gauteng’s most densely populated areas, with Sebokeng, Evaton, Sharpeville, and Boipatong townships lying within its boundaries.
In what is yet another sorry twist to the multitude of crises engulfing the Emfuleni Municipality, Gauteng MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) Lebogang Maile recently announced that the initial team of administrators “were not up to the job” and had to be replaced.
The Emfuleni Municipality was placed under administration in June 201 – due to major economic, financial and service delivery problems – and a new team, led by Arbeto Martins, has subsequently been appointed.
b. November 3 1959
Premier of the Free State (2009-2018); secretary-general of the ANC (2017-present); “secretary-gangster”; “Mr Ten Percent”; Zuma Mk II; the difference between new dawn and interminable twilight.
Dishonourable mentions: the Guptas, David Mabuza, Supra Mahumapelo, Carl Niehaus, Jacob Zuma
It wasn’t long ago that Jacob Zuma was the most powerful person in South Africa and thus, being the man he is, the most dangerous person in South Africa. How, with a little help from David Mabuza, the mighty have fallen.
Today Zuma has been reduced to Zooming with his son and Gupta employee Duduzane to try and work ersatz Bell Pottinger narrative diversions into the public discourse and calling in sickies from Cuba to avoid his corruption trial and Zondo commission appearances. It’s worth remembering what an untouchable and all-powerful king Zuma once was not too many years distant and comparing it to the pitiable figure he is today. Where he once instilled bogeyman