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Military motorcycle patrol in the Beit Bridge area.
Shambolic scenes at at least two of South Africaâs major land ports of entry with deaths reported while waiting to be processed saw renewed calls for speedy implementation of the Border Management Authority (BMA) Act with its planned one-stop border posts.
This is in addition to what News24 Wire, as reported in The Citizen, said would see the Department of Defence (DoD) âlead in future border fence initiativesâ. The quote was attributed to Imtiaz Fazel, acting director-general in Minister Patricia De Lilleâs Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DWPI). He was speaking during a Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) meeting discussing the multi-million Rand spend on a failed fence adjacent to the Beit Bridge port of entry, ostensibly part of government effort to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Sisulu must take full responsibility for multi-million Rand criminal mess
Issued by Emma Louise Powell MP – DA Shadow Minister of Human Settlements
07 Feb 2021 in News
The Democratic Alliance (DA) will this week refer all work performed by the controversial Housing Development Agency (HDA) during the Covid-19 pandemic to Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) for investigation and will write to the Chairperson of the Housing Portfolio Committee requesting that a full Parliamentary inquiry is initiated without delay.
Following a report of the Auditor-General, a raid of the HDA’s premises by the Hawks in December, and a number of tender-related
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The commission of inquiry into state capture has heard that a lack of parliamentary oversight is to blame for the rampant corruption at state-owned enterprises.
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Former chairperson of Parliament s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) Themba Godi appeared before the commission on Monday.
Godi said while Scopa was diligent in executing its duties, politics interfered with Parliament s efforts to hold the executive to account.
I have seen how members of various political parties will come to the House on a particular issue, with a political mandate on the stance they should take. Reason and facts would not sway them otherwise.