The use of water cannon by police on a Sassa grants queue in Bellville in January, and Ipid’s investigation results, illustrate the urgency with which we must move to develop a comprehensive legal instrument on the use of force. We need a law that will embody the universally recognised princi.
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A frosty standoff between the two figures in charge of South Africa’s police – National Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole and Police Minister Bheki Cele – has become even more fraught with Cele this week saying Sitole’s “disregard” for him will not be tolerated.
On 4 May, Sitole announced four senior appointments in the SA Police Service during a meeting in Parliament.
But it turns out he went against Cele’s instructions, who has deemed the appointments irregular and invalid.
This has exposed even more bad blood within the police service, which has been rocked by factionalism as well as claims and counterclaims among officers.
By Robert Tapfumaneyi
THE majority of the “special projects” undertaken in recent years by the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (ZINARA) were nothing but a grand looting scheme engineered by senior executives and hired contractors.
In the process, ZINARA lost over US$70 million to a private company, Univern Enterprises, and in the process severely crippling its operations.
The massive looting of the parastatal’s resources was unearthed recently by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Accounts.
“The committee, therefore, makes the finding that the special projects were nothing other than looting of resources by the executive of ZINARA in connivance with corrupt contractors,” a report compiled by the lawmakers following a forensic audit for the period 2017-2019, reads.
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According to the annual reports of the Robben Island Museum, R102.6-million of an infrastructure grant from the Department of Sports, Arts, and Culture (DSAC), remained unspent by the end of March 2020.
The Robben Island Museum (RIM) receives the grant for the maintenance of infrastructure on the island. However, as custodian of the infrastructure on the island, the Department of Public Works implements the maintenance projects funded by the infrastructure grant.
Prior to October 2020, all the maintenance funded by the grant was conducted by Public Works. But according to Mava Dada, museum CEO, the Deputy Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Vusumzi Mkhize noticed that the infrastructure on the island was falling into disrepair during a visit to the island in 2020.
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