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South Africa reported 14 air crashes in January 2021 alone, the highest number since Black October 2008.
EIGHT PEOPLE DIED IN FOURTEEN AIR CRASHES
The Director of the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA), Poppy Khoza, says four of these January aircraft accidents were fatal with eight people losing their lives.
According to SACAA, this is the highest number of accidents since what has become known as Black October 2008 in which 20 accidents occurred, killing 26 people.
MORE AIR CRASHES DESPITE LOCKDOWN
Preliminary investigations into the accidents reveal the causes include human error by flight crew, followed âby aircraft operations and then mechanical or engine failureâ. Khoza says the causes of the crashes are nothing new, so she asks why are they reoccurring. âCould it be a matter of attitude and not necessarily aptitude?â
Jackson Mthembu praised at Zondo commission for backing ANC MPs probing graft
By Loyiso Sidimba
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Johannesburg - Former chairperson of the National Assemblyâs portfolio committee on public enterprises Zukiswa Rantho on Tuesday praised late Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu for encouraging ANC MPs to pursue allegations of wrongdoing against party members.
Rantho told the commission of inquiry into state capture on Wednesday that the committee had leadership in a person like Mthembu, who died of Covid-19-related complications last month.
âHe would say: âYou push for what is right. You do what is right, you correct what is wrong. You tell a person if they are wrong politically and administratively,ââ she recalled Mthembu telling the committee.
SADC contributes half Covid-19 numbers in Africa
By ANA Reporter
By Molaole Montsho
Rustenburg – Southern African Development Community (SADC) chairperson Filipe Nyusi says more than 50 percent of all new daily infections of Covid-19 on the African continent have been reported in the SADC region in January. There is a growing concern that infections are being driven in part by a new strain of coronavirus known as 501.V2 which has so far been reported in three SADC countries, according to the Africa Centre for Disease Control, he said in his address on the second wave of Covid-19 in the SADC. Under this scenario, our health systems are rapidly reaching the limit of their capacities and the situation is expected to worsen in the short term.
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The ANC caucus was divided about Parliamentary inquiry into Eskom, with attempts to scupper to the inquiry, former ANC MP Lukiswa Rantho told the Zondo commission.
She said she felt pressurised and threatened, but continued with the inquiry.
Initially, the ANC was unwilling to probe allegations of corruption and undue influence.
A substantial number of ANC MPs looked to scupper the Parliamentary inquiry into Eskom in 2017 and 2018 due to concerns about the reputation of the party , and the committee chairperson, Lukiswa Rantho, was intimidated, she told the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture on Tuesday.
ANC MP Tozama Mantashe has died of Covid-19 complications.
She is the sister of Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe.
The ANC has hailed Mantashe as a fiery gender activist.
Yet another lawmaker has succumbed to Covid-19.
ANC MP Tozama Mantashe, the sister of ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe, died on Sunday due to Covid-19 complications.
Tozama Mantashe is the 13
th MP to have died of the virus.
In a statement on Monday, ANC chief whip Pemmy Majodina said Mantashe was hospitalised for a few weeks. At the time of her demise, Comrade Tozama Mantashe had served in both the fifth and sixth Parliament and was assigned to serve on the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry during the sixth Parliament as well as the National Assembly Rules Committee and Joint Rules Committee, she said.