The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) will launch an urgent appeal against the North Gauteng High Court’s decision to grant Telkom…
Zuma fights to overturn adverse legal costs ruling
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FORMER president Jacob Zuma was back at the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) yesterday in a bid to overturn the high court ruling stripping him of state-funded legal services in his fraud and corruption trial.
A full Bench of the North Gauteng High Court – Deputy Judge President Aubrey Ledwaba and Judges Piet Meyer and Elizabeth Kubushi – had declared the state not liable for legal costs incurred by Zuma in his personal capacity for criminal prosecution instituted against him.
In their December 2018 ruling, the judges reviewed and set aside decisions by the Presidency and the Office of the State Attorney made between June 2005 and March 2018 for the government to cover the legal costs Zuma incurred personally in applications relating to his criminal prosecution.
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At the end of January 2021, in amongst the headlines on Covid-19 and the virulent new British strain that was set to hit the United States “like a hurricane,” the
Los Angeles Times published an op-ed that riffed on a brand-new addition to the English lexicon: “collapseology”. It was heavy reading for the paper’s Sunday edition, particularly given the new dawn that was supposed to have been heralded by the inauguration of Joe Biden, but the facts in the piece were as true as they were newsworthy. For many decades, the authors noted, an ever-growing number of scientists had been warning that the exploitation of the planet’s resources would lead to societal collapse lately, they added, some of these scientists were suggesting that the collapse may have already begun.
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Operation Vulindlela is a unit in the office of the Presidency which monitors the implementation of policy reforms.
Deputy Minister of Finance, David Masondo, said the unit s work was as urgent as ever as the South African economy was expected to grow 3.3% this year.
Masondo acknowledged that, even recently, political economic interests often presented a stumbling block.
One of the great challenges confronting President Cyril Ramaphosa s Operation Vulindlela is the political and technical conflicts stifling the policy reforms that the high-level unit was established to expedite, according to the unit’s officials.
Operation Vulindlela is a unit in the office of the Presidency which also works closely with National Treasury in monitoring the implementation of policy reforms of Ramaphosa’s Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan, aimed at positioning South Africa for economic recovery and sustained growth.
Blade Nzimande must fix university system âor face national shutdown on Mondayâ
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Johannesburg - Protesting university students gave Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister Dr Blade Nzimande until 5pm on Friday to respond to their wide-ranging and extensive list of demands or face a nationwide shutdown from Monday.
The SA Union of Students (Saus) wrote to Nzimande on Wednesday this week listing 15 demands that should have been met by yesterday.
Among the studentsâ demands are financial clearance and that historical debts for all students in order to âensure smooth registrationâ as it happened at the University of the Western Cape.