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Generic image. NATIONAL NEWS - The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has welcomed a Pretoria High Court dismissal of former Gauteng Health MEC, Dr Bandile Masuku’s application challenging the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) investigation outcome report. The application is related to PPE procurement by the Gauteng Department of Health in April 2020. Reacting to the High Court outcome, the SIU said its investigation in the department found a number of irregularities in the appointment of service providers for the delivery and supply of PPE.  It also found that Masu...

High court dismisses Masuku’s application to challenge SIU report Former Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku, on Monday, failed in his bid to challenge the SIU report into PPE irregularities. The High Court, Gauteng division has dismissed former Health MEC Bandile Masuku’s application to challenge the Special Investigating Unit’s (SIU) report into personal protective equipment (PPE) irregularities.  The SIU’s PPE investigation in the Gauteng Department of Health found a number of irregularities in the appointment of service providers for the delivery and supply of PPE and the failure b...

× 14 April 2021: Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games mascot Miraitowa poses with a display of Olympic Symbol after unveiling ceremony of the symbol on Mt. Takao in Hachioji, west of Tokyo, to mark 100 days before the start of 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Photo: dpa 1/4 A Pakistani man prepares traditional food at a restaurant for pre-dawn meals (Sehri) during the fasting month of Ramadan, in Peshawar, Pakistan, 14 April 2021. EPA/ARSHAD ARBAB 2/4 Palestinians shop in the market on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan amid the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic in Gaza City, 13 April 2021. EPA/MOHAMMED SA...

Like from republicans who have been reluctant to stand up to the president on anything? joining the conversation now is mimi rocha, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. jeremy bash is also with us. jeremy, you and i started this conversation at 4:00. you do not think that the regulations permit for the president to fire a special counsel? >> well, the regulations make clear that the removal of the special counsel can only be accomplished by the attorney general. in this case the attorney general is rod rosenstein acting in the shoes of jeff sessions. however, s...

Regulation, overturning it and issue, using his executive authorities, a new regulation that says the president and only the president can remove a special counsel. this could be litigated. this could be tossed around. ultimately i think it could go to the courts and maybe congress. >> let me ask you a broader question about the blow it right represent to our understanding of the rule of law and to the norms of the justice department. it is no secret to anyone who follows the president on twitter that he is in a hot war against his own political appointee as the justice department, his own pol...