Toilet tender with protector: Daily Dispatch
March 3rd, 2015DA and EFF each urge Thuli Madonsela’s office to probe Siyenza AMATHOLE district municipal manager Chris Magwangqana may soon have to answer to Public Protector Thuli Madonsela on the award of a R631-million sanitation tender to the Siyenza Group. Calls have been made for Madonsela to initiate a probe into how the Gautengbased company was awarded the tender. DA parliamentary leader Mmusi Maimane and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in …
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Fill vacant teachers’ posts, say DA protesters: Weekend Post
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SOME streets in Zwelitsha outside East London resembled a sea of blue when hundreds of protesting DA members marched to the provincial education department headquarters yesterday to demand more teachers be placed in provincial schools. The DA march attended by an estimated 300 people, most of them clad in blue T-shirts, was a culmination of the party’s ‘One teacher, One classroom’ campaign, which saw more than 3 000 signatories calling …
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Increased tax burden slated: The Herald
February 26th, 2015OPPOSITION parties have lashed out at the government for hiking income tax, saying it should rather cut the bloated administration and effect strict cost-containment measures. In his budget speech yesterday, Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene dealt a blow to high-income earners with significant increases in income tax. COPE president Mosiuoa Lekota said the party was against tax increases in the constrained economic climate. “Money in people’s pockets is what makes an …
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East Cape’s budget wish list: The Herald
February 25th, 2015Energy crisis and Nooitgedacht water scheme major concerns THE Eastern Cape will be holding thumbs that it gets its fair share of the budget pie. Widely regarded as the poorest province in the country, the Eastern Cape will this afternoon listen with interest as Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene delivers his first budget speech. Provincial DA finance spokesman Bobby Stevenson is hoping Nene will make an announcement in regard to the …
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DA decries 40% rise in irregular spending: Daily Dispatch
February 5th, 2015THE province’s official opposition party, the DA, yesterday raised concern that irregular expenditure by various government departments had increased by 40% over the past three years. According to auditor-general (AG) Kimi Makwetu’s latest report on finances of provincial departments and parastatals, irregular expenditure has increased from R1.75-billion in the 2011-12 financial year to R2.18-billion in 2012-13 to R2.45-billion in 2013-14. During a legislature sitting yesterday, where the standing committee on …
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