While the impact of the recent riots on Gauteng is estimated to be at just over R3bn, the province has several interventions which including funding instruments as a part of its reconstruction and recovery plan.
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The Gauteng Department of Health says it has instituted an investigation in order to establish the circumstances around the death of a 26-year-old patient at Helen Joseph Hospital.
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North West MEC for Cooperative Governance Mmoloki Cwaile has expressed his disappointment that a warrant had to be obtained by the Special Investigating Unit to get key documents from the Ratlou Local Municipality in Setlagole.
The unit was granted a warrant by the Atamelang Magistrate’s Court after the unit said it did not get the necessary cooperation from officials in its attempts to access key documents.
The SIU is investigating allegations relating to the awarding of tenders for personal protective equipment worth R25 million.
MEC Cwaile says they have battled to get the municipality to cooperate.
“We have experienced unprecedented arrogance and lack of cooperation on the part of the managers. They cannot refuse access to the information of the state by other state establishments,” says Cwaile.
SIU spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago says they have finally managed to confiscate documents that will assist in the investigation.
“We collected a lot of information and all we want is in the main procurement information and HR information for the officials that we got names of that were involved so that we are able to merge the two. We want to know how these transactions were done. The SCM processes were done to get the contracts given to those people. Who are these people that they gave the contracts to?” says Kganyago.
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More than 1 600 members of the Shona community who have lived in Kenya for decades as stateless persons were conferred with the country’s citizenship on Wednesday.
Interior Security minister Dr Fred Matiang’i issued them with national Identity Cards, ending a protracted struggle to be recognised by the East African nation which has hosted them and their forefathers for more than 60 years.
The Shona community members first arrived in Kenya in 1959 as missionaries from Zambia and Zimbabwe. After Kenya gained independence, they remained stateless as the country’ post-independence. Constitution did not have a provision to confer citizenship to those not of Kenyan descent.
“It is a long history, the people who first came here are our parents, they came here in the early 50s, 60s, after we attained independence our parents start to preach the word of god here in Kenya,” says the secretary general of the Shona community, pastor Oliver Muregerera.
So began a state of limbo for them, their children and great-grandchildren. “We do not hold nay legal documents like an ID card,” adds another member of the community, Nosisizwe Dube.
The last head count by the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, indicates that the Shona community in Kenya has about 3 500 members. On Wednesday, 1 649 of them officially became Kenyan.
“From this forward, there will no people known as Shona, these are citizens of this country,” Dr Matiang’i told those gathered to witness and celebrate the milestone.
Kenya has set itself a December 2021 deadline to end statelessness.
In 2017, 1 176 members of the Makonde Community from Mozambique received their identity cards, becoming Kenya’s 43rd tribe.
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DA leader John Steenhuisen wrote to President Cyril Ramaphosa to request a meeting to establish precisely what happened in the week leading up to the looting and unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.
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