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Post Office has started preparing branches for return of R350 social relief grant

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Post date July 30, 2021

The Post Office says it has started preparing logistics for the return of the R350 COVID-19 social relief grant despite a number of branches being affected by the recent looting and violence in some parts of the country.

The Post Office says 51 branches in KwaZulu-Natal and 24 in Gauteng were affected. It says that it is prepared to extend working hours and increase pay points to ensure that beneficiaries access their grants.

CEO of the South African Post Office Nomkitha Mona says a date is yet to be set for the disbursement of the grant.

“We’ve also been in talks with some of our stakeholders to engage with us because we are going to need a lot more pay points because there’s no Post Office to speak of in some areas. So where we can work in a vandalised Post Office, we will work, because we’re currently working manually. But we’re also trying to get them to our sites, so we want to pay people as close as possible,” says Mona.

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Kenya grants Shona community members citizenship, ending a protracted struggle for recognition

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Post date July 30, 2021

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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News24.com | Bok assistant coach takes aim at World Rugby, says Gatland ‘destroyed the dignity of the series’

Post author By Recent South Africa News
Post date July 30, 2021

Springbok assistant coach Mzwandile Stick questioned World Rugby’s double standards for wanting to censure Rassie Erasmus while not doing so with Warren Gatland for criticising Marius Jonker’s TMO appointment.

News24.com | Transnet to lift force majeure for port terminals

Post author By Recent South Africa News
Post date July 30, 2021

Transnet will uplift the force majeure which was declared on 22 July at its port terminals.

Tunisian President replaces head of television station

Post author By Recent South Africa News
Post date July 30, 2021

Tunisian President Kais Saied removed the head of the national television station, Mohamedal-Dahach, on Wednesday and appointed a temporary replacement, his office said, after calls to protect free speech.

Saied on Sunday invoked emergency powers to seize control of government, remove the Prime Minister and freeze Parliament in a move his foes have called a coup.

He removed Dahach after an incident on Wednesday afternoon when officials from the journalists’ syndicate and human rights league said they were forbidden entry to the station even though they had been invited to appear on a show.

Amira Mohammed, the deputy head of the journalists’ syndicate, said Dahach had told her an army commander had ordered him not to allow guests into the building.

The army had surrounded the television station on Sunday.

Both Mohammed and the human rights official, Basem Trifi ,later managed to appear on the show.

An adviser to Saied and an army spokesperson were also interviewed on the programme and both denied that any order had been given to stop guests entering.

Some Tunisian journalists called on social media for Dahachto be fired.

On Monday police raided the Al Jazeera news bureau in Tunis, prompting the US State Department to say it was troubled by the move and urge “scrupulous respect” for freedom of press.

On Wednesday, a New York Times reporter said she had been detained for two hours in Tunis but was then released and allowed to continue working.

Since its 2011 revolution that introduced democracy, Tunisia has enjoyed far greater press freedoms than any of its neighbours.

State news agency TAP regularly covers anti-government protests and statements critical of the authorities.

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