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The assembly has issued a 14-day ultimatum for the executive to submit essential information regarding all pending bills.
South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
Luanda — After 60 days of social confinement under the Presidential Decree on the State of Emergency, Angola is observing, as of Tuesday, a Public Calamity Situation, with new rules to overcome the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
For this reason, with the new measure, it seeks \"a proportional balance between the defence of public health and the normal exercise of economic and social activities\".
According to the new Presidential Decree, public and private institutions will continue to operate, in a first phase, with 50 percent of the workforce, until 29 June.
Another new element in the Public Calamity Situation is the full reopening of all public and private health units that have been operating only with essential services since the entry into force of the State of Emergency in March.
Among the new measures of the Government also includes the reopening of churches from 24 June, with a maximum capacity of 50 percent of the place of worship , when in a closed place, with a maximum limit of 150 people.
The Government has set out a series of actions and plans that it will implement to accelerate technology and innovation in the country amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic, or COVID-19.
In an economic recovery plan approved by the cabinet recently, the government said it will increase spending on digital infrastructure, adopt data-driven approaches in response to economic recovery interventions, and leverage technology solutions to inform Covid19 containment strategies.
Government intends to improve the quality of mobile broadband services, increase fiber to the home (FTTH) services, particularly the city of Kigali, scale up telemedicine infrastructure, and increase availability of high computing infrastructure and hosting services.
Government is also targeting full implementation of digital identity and trust service, improving cybersecurity resilience across all sectors, as well as on the current systems in the agriculture sector to track food productivity across the whole country.
To promote e-commerce, a plan has been agreed upon to extend waivers for transaction fees to encourage contactless methods of payment, and revise Merchant Discount Rates (MDR) to encourage digital payments adoption.
It’s that time of year again -- the impending start of hurricane season, when everyone becomes a meteorologist, and the bane of Ernesto Morales’ existence.
In summary New index ranks women’s well-being in all California counties shows Santa Clara women are the most likely to work low wage jobs in the state. Women in Santa Clara County are the most likely in California to work a low-wage job. They also face California’s third highest gender income gap, according to a […]
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Augustus Alexander Savage, later better known as “Gus”, was born in Detroit, Michigan, on October 30 1925. Savage attended public schools in Chicago and graduated from Wendell Phillips High School in 1943 before joining the United States Army. He served until 1946 before earning a B.A. degree in philosophy from Roosevelt University in 1951 and attending Chicago-Kent college of Law from 1952 to 1953. In the 1940s, Savage was a fulltime organizer for the Progressive Party of former Vice President Henry A. Wallace and also a promoter of programs for Paul Robeson, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Hon. Elijah Muhammad. Savage began a career as a journalist in 1954 and became the editor of The America Negro Magazine, the assistant editor of the Illinois Beverage Booster, and finally in 1965 he began to edit and publish the Chicago Weekend and Citizen Newspapers.
During his long career as a journalist, Savage was also politically active in the local community. He served as a member and officer in the Chicago League of Negro Voters (1958-59), the Southend Voters Conference (1965-67), and the Organization of the Southwest Communities (1968-69). Savage first ran for Congress in 1968, where he lost to incumbent Representative William T. Murphy in the primary and lost again in 1970. In December of 1979, Second District Representative Morgan F. Murphy announced his retirement and Savage entered the race to succeed him. Savage became a member of Ninety-seventh Congress on January 3, 1981 as Democrat of Illinois.
In Congress, Savage was elected chairman of the powerful Economic Development sub-committee of the House. The committee authorized and oversaw programs and funding for the Economic Development Administration and Appalachian Regional Commission. As chairman of the Economic Development subcommittee, Savage established an unprecedented federal commitment to minority set-asides when the House passed a $38 billion Department of Defense procurement goal for minority businesses and historically black colleges and universities
Naspers and Prosus CEO Bob van Dijk
Bob van Dijk, CEO of Naspers and its European-listed spin-off Prosus, received remuneration of US$15.98-million, or R276-million, in the past year, according to the Naspers annual report published on Tuesday.
Naspers (and Prosus) chief financial officer Basil Sgourdos, meanwhile, took home total remuneration of $9.16-million (R158.3-million), the annual report shows.
Naspers, which has been criticised in the past by investors over its remuneration practices, said in the report that it believes in “pay for performance” and that it is “comfortable with bigger rewards for those that make the highest contribution”.
Our reward systems must help us attract and retain the best talent around the world in a fair and responsible way
Remuneration, it said, must be aligned with shareholder outcomes and must incentivise the achievement of strategic, operational and financial objectives in both the short and longer term.
Naspers and Prosus chief financial officer Basil Sgourdos
“Given the longer-term focus of the company, and the prudent approach on pay and bonuses, it will still be appropriate to issue long-term incentive awards in the coming year, though the grant date will be postponed until August or early September, in line with the LTI awards to the broader employee population this year.”
