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The independent panel appointed to determine whether there is a prima facie case for Public Protector Busisiwe Mkwhebane's removal, has been granted an extension to do its work from 30 days to 90 by National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise.
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
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The Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of Guyana has now to face a High Court hearing in a challenge to the Government’s decision to deport a number of recently arrived citizens of Haiti.
The article Membership of Caricom should not be seen as tool of any one political tendency appeared first on Stabroek News.
South African blueberry producers have sailed through the setbacks of the coronavirus pandemic, exporting punnet after punnet all year.
The Western Cape, home to one of the worst COVID-19 hot-spots in the country, has not been hit by any additional restrictions. So what spared the Garden Route?
The DA has had a "vendetta" against Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane since day one, and National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise's "attitude leaves much to be desired".
Zimbabwe government has with immediate effect,suspended Ecocash and all other Mobile Money Transfer platforms in a desperate bid to curb the US dollar exchange rates which have continued to rise above the government’s gazetted inter-bank rate.
These measures are to subsist until such time that the mobile money platforms have been reformed to their original purpose and all the current phantom rates of exchange have converged into one genuine rate that is determined by market forces under the Foreign Currency Auction System which was launched by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe on 23rd June 2020.
Government is in possession of impeccable intelligence which constitutes a prima facie case whereby the phone-based mobile money systems of Zimbabwe are conspiring, with the help of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, either deliberately or inadvertently, in illicit activities that are sabotaging the economy.
This includes, in the particular case of Ecocash, holding well in excess of ZWL$8 billion distributed across just over 501 000 agent/merchant lines as lat 10 June 2020, which is not under the scrutiny of the Financial Intelligence Unit;
c) Fraudulently creating and issuing non-attributable and non-auditable agent cellphone lines/accounts;
d) Hiding irreconcilable accounts in suspense accounts which hold huge credit balances for unjustifiably long periods;
e) Ecocash, in particular, is acting as the centre pivot of the galloping black market foreign exchange rate and therefore, fuelling the incessant price hikes of goods and services that are bedevilling the economy and causing untold hardship to the people of Zimbabwe.
In this regard, it has been conspiring with big merchants to act as their conduit through which they transfer hundreds of millions of dollars per day to runners on the street who then buy US Dollars on their behalf;
f) Rampant, often arrogant, non-compliance with directives issued by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and the Financial Intelligence Unit;
g) Facilitating illicit trade in notes and coins, at contrived rates of between 30% and 50%, thus causing artificial shortages of the same within the banking system;
h) Criminally allowing agent lines that were banned by the RBZ to continue trading illegally;
i) Using bulk airtime sales at discounted prices which are cross rated to phantom USD exchange rates, which further distort the Zimbabwe market and deliberately mop up US Dollars from the black market, thus forcing up the rate of exchange in a manner that has hitherto been difficult to explain for
the monetary authorities;
k) Failure to report suspicious transactions or to take action against them;
l) Creation of illegal transient and permanent money through airtime loans, unaccounted wallet-to-bank and bank-to-wallet transactions and other malpractices;
m) Maintaining unauditable mobile phone lines or accounts which are being used by criminal syndicates, in connivance with insiders, to steal money from subscribers through such fraudulent practices as teeming and lading;
n) Acting as conduits f
The decision to impose slightly stricter lockdown regulations in Nelson Mandela Bay may lead to more relaxed conditions come Christmas, says Acting Mayor Tshonono Buyeye.
Ramaphosa was adamant that public behaviour needs to change immediately to prevent the spread of the virus, and blasted defiance of the laws.
ActionSA’s John Moodey has told the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) John Steenhuisen to worry about his own party’s affairs
The horrific Limpopo crash in Mokopane on Wednesday night involved a truck, five sedans and four pedestrians.
DA councillor Nqaba Bhanga was elected as the new Executive Mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, SA's latest COVID-19 hotspot.
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APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 87-998.
Argued October 5, 1988
Decided January 23, 1989
Appellant city adopted a Minority Business Utilization Plan (Plan) requiring prime contractors awarded city construction contracts to subcontract at least 30% of the dollar amount of each contract to one or more Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs), which the Plan defined to include a business from anywhere in the country at least 51% of which is owned and controlled by black, Spanish-speaking, Oriental, Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut citizens. Although the Plan declared that it was remedial in nature, it was adopted after a public hearing at which no direct evidence was presented that the city had discriminated on the basis of race in letting contracts or that its prime contractors had discriminated against minority subcontractors. The evidence that was introduced included: a statistical study indicating that, although the citys population was 50% black, only 0.67% of its prime construction contracts had been awarded to minority businesses in recent years; figures establishing that a variety of local contractors associations had virtually no MBE members; the citys counsels conclusion that the Plan was constitutional under Fullilove v. Klutznick, 448 U.S. 448 ; and the statements of Plan proponents indicating that there had been widespread racial discrimination in the local, state, and national construction industries. Pursuant to the Plan, the city adopted rules requiring individualized consideration of each bid or request for a waiver of the 30% set-aside, and providing that a waiver could be granted only upon proof that sufficient qualified MBEs were unavailable or unwilling to participate. After appellee construction company, the sole bidder on a city contract, was denied a waiver and lost its contract, it brought suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983, alleging that the Plan was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendments Equal Protection Clause. The Federal District
Four people have been killed and three injured in a collision on the N4 highway in Mpumalanga, paramedics say.
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Mr. Tolbert Nyenswah, the former head of the National Public Health Institute(NPHIL) has hailed the appointment of former President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to an Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR) to evaluate the world's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Former Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi had appealed to the court to consider his poor health and the state of prisons before being denied bail. After spending his first night behind bars, he was transferred to hospital.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City, one of the world's largest cities and the epicentre of the country's novel coronavirus epidemic, will begin a gradual reopening June 1, its mayor said yesterday, even as daily new infections continue to set records.
Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum called on the city's nine million residents to continue social distancing measures through June 15, but said some sectors of the economy would be allowed to resume operations at the start of June.
As of Tuesday night, Mexico City reported more than 15,000 confirmed coronavirus infections and nearly 1,500 deaths.
Sheinbaum has acknowledged that the real number of deaths in Mexico City is surely higher, but says an independent panel will have to review suspected cases and make a determination.
City death records reported by an anti-corruption watchdog group suggested the death toll could be three times as high in the capital.
In a very rare sighting, especially from a politician, EFF leader Julius Malema has willingly unpacked his wallet but some are not happy.
For those wondering why bail was granted to one of the main suspects in the Senekal case - and not for the other - this is the official explanation.
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula has gazetted a new directive which has brought about quite a hefty extension for expired driver’s licences.
Thabo Stanley Leshabane, who is accused of ordering a hit on his wife and her colleague, will apply for bail on 4 December.
The focus is to educate and inform our community.
Mangaung - the only metro under administration in the country - reportedly owes Bloem Water over R 1 billion for services rendered.
The Garden Route has seen a spike in COVID-19 cases and according to the health department, hospitals in the area are taking serious strain.
A proposed amendment to the Law Reform Commission Act, piloted by Attorney General Anil Nandlall, will fundamentally alter the manner in which the members of the Commission are selected if passed.
The article AG moving to widen membership of law reform body appeared first on Stabroek News.
Ghanaians will go to the polls on Monday in a heated contest that will revive old rivalries between incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo and his predecessor John Mahama.
