The national Department of Basic Education has failed to spend the Schools Infrastructure Backlogs Grant for the Eastern Cape. This means R415 million or 26% of the R1.574 billion allocated to the Eastern Cape has been underspent. This money is allocated for the eradication of mud structure schools. This emerged in a briefing by National Treasury and the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) to the Provincial Portfolio Committee on Finance Wednesday 15 November 2017 in Bhisho, on the 2017 Division of Revenue Amendment Bill. For the relevant page in the Bill click here. The DA shadow MEC for Finance, MPL Bobby…
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ESKOM should be able to reduce their operating bill by up to R10 billion per annum says the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA), which Friday 17 November presented its case for a 0% electricity tariff increase for the 2018/19 period at the National Energy Regulator (NERSA) public hearings. This comes after ESKOM applied to NERSA for a 19.9% increase. “In our request for NERSA not to grant approval for any electricity tariff increase, we sighted an ongoing decline in efficiencies, maladministration and corruption, combined with a lack of leadership accountability over the past decade, which had given rise to unwarranted…
Times for selected sporting events Friday 17 November Cricket Ram Slam T20 Challenge, bizhub Highveld Lions v World Sports Betting Cape Cobras, 5.45pm on SS2 (match starts 6pm). Saturday 18 November Football Telkom Knockout, SF1: Bidvest Wits v Kaizer Chiefs — 3pm on SS4 and SS10 (match starts 3.30pm). Rugby Welsh International Rugby, Wales vs Georgia — 4.20pm on SS2 (match starts 4.30pm) England International Rugby, England vs Australia — 4.30pm on SS1 (match starts 5pm) Scotland International Rugby, Scotland vs New Zealand — 7pm on SS1 (match starts 7.15pm) Irish International Rugby, Ireland vs Fiji — 7.20pm on SS2 (match starts 7.30pm) French International Rugby, France vs South Africa — 9.15pm on SS1 (match starts 9.45pm). Tennis ATP World Tour Finals, semi-finals 1, 4pm on SS5, semi-finals 2, 10pm on SS5. Sunday 19 November Cricket SA…
The Warriors announced the 13 man squad for the RamSlam T20 match against the Multiply Titans which takes place Friday 17 November in East London at 6pm. Colin Ackermann Andrew Birch Gihahn Cloete Aya Gqamane Colin Ingram Christiaan Jonker Sisanda Magala Lesiba Ngoepe Jerry Nqolo Solo Nqweni Jon-Jon Smuts (Capt) Kelly Smuts Basheer Walters.
Online entries for the 2017 Old Mutual Two Oceans Trail Runs will open at 10am (12km) and 11am (24km) respectively on Friday, 1 December 2017. Trail runners can choose between the 12km route – a perfect race for trail novices – and the 24km run that caters for fit and experienced trail runners. It will be the ninth year that this popular event is held as part of the Easter Weekend line-up. To minimise the impact on the sensitive ecological area that the event runs through, entries across the two distances will be limited to 1 000 runners in total.…
Sunday, November 26 will be a red-letter day for the Southern Kings when they host reigning champions, Scarlets, in a GUINNESSPRO14 Championship clash at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. Despite suffering a heavy loss away to the Welshmen in their opening fixture early in September, the Kings come into this match fresh off the back of their best performance of the season – a narrow 36-43 loss to Ulster – and it would be a huge mistake to underestimate the men from the Bay. Whilst results may not have gone the way of the local franchise yet, the quality of…
As the country woke up to winter-like temperatures on Thursday, the South African Weather Services (SAWS) issued a special weather advisory for heavy rain and even snow in some parts of the country. Meanwhile, rain in the Grahamstown area has seen water once again flow into Howieson’s Poort dam. Heavy rain leading to flooding is expected in places over the eastern parts of the Eastern Cape and southern parts of KwaZulu-Natal. Also, snowfalls are expected over the Sneeuberg and Winterberg mountains. The Weather Services said an intense upper air trough is expected to affect the Western Cape, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Free…
The Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) on Comprehensive Social Security says an integrated payment system for the payment of social grants will be in place by the end of March 2018. Minister in the Presidency responsible for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Jeff Radebe, appointed IMC chair by President Jacob Zuma two days ago, made the announcement when briefing the joint meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts and the Portfolio Committee on Social Development on Wednesday. The briefing was to review points of impasse between the South African Social Security Agency and the South African Post Office. The IMC met on…
Grahamstown Highway Patrol once gain confiscated a large cache of drugs when they stopped a long distance bus along the N2 between Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth, according to SAPS spokesperson Captain Mali Govender. Officers conducting a routine search of the bus found a black K-WAY sports bag that smelled of chemicals. Inside, they eight packs of 1000 boss Mandrax tablets. The police were unable to trace the contraband to anyone as the bus company does not issue luggage stickers. The seized 7984 tablets have a street value of R439,120. No arrests have been made so far.