# Former Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa CEO, Lucky Montana, has described the Special Investigating Unit’s interim order against him as “nonsensical”. The Special Tribunal has granted the SIU an interim preservation order to freeze two properties, worth more than 15-million-rand, owned by Montana. A probe uncovered a money trail linking the properties to […]
# Die uittredende hoof van die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Padagentskap, Reginald Demana, erken die agentskap was nie opgewasse om die padonderhoud-tender van 9,5-miljard-rand aan ʼn paneel van 20 maatskappye toe te ken nie. Die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria het die tender ongrondwetlik en onregmatig verklaar nadat twee konstruksiemaatskappye, BCB Solutions en Botle Ba Afrika Roads, SANRAL se […]
# The South African National Roads Agency Limited says it will revert to open tender processes for routine road maintenance and engineering consultancy services. This comes after the High Court in Pretoria declared the agency’s decision to award routine road maintenance contracts to a panel of 20 companies unconstitutional and unlawful. The tender was aimed […]
# Outgoing South African National Roads Agency Limited CEO, Reginald Demana, has admitted that the agency was ill-equipped to award the 9.5-billion-rand routine road maintenance tender to a panel of 20 companies. The High Court in Pretoria declared the tender unconstitutional and unlawful, after two construction companies, BCB Solutions and Botle Ba Afrika Roads, challenged […]
# Die minister van Samewerkende Regering en Tradisionele Sake, Velenkosini Hlabisa, sê munisipaliteite moet slegs begroot vir uitgawes wat deur beskikbare inkomste gefinansier kan word. Die Nasionale Tesourie gaan die oorblywende 7,1-miljard-rand van die 13,5-miljard-rand in gelykberegtigings-toelaes aan plaaslike regerings wat begin Julie teruggehou is, uitbetaal. Hlabisa waarsku munisipaliteite om nie onbefondsde begrotings goed te […]
# Die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, sê die Nasionale Tesourie moet die toepassing van finansiële bestuursvereistes balanseer met die nodigheid om te keer dat gemeenskappe die gevolge dra van munisipale instellings en amptenare se mislukkings. Die Tesourie gaan die oorblywende befondsing van 7,1-miljard-rand vrystel wat weens growwe finansiële versuim van munisipaliteite weerhou is. Godongwana […]
# Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Velenkosini Hlabisa, says municipalities should only budget for expenditure that can be financed through available revenue. This comes as the National Treasury will release the remaining 7.1-billion-rand of the 13.5-billion-rand in Local Government Equitable Share allocations withheld at the beginning of July. Hlabisa has warned municipalities to […]
# Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana says the National Treasury must balance enforcing financial management requirements with the need to avoid communities carrying the immediate consequences of failures by municipal institutions and officials. This comes as Treasury will release the remaining 7.1-billion-rand in equitable share funding that was withheld from municipalities over serious financial failures. […]
# ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says tackling the rising cost of living is the party’s top priority. Briefing the media, Mbalula called on the government to consider fuel levy relief to help reduce transport and food costs, as global conflicts are driving up oil and fertiliser prices. He also urged the government to prepare for […]
