# Solidarity has rejected the government’s intention to use tax credits from medical aid members to fund the National Health Insurance. The Department of Health is in talks with the National Treasury over changes to the medical aid tax credit regime in a bid to raise an additional 34-billion-rand for NHI. The department’s other noted […]
# Die UDM sê Suid-Afrika se vervoerinfrastruktuur en afdwingingsmeganismes moet dringend versterk word. Dit volg op Sondag se busongeluk, wat die lewens van 42 mense, insluitend sewe kinders, in Limpopo geëis het. Intussen is 18 kinders gisteroggend in ‘n taxi-ongeluk op die N3-snelweg naby die Mariannhill-tolplaza in KwaZulu-Natal beseer. Zandile Phiri van die UDM sê […]
# The Forum for South Africa says it is deeply concerned by the ongoing killings of whistleblowers and the lack of visible action from the Police Ministry. Last month, insolvency attorney Bouwer van Niekerk, who worked on a Gupta-linked insolvency case and also exposed major Ponzi schemes, was gunned down at his Johannesburg office. His […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has expanded the Special Investigating Unit’s probe into the National Lotteries Commission. The scope of the original proclamation has been extended to include fraud and corruption involving procurement by the commission. The amended proclamation also adds 21 new categories of procurement and contracting to the investigation. The SIU’s initial investigation was […]
# ActionSA sê hy is bekommerd dat die Padongelukkefonds heeltemal bankrot is met onopgetekende laste van meer as 500-miljard-rand. Dis byna ʼn vyfde van die nasionale regering se totale jaarlikse begroting. ActionSA se woordvoerder, Matthew George, sê laste wat nie aangeteken is nie, is een van die ernstigste finansiële wanvoorstellings by enige staatsinstelling in demokratiese […]
# Die parlementêre Staande Komitee oor Openbare Rekeninge hoor hierdie week getuienis aan oor die Padongelukkefonds se verkrygings- en finansiële bestuursprosesse. Drie persone sal vandag getuig. Die komitee het verlede week getuienis van die Spesiale Ondersoekeenheid aangehoor wat sistemiese skendings van vertrouenspligte, onregmatige verkrygings en finansiële wanbestuur insluit. Die Ondersoekeenheid het ook talle oortredings van […]
# UDM says South Africa’s transport infrastructure and enforcement mechanisms must be strengthened as a matter of urgency. This follows Sunday’s bus accident, which claimed the lives of 42 people, including seven children, in Limpopo. Meanwhile, a taxi accident left 18 children injured on the N3 highway near the Mariannhill Toll Plaza in KwaZulu-Natal yesterday […]
# The National Task Team on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Expression, and Sex Characteristics says it remains committed to ensuring that the rights of all people are protected and promoted. The task team, which was established in 2011, has expanded its mandate to include the prevention and combating of all human rights violations, discrimination, and barriers […]
# ActionSA says it is concerned that the Road Accident Fund is completely insolvent, with unrecorded liabilities exceeding 500-billion-rand. This amounts to nearly one-fifth of the national government’s entire annual budget. ActionSA’s Matthew George says unrecorded liabilities are one of the most serious financial misstatements by any state entity in democratic South Africa. He says […]
