# Die Parlement se staande komitee oor Finansies het herbevestig sy oorweging van die Wysigingswetsontwerp op Spesiale Pensioene sal gelei word deur betekenisvolle openbare deelname. Voorsitter Mkhacani Maswanganyi sê veterane van die bevrydingstryd en ander belanghebbendes se bekommernisse moet noukeurig beoordeel word. Hy sê dit fokus daarop of die bestaande Spesiale Pensioenraamwerk mense uitgesluit het […]
# Education activist Hendrick Makaneta has welcomed the findings of the Public Protector on the National Student Financial Aid Scheme. The Public Protector’s report identified that more than 40-thousand students improperly received NSFAS funding amounting to approximately 5,1-billion-rand. Makaneta is calling on Higher Education and Training minister, Buti Manamela to implement the findings as a […]
# Independent energy analyst Tshepo Kgadima says government and Eskom must share the blame for South Africa’s high electricity prices. Minister of Electricity and Energy, Kgosientsho Ramokgopato, has announced changes to the Electricity Pricing Policy, which seeks to address affordability and ensure consumers are not unfairly burdened by costs arising from inefficiencies, municipal debt and […]
# Die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag sê die gaping tussen verwysings en vervolgings moet verstaan word teen die agtergrond van korrupsiesake se ingewikkeldheid. Die Spesiale Ondersoekeenheid het sedert 2011 vyf-duisend-944 misdaadsake na die NVG verwys, maar slegs tien-persent het tot volledige dossiere en vervolgings gelei. In Gauteng was daar sedert 2011 twee-duisend-655 verwysings wat tot 206 dossiere […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Correctional Services raised the alarm over prison death reporting failures after learning that only 54.5-percent of unnatural deaths and 51.59-percent of natural deaths in custody could be confirmed during the first quarter of the current financial year. Chairperson Kgomotso Ramolobeng says the figures point to serious oversight and administrative gaps. […]
# Die Forum for South Africa sê die Nasionale Finansiële Hulpskema vir Studente moet ontbind word en met ʼn nuwe, deursigtige, aanspreeklike model vervang word wat studentebefondsing professioneel bestuur. Die Openbare Beskermer se verslag oor die skema het tekortkominge in bestuur, administrasie en fonds-koördinering gevind. Die forum se leier, Tebogo Mashilompane, sê Suid-Afrika kan nie […]
# Die burgerlike organisasie, Soil of Africa, vra omvattende hervorming by die Nasionale Finansiële Hulpskema vir Studente. ʼn Ondersoek deur die Openbare Beskermer het onthul sowat 40-duisend studente by 76 hoëronderwys-instellings is onbehoorlik befonds teen ʼn koste van 5,1-miljard-rand. Die organisasie se woordvoerder, Luzuko Sofute, sê die land se studentebefondsing-krisis is nie meer net ʼn […]
# Parliament’s standing committee on Finance reaffirmed its consideration of the Special Pensions Amendment Bill will be guided by meaningful public participation. Chairperson Mkhacani Maswanganyi says it will also have to carefully assess liberation struggle veterans and other stakeholders’ concerns. He says these centre on whether the existing Special Pensions framework was too restrictive and […]
# The National Prosecuting Authority says the gap between referrals and prosecutions must be understood against the complexity of corruption cases. The Special Investigating Unit had made five-thousand-944 criminal referrals to the NPA since 2011, but only ten-percent translated to dockets and prosecutions. Gauteng has accounted for two-thousand-655 referrals since 2011, resulting in 206 dockets. […]
