Tag: Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
Cash-strapped Mangaung forfeited over R400m
The troubled Bloemfontein-based Mangaung Metro Municipality in the Free State forfeited over R400 million of the national conditional grant meant for much-needed service delivery.
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Budget vote continues despite threats of disruption
Mangaung Metro Municipality Executive Mayor, Mxolisi Siyonzana, will table the City's budget vote for the 2022/23 financial year today, despite the initial postponement due...
Chaotic protests erupt at embattled Mangaung Metro
Chaotic protests have erupted at the troubled Bloemfontein-based Mangaung Metro Municipality, with hundreds of irate workers protesting over the non-payment of their salaries.
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Cabinet representatives to be deployed to Mangaung shortly
National Cabinet Representatives (NCR) will shortly be deployed to the Mangaung Metro Municipality shortly for assumption of responsibilities. This comes after it was announced...
A greater Free State underway
The Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta), Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, has announced that under the Presidential Imbizo’s theme “Leave no one behind”, the...
SCA judges asked to recuse themselves
The organisation for social justice, the Liberty Fighters Network (LFN), and its president Reyno de Beer have lodged an application asking the Bloemfontein-based Supreme...
Cogta minister takes lockdown judgment to Bfn SCA
Minister of Cooperative Governance (Cogta), Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, is on Wednesday taking the Pretoria High Court judgment regarding lockdown level 3 and 4 to the...
IEC not ruling out postponement of local government elections
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) is not ruling out the possibility of postponing the local government elections on 27 October this year.
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Some unexpected regulations for SA’s adjusted level 3 lockdown
South Africans learn on Monday that alcohol sales would not be allowed under the amended level 3 lockdown regulations, effective as of Tuesday, but...
Minister banned tobacco well knowing it would boost illicit trade, her...
The recent boom in the illicit cigarette trade as a result of the national ban on tobacco product sales during the Covid-19 pandemic, came...
Court postpones hearing on reopening of hair salons
The Western Cape High Court on Friday postponed the hearing of the legal challenge to the continued closure of hair salons by 10 days...
#CoronavirusSA: Hard to say when cigarette ban will be lifted –...
President Cyril Ramaphosa says it's difficult to determine when the ban on the sale of cigarettes will be lifted, but that the progression of...
Group heads to Union Buildings, Parliament to protest against tobacco ban
A group calling itself Unite Against the Tobacco Ban will be gathering outside the Union Buildings in Pretoria, as well as outside Parliament tomorrow,...
Cigarettes will be back at Level 2, says Presidency
Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu has indicated to South Africa’s smokers that their favourite fix will likely return at Level 2 of the...
Outa asks for moratorium on salary increases for municipal workers
Amid a nationwide lockdown in which salaries are cut and jobs are lost as companies countrywide close, municipalities too should make sacrifices in terms...
Ramaphosa to address the nation at 7pm amid report that booze...
President Cyril Ramaphosa will address the nation at 7pm on Sunday about developments in South Africa’s risk-adjusted strategy to manage the spread of Covid-19.
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Court battle to lift ciggies, booze ban ‘will continue’
Those outraged by a report that Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is fighting for the ban on cigarette and alcohol sales...
Government gives the low-down on Level 4 lockdown
Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Minister of Trade and Industry Ebrahim Patel provided a detailed briefing from Pretoria on...