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Hawks are investigating fraud of more than R150 million at Sedibeng Municipality

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A senior investigation team is investigating fraud, corruption and maladministration where there are alleged contracts involved in the Sedibeng municipality.

Sedibeng is in Vereeniging and the municipality’s operations are now being investigated for alleged fraud of more than R150 million.

Godfrey Lebeya from the Hawks unit has appointed senior investigators to investigate the alleged fraud brought to the attention of a Falcon by a group of more than 600 people.

The march in Pretoria appears to have served as a trigger for the Hawks to take action, but experts believe the investigation could take months and concerns about the possibility of prosecution.

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Pathologist finds that Bosasa CEO Gavin Watson was dead before crash

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A private pathologist has found that Gavin Watson was already dead before he crashed his car in Johannesburg last month.

The former Bosasa CEO was found dead in a Toyota Corolla on 26 August after he crashed head-on into a pillar outside Oliver Tambo International Airport around 5am. There are still several unknowns in the case, such as what Watson was doing travelling to the airport with no luggage and why he was without his cellphone.

Now, The Citizen reports that the family hired a private investigator and forensic pathologist, who issued a report to the family saying that Watson had passed before the impact of the accident, ruling out suicide.

“We have five seconds of data from the vehicle before the accident, and we know the vehicle was travelling somewhere between 80-100km/h for five seconds before the accident,” an anonymous family member confirmed with The Citizen.

“The vehicle’s speed was constant over the
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Businesses go bankrupt in SA – Not only Edcon is struggling to keep head above water, many companies are closing their doors and causing unemployment

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It is not only the Edcon clothing industry that is struggling, as many businesses have had to close their doors in recent months.

This is a far darker picture than Edgars had managed to get a loan to relieve his debt burden and retain his staff.

Edcon would not have been able to smoke the pipe if it had not received a lifeline of R2.7 billion, but that benefit did not befall the smaller businesses and more companies were forced to close the doors.

Edcon had another advantage – no one wanted to see its 140,000 workers lose their jobs, but small businesses couldn’t keep their staff, and retrenchment was pretty “unobtrusive”.

Construction company is suffering from poor economic conditions, and Group Five is struggling to keep its 3,500 workers in service.

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Admission lists for the registration of gr. 1- and gr. 8 pupils in 2020 at Afrikaans schools in Gauteng in chaos – no room for mother tongue education

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The new online application system, on which parents could apply for admission for their children between May 13 and July 22, had previously worried many organizations and unions as it left no space in which to indicate applicants’ mother tongue. Furthermore, anarchy is once again threatening at certain Afrikaans schools in the Gauteng province after the Department of Education does not comply with its own requirements for the enrolment of Gr. 1- and gr. 8 pupils in 2020.

Great dissatisfaction prevails in the province after schools on Friday received lists of learners enrolled at schools, especially schools located in the north of Pretoria. The governing body of some accuses the Department of Education of not adhering to agreements on admission policy at schools. According to legal and management consultant Marius Botha, an agreement was reached earlier this year to stop the interdict against the Education Department, on the condition that mother tongue
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SA’s fiscal position – Great possibility that economy will be downgraded to junk status

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Tito Mboweni is expected to paint a gloomy picture of the country’s fiscal position later this month.

The agency Moody’s has had a fairly stable rating so far, but economists warn that the view may change to negative.

Moody’s has already made “negative” comments at its quarterly conference last week. The chance that SA will be finally downgraded to junk status is a possibility, and this is due to the poor growth and continuous cash injection into the country’s bankrupt state intimacies such as Evkom, SAA, Denel and SABC.

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Airlines transports illegal aliens to SA even though Immigration Act of 2002 states that no one can enter the country without a passport

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According to the Foreign Minister, Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi, eight airlines have been fined more than R31 million over the past 2 years after illegal aliens were brought into the country during flights.

The Immigration Act of 2002 states that no one is allowed to enter the country without a passport. Undocumented immigrants may be arrested without a warrant. Despite the fact that eight airlines were ordered to raise R8.8 million in 2016-17, they did not pay and breached on a larger scale, with fines amounting to R22.6 million in the following financial year.

Emirates faces fines of R2.67 million and R6.96 million, respectively, and tops the list of offenders, with the South African Airways (SAA) second, with fines of R2.16 million and R4.44 million. The other culprits are Ethiopian Airlines (R1.7 million and R4.1 million), Kenya Airways (R390 000 and R2.34 million), British Airways (R975 000 and R1.35 million), Qatar Airways (R435 000 and R1, 34 million), Rwandair (R225 00
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Imported milk from Poland is causing SA dairy farmers to suffer financially

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A dairy farmer Rudolf Burger, from Brandfort in the Free State is upset after he recently discovered a consignment of long-life milk under Woodlands Dairy’s First Choice brand, hailing from Poland at one of SA’s large retailer groups Metro. According to him, South African dairy farmers can supply enough milk to meet local demand. It is totally unnecessary to import long-life milk.

Burger sketches the picture and says that he is certain that Polish dairy farmers are subsidized, South African dairy farmers are in a difficult position due to rising costs such as wages, power and fuel. However, he believes there should be import tariffs on imported milk and other agricultural products because in most cases the consumer is not favoured and the trader is the only one benefiting.

According to Mr. Lex Gutsche, chairman and CEO of Woodlands Dairy, the Polish milk in question was imported to make sure there was enough milk on the shelves in winter. This
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These are the 30 most crime-ridden areas in South Africa, based on crimes reported

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The South African Police Service (SAPS) has released its crime stats for the 2018/19 period, outlining which areas in the country have recorded the most crime in the past year. The stats cover 21 crime categories – 17 of which are reported by the public, and four of which are as a result of police..
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278 pieces of state land identified for redistribution in the Western Cape – more land that would become useless when distributed among incompetent people

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The ANC’s deputy president, David Mabuza, says the government has already identified 278 pieces of state land in the Western Cape that could be used for redistribution.

Mabuza was the speaker at an event in the Western Cape and used the opportunity to praise the province’s Prime Minister, Alan Winde, saying “he is a very good man”.

Asked about economic prospects, Mabuza said the government is working to implement the National Development Plan, but economists say nothing has come of it and is a stillborn plan.

It is suspected that the hundreds of pieces of land will also be useless when it is distributed to untrained people.

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Malfunctioning ANC regime is pushing agriculture across an economic abyss and is calling for the destruction of SA’s food security

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The TAU is of the opinion that the malfunctioning ANC government is actively pushing the agricultural sector across an economic abyss and is calling for the accelerating rate of destruction of South Africa’s food security.

This according to Mr. Johan Steyn, Chairman: TAU SA Eastern Cape, following the revelation that the government could not convince the World Animal Health Organization (EIA) to declare South Africa as foot-and-mouth free.

“According to our information, the Department of Agriculture, Rural Development and Land Reform was supposed to make two submissions to the EIA,” he says. “The purpose of this was to restore our country’s foot-and-mouth disease status. At the first submission, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (OVI) did not want to release the serological results because the OVI department owes money. With the second submission that was due to take place, Onderstepoort was unable to analyze because no sampl
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