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Government is not committed to the empowerment of Africans, says Shivambu
Shivambu has questioned why the state has not used its procurement power to invest in marginalised groups as opposed to relying on imports.
Treasury explained that the money comes from the World Bank's development policy loan product and that the country, by its response to COVID-19 and social-economic programmes, qualified for it.
Newcomer ActionSA continues to surprise in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, but the Economic Freedom Fighters said that there was nothing special about the party.
As three activists walked free after six months in jail, it was again clear that the ANC, in cahoots with the police and justice system, keeps grinding popular dissent against the rock of repression.
An acknowledgement of debt contract seen by the 'Daily Maverick' revealed that the Brian Shivambu, the brother of EFF deputy president Floyd, signed the contract in March last year, admitting that he received millions of rands for doing nothing.
Shivambu made the claim last week during a meeting of the ad hoc committee looking at amending Section 25 of the Constitution to deal with the expropriation of land without compensation.
President Cyril Ramaphosa told MPs that South Africa has secured enough vaccines to dose 41.5 million people, but he cautioned that there could be delivery issues that were beyond the government’s control.
Treasury officials, though, said that the formation of the bank had been delayed by the many discussions with affected departments.
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng made the disturbing revelation to the Judicial Services Commission, which has been interviewing candidates for the Constitutional Court on Tuesday.
It followed claims that the the minister tried to influence the appointment of judges.
Floyd Shivambu is charged with allegedly having assaulted Media24 multimedia journalist Adrian de Kock in the Parliamentary precinct in 2018 and was captured on camera.
The comments come amid a parliamentary process which is looking at amending section 25 of the Constitution to allow expropriation without compensation.
The EFF elected its new top 6 leaders on Saturday at the party’s second elective conference , which was attended by an estimated 3,000 delegates.
Julius Malema and his deputy Floyd Shivambu retained their positions as president and deputy president respectively, the rest of the new EFF leadership is completely new.
EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu said that the Daily Maverick was banned from EFF events for being what he called a 'propaganda' publication for the interests of the ANC's pro-Pravin Gordhan faction.
EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu confirmed that all 76 busses that transported delegates to the party's elective conference had arrived in Gauteng. He said it was all systems go, with the official programme expected to get underway at 9am on 14 December 2019.
An investigation of fraud at VBS Mutual Bank allegedly revealed a slush fund used to channel money from the bank. The company account used belongs to EFF leader Julius Malema's cousin.
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema was responding to reports by the Daily Maverick's investigative unit Scorpion, that more than R5 million was channeled from VBS Bank into an account the red beret leader used as a slush fund.