"She said 5 452 Eskom officials were found to have failed to submit declarations of interest while 60 of the referrals relate to officials who were either doing business with Eskom or failed to declare their interests in outside business entities."
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Msunduzi Municipality is crumbling and money is running out. Yet the city is willing to spend R27 million to sponsor the Royal AM football club. The mayor says it makes perfect sense, residents disagree. Watch the full story now on the #CarteBlanche website. @govanwhittles
@Lesufi Good day Mr Lusufi I'd like to get some clarity about the Youth Brigades contracts, you have not been clear about the duration and the contracts, nothing has been signed yet, all you said about the duration is "forever" until the national government explain, after that then what?
When a fly falls into a cup of coffee:
The Italian - throws the cup, breaks it, and walks away in a fit of rage.
The German - carefully washes the cup, sterilizes it, and makes a new cup of coffee.
The Frenchman - takes out the fly and drinks the coffee.
The Chinese - eats the fly and throws away the coffee.
The Russian - drinks the coffee with the fly, since it comes with no extra charge.
The Israeli - sells the coffee to the Frenchman, sells the fly to the Chinese, sells the cup to the Italian, drinks a cup of tea, and uses the extra money to invent a device that prevents flies from falling into coffee.
The Palestinian - blames the Israeli for the fly falling into his coffee, protests the act to the UN as an act of aggression, takes a loan from the European Union to buy a new cup of coffee, uses the money to purchase explosives, and then blows up the coffee house where the Italian, Frenchman, Chinese, German and Russian are all trying to explain to the Israeli that he should give his cup of tea to the Palestinian.
I was today years old when the Department of Sports Arts and Culture responded to my PAIA application to inform me that they spent R1,361,000 on TWO Superfans on flights and accommodation ALONE, and this was just for the 2023 Rugby World Cup.
How did they select them? Well, according to the department, there isn't actually an official initiative. The "Superfans" managed to speak to the department at O.R. Tambo on the 28th of August 2023 (11 days before the tournament started) and asked if they could go.
Talk about being at the right place at the right time. What's quite strange then is how some of these "Superfans" appear to always be at the right place at the right time. The Department failed to provide expenses for the following trips which some of these "Superfans" attended:
2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup – NZ/AUS
2023 Women’s Netball World Cup – Cape Town
2022 Fifa World Cup – Qatar
2019 Fifa Women’s World Cup - France
2016 Rio Olympic Games
The Minister and his delegates spent R7,790,000 at the same 2023 Rugby World Cup.
Business Class Flights (R150,000), Executive Vehicles (R17,500 per day), Executive Hotel Rooms (R14,500 per night), and access to VIP Lounges (R7,000 per visit) are some of the things the taxpayers had to fund.
The absolutely heartbreaking part here is that we have young talented sports stars from across the country who have to play barefoot, wear hand-me-down kits with make-shift equipment, and can't even dream of watching their heroes in action because the same superfans, politicians, and their friends, have to enjoy the very best in life, not once, not twice, but over and over again.
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