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SCOPA LAUNCH INQUIRY INTO RAF FINANCIAL MATTERS @KASIBC_AFRICA ONLINE EDITOR @KASIBC_AFRICA  The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) has today resolved to launch a full committee inquiry into allegations of maladministration, financial mismanagement, wasteful and reckless expenditure, and related financial misconduct at the Road Accident Fund (RAF).   This decision follows months of repeated attempts by the committee to obtain truthful, complete information from the RAF Board and executive management, to little avail. The committee cannot perform its work effectively if state entities do not provide it with complete and truthful information, with adequate context and supporting information.   Some of the issues of concern for the committee include but are not limited to: •Failure to perform adequate background checks on senior management and executive appointments who nonetheless have access to and manage significant sums of public funds despite having a deeply ...

  MAKEKASIGREAT©®™ NATIONAL LOTTO TENDER WORTH BILLIONS @KASIBC_AFRICA  ONLINE EDITOR @KASIBC_AFRICA   COMMITTEE NOTES THE NATIONAL LOTTERY LICENCE AWARD PROCESS AND EXPLANATION ON THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST QUESTIONS     Parliament, Tuesday, 24 June 2025 – The Portfolio Committee on Trade, Industry and Competition has noted the explanation provided after concerns raised on the process surrounding the awarding of the fourth National Lottery Licence.    The committee today engaged the Executive led by the Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Mr Parks Tau, and the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) on the process of appointing a new National Lottery operator and the steps taken to ensure continued lottery operations.   This comes after the successful appointment of the fourth new National Lottery licensee, on 28 May 2025. The committee, as part of its oversight mandate, has been monitoring the process to ensure openness, transparency and...

  MAKEKASIGREAT©®™ WORLD BANK US$1.5BILLION LOAN @KASIBC_AFRICA ONLINE EDITOR @KASIBC_AFRICA The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) notes, with serious concern, the announcement by the National Treasury that South Africa has signed a loan agreement to the amount of US$1.5 billion with the World Bank for so-called infrastructure modernisation and development.  The EFF reiterates its long-held position that institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) are instruments of neoliberalism and neocolonialism, used by Western imperialist powers to perpetuate the underdevelopment of the global South, and Africa in particular.  These institutions mask their agenda through development rhetoric, while attaching loan conditions that undermine sovereignty, impose austerity, and erode the developmental state. The National Treasury, acting as a conduit for this imperial agenda, often conceals these conditions or frames them as mere administrative reforms, when in...

BREAD PRICES HIKE  @KASIBC_AFRICA ONLINE EDITOR The DA is proud to recognise a victory by Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen, which will stop the price of bread from going up. Minister Steenhuisen has identified and terminated an inherited arrangement where a supplier had been authorized to conduct quality inspections of breads and grains at retailers across the country. The DA notes that national retailers have confirmed that Minister Steenhuisen’s actions will stop a price hike on bread loaves. The contract that the DA Leader has terminated would have allowed a service provider to charge retailers for an unnecessary testing service. And retailers would have had to pass this extra charge on to South Africans buying their bread. In the Government of National Unity DA Ministers are implementing policy and regulations that can drive down the cost of living, and can also stop rising prices. The DA is engaged in fighting against the rising cost of living, in every way that we can...

MAKE KASI GREAT @KASIBC_AFRICA JULIUS MALEMA SPEAKS AT 10 FIGHTERS FUNERAL AFTER 16JUNE2025 YOUTH DAY EVENT  @KASIBC_AFRICA CIC JULIUS MMALEMA SPEECH :  Programme Director, Members of the Bereaved Families, Fighters, Comrades, and Fellow South Africans. We gather here today in collective grief.  We are here to lay to rest the young lives of our beloved children, brothers, sisters, and comrades: Sbongakonke Mathe (17) Ntombi Ndlovu (19) Lungani Sunday Mbatha (25) Phumlani Zulu (46) Thokozani Mashazi (29) Ayanda Khumalo (27) Qhwalisile Sibisi (44) Manqele Sboniso (23) Thuthukani Dube (26) Siyanda Twala (23)  These are not just names in a headline or numbers in a report. These were young people who had dreams.  They were full of life, full of promise, and full of the courage that defines the children of working-class and oppressed families, those who know struggle not from history books, but from daily survival. They died while in pursuit of life. They were travell...

SANDF ASSASSINATIONS SCANDAL MOORHOUSE REPORT  @KASIBC_AFRICA ONLINE EDITOR @KASIBC_AFRICA The DA demands the urgent release of the hidden Moorhouse Report.  Twelve SANDF members were arrested for a top investigator’s assassination. The report exposes rogue SANDF networks tied to torture, smuggling, and killings. The Democratic Alliance (DA) calls for the immediate release of the Moorhouse Report, which the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) continues to conceal from Parliament and the public. This follows the arrest of 12 SANDF members in connection with the 2023 assassination of Hawks investigator, Lieutenant Colonel Frans Mathipa. The arrests have intensified pressure for transparency, particularly regarding the report’s alleged findings on illegal SANDF activities. The Moorhouse Board of Inquiry was reportedly established after whistleblower Thulane Ndawo, a former Military Police officer, exposed illegal detentions, torture, and unauthorised operations in 2021. ...

DEATH OF TWO DAN RADEBE PRIMARY BY POSSIBLE DROWNING @KASIBC_AFRICA ONLINE EDITOR @KASIBC_AFRICA Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane is deeply saddened by the tragic passing of two Grade 5 boy learners from Dan Radebe Primary School in Duduza, Ekurhuleni.  The two learners, who were close friends and in the same class, are suspected to have drowned after their bodies were discovered in a water pond on Friday, 20 June 2025. It is alleged that the learners were reported missing on Thursday, 19 June 2025. Subsequently, their bodies were found during a search mission by Emergency Services in a water pond that was reportedly formed by excavations at a nearby construction site, in Duduza. According to the community; this large, rain-filled pit, unsecured and unmarked, has become a hazardous attraction for informal swimming to children in the area. The South African Police Service (SAPS) is investigating circumstances surrounding this incident. The GDE’s Psycho-Social Support Unit has b...