EDITOR’S LUNCHBOX: Spanners in grants works and why Durban lost out
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini’s role in the social-grants crisis is getting clearer. How broken promises cost Durban the Commonwealth Games
Stories of Note Bytes from the digital world Delay in solving the crisis in distribution of 17-million social grants appears to have been engineered by a group of consultants acting at Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini’s behest. The Commonwealth Games Federation ruled on Monday that Durban had failed to keep promises it made in its bid to host the games in 2022. The federation is now looking for a replacement city. A small yellow robot submarine, called Boaty McBoatface after a competition to name a new polar research ship backfired, is being sent on its first Antarctic mission. In My Opinion Matters of debate "An asset-grabbing mindset is sweeping through the country, but it will have no effect on growth or inequality," Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas said at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (Gibs) on Monday. In 2016, SA imposed tariffs that raised the cost of wheat about a third. With this kind of policy in place, it’s not surprising that the price of bre...
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