EDITOR’S LUNCHBOX: Will the speaker or won’t she?
MPs get set for long days working on the Eskom inquiry, and officials at nearly every second municipality have been awarded contracts
Stories of Note Bytes from the digital world Now that the Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that the decision to hold the vote by secret ballot is at the speaker’s discretion, National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete will have to weigh up her ambitions of being the ANC’s next leader and decide whether she will go against President Jacob Zuma, of whom she has been a strong supporter. MPs have been told to prepare themselves for long days and potential weekend work as they set about uncovering the rot at Eskom, in an inquiry scheduled to start on August 1. In My Opinion Matters of debate Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu found that at almost every second municipality, 110 municipalities in total, state employees were awarded contracts. At 46 municipalities, employees failed to declare their family members’ interest in awards and at 24 municipalities, employees failed to declare themselves. Metadata sleuthing by the Daily Maverick’s Scorpio team has found that one of the names linked to ...
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