Acting Mayor Thsonono Buyeye has announced Anele Qaba as the new acting municipal manager following the arrest of Mvuleni Mapu.Mapu and local businesswoman Bulelwa Eunice Ntanga-Mkwakwi were each granted bail of R20 000 by the Port Elizabeth Magistrate's Court on Friday.They stand accused of fraud and corruption involving a R14 million RDP housing tender granted…
Acting Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor, Councillor Tshonono Buyeye (right). The Eastern Cape Nelson Mandela Bay metro will be placed under administration. Cogta MEC Xolile Nqatha has alerted the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality of his intentions to invoke Section 139(1) of the Constitution. The metro has been without a mayor since December 2019. Eastern Cape Cogta MEC Xolile Nqatha has…
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. The Eastern Cape Cogta department says the Nelson Mandela Bay metro has no desire to elect a new mayor.The metro has been without an elected mayor since December 2019. This as National Treasury vows to withhold its R800 million grant funding if they do not fill the vacancy. It's…
UN Secretary-General, António Guterres. (@NelsonMandela, Twitter) During his address at the 18th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture, UN Secretary-General, António Guterres said a new social contract was needed to overcome inequalities and the global pandemic. Addressing different forms of global inequalities based on race, gender, class and other factors, Guterres said inequalities have reached "crisis proportions".However, he said…
The Nelson Mandela Foundation will be hosting a virtual annual lecture that will be live from Johannesburg and the United Nations in New York City.Antonio Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, will deliver the 18th annual lecture.This year's Mandela Day lecture will be dedicated to Mandela's late daughter, Zindzi, who died this week. Nelson…
KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed federal policy on vaccine research, vaping, and drug access on Science Friday on May 8. Rovner also discussed the Supreme Court decision on the abortion pill mifepristone on NPR’s Morning Edition on May 5. Click here to hear Rovner on Science Friday. Click here to hear
Here in Washington, we’ve been hearing about tensions between the White House and one of its most controversial — but, at least in some circles, most popular — figures: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Polling of likely voters indicates that the Health and Human Services secretary can be an asset to Republicans when he’s talking about improving the nation’s food supply or labeling ultraprocessed foods. But when he’s talking about removing recommendations for routine childhood vaccinations, he can be a detriment. So, when I
Several states have joined President Donald Trump’s deportation efforts and are taking federal reporting requirements to immigration authorities a step further — by using their public health agencies as arms of enforcement. North Carolina, in late April, became the latest member of a growing group of Republican-led states to require their public health agencies to