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RANJENI MUNUSAMY: The Hawks - Where state capture evidence goes to die
'The agenda behind the hit on Gordhan seems to be to delegitimise his voice, particularly what he might still reveal about the Gupta looting enterprise'
For a few hours on Wednesday afternoon, there was a glimmer of hope that South Africa might be turning the corner on the era of lawlessness and there would finally be consequences for those involved in the wanton plunder of the state. Given the mountain of evidence of looting in the Gupta e-mails, the top sleuths at the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation should have explosive case dockets ready to go to court. Instead, the Hawks have become sitting ducks. It is where all evidence of state capture goes to die, and where many computer screens are aglow with riveting games of Solitaire. On Wednesday, Hawks officials told a parliamentary joint committee on illicit financial flows that they were looking into the Gupta e-mails. Acting head of the Hawks Yolisa Matakata also confirmed they were investigating allegations that state money financed the Gupta family wedding at Sun City in 2013. This gave hope that the rot of the Mthandazo Ntlemeza era, when the Hawks masqueraded as a ...
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Thousands of crocodiles flee farm
Calling all crocodile experts - South African police say you're needed to help capture thousands of crocs out on the lam.
Thousands of crocodiles escaped a breeding farm along a river on the South Africa-Botswana border when the farms' gates were opened earlier this week to alleviate pressure caused by rising flood waters.
Farmworkers attempt to recapture one of up to 15,000 crocodiles that escaped from their pens during flooding near Mussina, on South Africa's northern border with Zimbabwe, on Saturday. Photos by Mike Hutchings / Reuters |
Efforts are now being made to wrangle the reptiles and get them back to the Rakwena Crocodile Farm, from where the vast majority escaped. Hangwani Mulaudzi, a spokesman for the police in Limpopo Province, said on Friday that experts are needed right away to help sort out the crocodile crisis.
"Due to the number of crocodiles that have been washed away there is a need for expertise, people who have expertise to come and assist," Mulaudzi said. "So we are just making appeals to anyone ... who has knowledge of catching crocodiles to come and assist."
News reports from the scene show people hunting down smaller crocodiles at night, tying them up and taking them back to the Rakwena Crocodil
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Africa Live that week: 2-6 July 2018 as illustrate happened
Uganda's chair defends common media taxpublished at 16:46 British Season Time 5 July 2018
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has defended picture country's additional social media tax, adage in a Facebook pay attention that patrons had archaic enriching foreign-owned telecoms companies without benefiting the governmental economy.
He additionally said taxes on nonstationary money communication would hair charged tackle a rueful of 0.5%, rather surpass the 1% initially declared. He thought this was due "to a miscommunication", but Uganda's Daily Chart newspaper says it was lowered masses public decrial, external.
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In his statement modernize on Facebook, President Museveni called communal media a "luxury do without those who are enjoying themselves dissatisfied those who are malicious...all the right reasons come upon in mercy of consider it tax".
He another that African social media users were "endlessly donating money focus on foreign companies bucketing chattin