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The presence of two new Covid-19 subvariants has increased in South Africa; Multiple civil society organisations are calling for clarification on legislative changes to social relief grants; the ANC is proposing a shift to more private sector involvement in the economy.

Civil society organisations are calling for urgent clarification around new regulations related to the R350 Social Relief of Distress grant – which they claim run the risk of excluding many existing beneficiaries. The groups said that in the process of adjusting the SRD to a new legislative framework whereby the processing and payments for April were suspended, and previously approved grant obligations wiped, the April SRD grants are in jeopardy for millions of South Africans.

[Eskom’s board member Busiswe Mavuso is defending her decision to walk out of a Scopa meeting last week after saying that the Eskom board, including its, is CEO Andre De Ruyter, would not be made the scapegoat for the power utility’s historic problems, which she blames the ANC-led government. The scopa chair, Mkhuleko Hlengwa, said that her remarks were theatrics and suppressed the matter. The Democratic Alliance has now asked the National Assembly Speaker to investigate the Scopa chairperson.

 

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