Daily news update: Covid-19 stats, IMF’s $4.3bn loan, Bushiri fraud case and the Diko tender scandal

cases now stands at 452,529 – an increase of 7,096 from Sunday. South Africa has also passed an important milestone as the total number of deaths reach 7,067, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has announced.

According to National Treasury, the additional IMF funding is a low interest loan that contributes to government’s fiscal relief package “while respecting South Africa’s decisions on how best to provide relief to the economy and those worst affected by the current crisis”. Former minister of police Nathi Nhleko on Monday explained to the chairperson of the commission of inquiry into state capture, Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, how it came about that during his tenure at the ministry he employed a convicted fraudster.

Spokesperson to the President, Khusela Diko, has requested the Presidency to allow her to take leave of absence from all official roles in government, pending investigations on recent allegations involving her and her husband in multimillion-rand tender irregularities in the Gauteng Department of Health.

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