Sterling Work from SAPS Agriculture Officials Probed in Corruption Scandal -P3
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Our newspapers are read by more than 150 000 people weekly Tap here to read online Sterling work from SAPS Agriculture officials probed in corruption scandal -p3- Grant payment dates moved Established 1889 Police offi cers display some of the stolen goods recovered during an opera� on in Kanana near 13 Martin Street; Galleria Arcade; Shop no 1 & 2 S� lfontein. They are from le� to right (seated) Sergeant Sello Mabaso, Constable Kagisho Motsamai, E-mail: mailbag@mafi kengmail.co.za GPS Co-ordinates: 25” 51’ 49,42 S • 25” 35’ 40,52 E Sgt Maleho Sethibe. Standing is Const Mar� n Mojahi, Sgt Shaka Mogapi and Sgt Kitse Kgaratsi with seized goods. For the full story see page 11. 29 MAY 2020 Tel: 018 381 1330/ 381 2884 Fax: 018 381 0425 R4-00 Lockdown rates extended VAT INCL PAGE 2 MAHIKENG MAIL 29 MAY 2020 Community members from Mmabatho Unit 15 and 9 has cleaned illegal dumping Illegal dumping side within their vicinity that was posing a health risk. According to Tebogo Malebe site converted who took it upon herself to knock at most of the houses of the affected surroundings, to rewarding said the situation was unbearable and posing detrimental health risks. “It is also garden our responsibility as community members to take care of our environment and make it a conducive place to stay at,” emphasised By: Thabo Seadira Malebe. Residents working together with Community Safety personnel from the municipality left no stone unturned in taking part in the project. After removing all the rubbish, they fenced the area to protect trees and flowers which they planted and also to prohibit any further littering. The project leader thanked everybody who contributed and further requested residents to always keep the area clean. Councillor Betty Diakanyo Mayor of Mahikeng Local Municipality endorsed the initiative and appealed to other communities to follow such. OneSA has established a comprehensive food Food relief for Mahikeng families distribution operation to provide staple foods packages to poor and vulnerable families in our country’s informal settlements. OneSA has worked hard to make sure that food parcels were delivered to families that needed them. The organization has partnered with community organisations, NGOs, religious bodies and businesses to make sure that families in need receive food. OneSA has extended its operation to Mahikeng and has already delivered 37 food parcels in Tsetse village and seven in Moshawana village. The organization has also geared up to continue this campaign for another two days because South Africans are subject to increasing levels of poverty and joblessness. &DVK$GYDQFH :KLOHZDLWLQJIRU 9 3HQVLRQ3DFNDJH 9 3URYLGHQWIXQG 9 5RDG$FFLGHQW)XQG 9 3UR¿WIURP6DOHRI+RXVH 2IÀFHQR_&DUULQJWRQ 6WUHHW_0DÀNHQJ &HOO 29 MAY 2020 MAHIKENG MAIL PAGE 3 Two Agriculture and Rural Social Grants not Development officials suspended available on June 1 MAHIKENG MAIL-MAHIKENG: Another department in the North West province has suspended its CFO and Director of Supply Chain Management (SCM). These officials are in the Administration reportedly awarded between 2018 and of Agriculture and Rural Development. 2019 costing the department R30 million The two were suspended on May 13 for per annum and were given to the alleged the irregularities allegedly involving a companies wherein Tshireletso Security total of R60 million. received five security contracts and Both the CFO and the director allegedly Rainbow security receiving one contract. failed to uphold the Public Finance Following investigations by Mafikeng Management Act (PFMA) and irregularly Mail, the department of Agriculture and awarded six security tender contracts Rural Development this week confirmed worth R60 million to brothers originating the suspension of the two officials with from the same family who are also owners the possibility of further probing into of Tshireletso and Rainbow security additional irregularities involving the services. The two-year contracts were two security companies. MAFIKENG MAIL - MAHIKENG: South African Social Security Agency beneficiaries have been advised not to go to banks and retailers on June 1 to collect their grants. Payments will only start on June 3 and will be staggered according to grant types. The Speaker responds agency has adjusted its payment cycle due to Covid-19. Old Age and Disability Grant beneficiaries an additional R250.00 grant as they did during will receive their grants on June 3 and 4. the month of May until the end of October to DA alligations This will include child support grants linked 2020. Child Support Grant beneficiaries will to these beneficiaries. All other grants such as now receive 500.00 per Primary Care Giver Child Support, Foster and Care Dependency as opposed to the R300.00 per child that they of misconduct grants will be paid from June 5. Payments at received during the month of May 2020. cash pay points will resume on June 8 to 12. Beneficiaries are urged to come along with MAFIKENG MAIL – MAHIKENG: In response Beneficiaries are also made aware that these their ID documents to collect their grants in to the DA’s statement last week in which the payments will include the grant increments order to be prioritised when receiving services opposition party said they would lay alleged that was announced by President Cyril and to come on dates that their money will be misconduct charges against the North West Ramaphosa in order to relieve the distress as available. Communities are urged to observe provincial Legislature and senior managers in a result of covid-19. Older Persons, Disability social distancing during the payment of social the organisation, the Speaker of the North West and Foster Care Grant recipients will receive grants. Provincial Legislature, Sussana Dantjie, said she had noted the media statement issued by the Democratic Alliance on 21 May 2020, titled “DA to lay charges of alleged misconduct against senior managers in the NW Provincial Legislature”. Dantjie said in her reaction that the DA “make wild accusations about herself and North West Provincial senior management of the Legislature, Speaker, institution and welcomes the Sussana Dantjie. steps they allege to have taken to report the matter to law enforcement and Oversight agencies like the South African Police Service, the Public Protector and the Public Service Commissioner. “Given the severity of the allegations, let us allow the Presiding officers of the North West Provincial Legislature, led by myself (the Speaker) to consider them and at an appropriate time we will issue a full statement on the position of the Legislature. “The Secretary to the Legislature, Mr Oageng Mosiane, and all involved parties, have been advised to allow the processes as alleged to be initiated by the DA to unfold without any interruptions and to cooperate fully with law enforcement and oversight agencies,” said Dantjie. PAGE 4 MAHIKENG MAIL 29 MAY 2020 Dear Fellow South Africans Today marks 57 years since the leaders of 32 the virus was unknown. It was not something the across the continent to distribute medical supplies. on the support of the international community independent African nations met in Addis Ababa to world has experienced for over a century. African The aim is to pool the procurement of diagnostics and international financial institutions to bolster establish the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), countries have been able to use their experience in and other medical commodities. the existing continental effort and build economic the precursor to the African Union. managing outbreaks of malaria, cholera, HIV, TB The deployment of community health workers resilience, African countries are holding their own. The preamble of the OAU charter is a rousing call and hemorrhagic viruses like Ebola and Lassa. Our to do screening, testing, contact tracing and This Africa Day we are reminded once again to unity, cross-cultural understanding and solidarity. understanding of communicable diseases and how case management is happening in many African that the solutions to Africa’s problems, be they Like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to manage them has put us in good stead when it countries, and draws heavily on our experience overcoming disease or eradicating poverty and the UN Charter and the South African Constitution, comes to coronavirus. with HIV and TB. African nations have also underdevelopment, reside within Africa itself. it affirms the inalienable right of all people to African governments have been swift and joined the race to produce test kits, with Senegal Although the coronavirus pandemic is not an control their own destiny. We mark Africa Day this proactive in implementing measures to flatten in an advanced stage of developing a low-cost African problem alone, we have shown ourselves year just over three months since the first case of the coronavirus curve. By early May, 43 African testing kit. At lease 25 African countries have capable of agility and ingenuity. coronavirus on the continent was confirmed. This countries had full border closures, 53 had closed registered clinical trials for possible COVID-19 The work being done to defeat the coronavirus pandemic has been a stark reminder that regardless institutions of learning, 54 had limited public treatments, including for the BCG vaccine, is evidence of a continent determined to leverage of whether we are born into wealth or indigence, gatherings, 26 had instituted the compulsory use of hydroxychloroquine, antiretrovirals and Remdesivir, its strengths and capabilities