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‘As an executive authority, having consulted widely with the executive council and other stakeholders, I have advised the department to stop the hosting of the South African Music Awards this year.’ - MEC Siboniso Duma.

Regionally, South Africa ranks 5th out of 34 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

In one of the letters which was directed at Thabani Nyawose, the Speaker of eThekwini Municipality, the employees said their salaries are still short by R2,000.

The annual marathon is run from Pietermaritzburg to Greytown, but it was halted a few years ago due to funding and the Covid-19 pandemic.

The report, seen by IOL, found that the contract was irregular as the PFMA (Public Finance Management Act) was brazenly ignored - and so were other guidelines that should be followed when using public money.

On Thursday outside the court chambers, Mzwanele Manyi of the Jacob Zuma Foundation alleged that this is a “Stalingrad tactic” on the part of the NPA.

Former president Jacob Zuma brought all his legal guns, advocate Thabani Masuku SC, advocate Nqaba Buthelezi, and Bethuel Thusini, his attorney of records, to the Pietermaritzburg High Court.

‘So the first pressure that should be put on the government is to stop borrowing in a foreign currency, because if the South African government stops doing that, then it has all the preconditions for monetary sovereignty.’

Among those who attended the unveiling and naming ceremony was King Misuzulu Ka Zwelithini, the current reigning monarch of the Zulu nation.

Giving his keynote address, Hlabisa said corruption, nepotism and wasteful expenditure have become the hallmark of the ANC in power.