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Burning issue: At stake is the structure and continuity of the Working on Fire programme, which both opposing side describe in court papers as critical to wildfire prevention and suppression capacity across all nine provinces. Photo: File
DFFE

Working on Fire sues over tender

Working on Fire seeks to halt the award of the national wildfire management contract to Tefla, while the department and Tefla oppose the urgent relief

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson says the Expanded Public Works Programme is too important to be captured by corruption.
AGSA

eThekwini pushes back as Macpherson halts EPWP funding over corruption claims

eThekwini says it is cooperating with investigations into EPWP corruption, including claims of “jobs for sex” and ghost workers

  • Lyse Comins
4 min read
Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure Dean Macpherson
AGSA

EPWP funding to eThekwini halted over ‘jobs for sex’ and ghost beneficiaries scandal

Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson has suspended EPWP funding to eThekwini after an Auditor-General report exposed ghost beneficiaries, irregular payments and allegations of…

  • Lyse Comins
6 min read
Weak oversight and non-compliance are causing fatal accidents at construction sites
BUILDING SITES

South Africa clamps down on ‘construction mafia’

More than 700 cases related to criminal gangs disrupting construction sites have been reported over the past five months

  • Lyse Comins
5 min read
South Africa continues to face an ever-increasing human development crisis, and that is best reflected by the number of 15- to 34-year-olds who are disengaged from both work and education. (David Harrison/M&G)
ECONOMY

A net to catch the NEETs

A decade of reconstruction looms post-Covid. This is our chance to restructure the economy to build a more inclusive one

  • Amuzweni Ngoma
6 min read