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Bhisho news: EC Departments of Health and Education get lion’s share of budget

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EC Departments of Health and Education get lion’s share of budget: Tabling his total budget of R78.4bn in the Bhisho Legislature on Wednesday, Somyo allocated R34.7bn or 44.3% of the total budget to the Department of Education. He also allocated R23.6bn to the Department of Health, accounting for 30.2% of the 2018/2019 …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

All eyes on Bhisho budget allocations: Finance MEC Sakhumzi Somyo will reveal today how the Eastern Cape government plans to spend its money this year. Political parties said they expected more money to be pushed toward the health and education departments. DA MPL Jane Cowley said Somyo would …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

Suspended Bhisho officials paid R1m to sit at home: Taxpayers have forked out more than R1-million in eighteen months paying the salaries of 10 Eastern Cape social development officials who are sitting at home on precautionary suspension. This department has 32 pending disciplinary cases against staff members.
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

EC cabinet reshuffle in NEC’s hands: The ANC changed its list in the Bhisho legislature, a move which saw the swearing in of ANC provincial chairman Oscar Mabuyane and his deputy, Mlungisi Mvoko, as MPLs. Ngcukayitobi yesterday said the province’s top officials had already submitted the …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

ANC makes several changes to its Bhisho representation: The African National Congress (ANC) Caucus in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature at Bhisho on Tuesday welcomed the election of its new Chief Whip, Honourable Fundile Gade. “Honourable Gade joined the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature in 2014, and …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

GroundUp: Eastern Cape students challenge Motshekga in court: Equal Education chose Qonce High School to hold a press briefing after filing papers in the Bhisho High Court to force Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga to act on the regulations for infrastructure in schools. By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik for GROUNDUP.
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

“Glitch” with invoice delays R34 million Bhisho memorial centre: More than three years after construction started, the R34 million memorial to the 29 people who were shot dead in Bhisho in 1992 is still not complete. One reason for the delay is the failure by the Eastern Cape Department of Public Works to pay the site …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

GroundUp: A South African shame – children held in adult prison for 200 days without access to visitors: All the applicants had originally been sentenced to a period of compulsory residence at the Bhisho Child and Youth Care Centre. However, what the Centre for Child Law found was that the youths had been detained in Mdantsane Correctional Centre …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

Eastern Cape ANC leader Mabuyane sworn in to provincial legislature: ANC Eastern Cape provincial chairman Oscar Mabuyane and his deputy Mlungisi Mvoko are the newest members of the provincial legislature in Bhisho following their swearing-in on Monday morning. Mabuyane said they were ready to bring energy to the ANC caucus …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

Bhisho, ANC fight Matatiele’s move to KZN: government and ANC agreed that the political bargaining between African Independent Congress (AIC) and Ekurhuleni Metro ANC for the latter to hold on to its coalition rule of that metro in exchange for a deal to move Matatiele out of the province was not …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

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