Sunday Independent Sunday, November 8, 2020

NATION ‘Business must employ locals’ Cadres table document to deal with foreigners PIET MAHASHA RAMPEDI RETIRED SANDF General Maomane “Mojo” Motau’s ANC cadres group has implored business and institutions to employ locals as a “national duty”. It also wants foreigners to close their businesses and leave South Africa within 90 days to give the country a chance to solve its internal problems. In a document tabled before the ANC national working committee (NWC), the party’s operational arm, the group said the governing party’s leadership under President Cyril Ramaphosa must make way for a national task team (NTT) because it suffered from a legitimacy crisis and was controlled by “their invisible masters”. The document, titled “ANC TURNAROUND STRATEGY 2025: CHANGING THE COURSE OF HISTORY”, was discussed at several meetings between the…

SARS SARS threat stuns granny ROLAND MPOFU roland.mpofu@inl.co.za Supplied AN 80-YEAR-OLD Ekurhuleni grandmother is now lives in fear of losing her home because she allegedly owes the South African Revenue Service (Sars) money that she suspects stems from more than two decades ago when she was still employed. Jabulile Ngcobo said her nightmare started in September when she received a letter of demand from Sars stating that her account was in arrears with an amount of R11222.01. Ngcobo said while she still wonders what could have happened or hoping that perhaps it was just an error, another letter arrived later in the month threatening her with a warrant of execution. “I don’t know where SARS expects me to get this money from as I am surviving on a government pension.…

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UNPRECEDENTED Wishing the class of 2020 all the best EDWIN NAIDU AS SOUTH Africa’s Class of 2020 entered the third day of the final National School Certificate (NSC) exams on Friday, Universities South Africa (USAf) head Professor Ahmed Bawa expressed well-wishes to more than 1 million learners who were writing. “Many of you young people will remember that many teachers contracted the virus and were forced to go into self-quarantine. “Some were hospitalised and we also sadly lost others along the way. “We are confident of the commitment and innovation of our teachers and schools and of the resilience and genius of the Class of 2020,” Bawa said. He said despite the difficulties brought on by the Covid-19, USAf had faith in the measures put in place by the Department…

HOUSING ‘This is not land invasion’ Number of informal settlement structures at Nana’s Farm mushroomed during Covid-19 lockdown LESEGO MAKGATHO lesego.makgatho@inl.co.za BHEKIKHAYA MABASO African News Agency (ANA) THERE are now about 4000 land invaders who have perched themselves in zinc structures on what used to be known as Nana’s Farm – a land bordering Eldorado Park and Lenasia in the south of Joburg. The tin structures are clearly visible from the N12. The number of shacks in this area kept sprouting daily, especially during the last few months of the Covid-19-induced lockdown. When we went out to find out who is living there, we met with mainly former farm workers who said they had been on the land for more than 40 years. Communities of Eldorado Park, Klipspruit and Lenasia…

ZONDO Judge me as a person, not accountant – witness LOYISO SIDIMBA loyiso.sidimba@inl.co.za FORMER SA Airways board member Yakhe Kwinana yesterday pleaded with Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo not to judge the chartered accountancy profession on the basis of her evidence. Kwinana, a chartered accountant who previously served as SAA Technical (SAAT) chairperson, told Justice Zondo that he should not allow the commission of inquiry into state capture to be a graveyard for the whole profession. ”The effect it has out there, you may not know the influence out there. If you want to say Yakhe Kwinana is incompetent, then say it but please don’t include the profession,” she said. Kwinana said that adopting such an attitude would amount to killing the profession of chartered accountancy and asked for the…