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Flash Briefing: PRASA CEO axed; Western Cape enters Covid-19 resurgence, Plett Rage to head forward; e-tolls

  • The day prior to this, BizNews reported the Ballito Rage festival had been cancelled owing to a total of 36 sure Covid-19 conditions. Organisers of the Plett Rage non-public acknowledged the festival will proceed, despite the menace related with this possibility. In accordance to officials for the match, the festival has handed the level of no return, with 900 other folks expected to abet. Organisers non-public acknowledged easiest vaccinated social gathering-goers shall be popular to enter.
  • The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) has terminated the employment of neighborhood CEO Zolani Matthews. The passe chief govt modified into positioned on suspension in November, with an investigation utilized with regards to his employment contract. Phase of this modified into to distinguish whether or no longer Matthews had intentionally failed to explain recordsdata of his twin citizenship. PRASA learnt of his UK citizenship after the Bid Security Division rejected Matthews high secret security clearance. The notify-owned entity will birth with a recruitment job for a substitute CEO.
  • Head of the Western Cape Health Division, Dr Keith Cloete, has acknowledged the province has officially entered a Covid-19 resurgence, following increased infections. Cloete remarked that the week-on-week proportion commerce within the seven-day transferring moderate of contemporary conditions has been extra than 20% for extra than per week.
  • Petrol prices reached a memoir excessive this week, with some South Africans paying R20 a litre to gas their vehicles. Whatever the continuing financial challenges facing typical voters, Minister Gwede Mantashe has acknowledged that if e-tolls are abandoned, gas prices will, most likely, lengthen even extra to duvet the prices. 

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