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Flash Briefing: Shell seismic stare fears disregarded as ‘poppycock’; SIU file into PPE corruption released; Calls to total lockdown develop louder

  • Shell’s South African partner disregarded fears that a seismic stare for offshore oil and gasoline can also endanger marine existence, calling it “poppycock”, whereas warning that halting the system can also leave the country entirely dependent on crude imports. There may be no evidence that seismic testing has “had any biologically vital affect on any marine populations in areas through which surveys have been performed anyplace on the earth,” Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI) acknowledged in an launch letter printed on its internet arena. “Some folks can also deem the largest social contribution they may be able to develop is to inhibit oil exploration in South Africa, however their success is no longer going to cessation our question for oil,” HCI acknowledged. “This may well perhaps well merely leave us fully dependent on importing it at big charge to our foreign reserves.”
  • A Particular Investigating Unit (SIU) file into the train’s spending on its response to the Covid-19 pandemic modified into as soon as made public on Tuesday. President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office launched he had current that the splendid file on the SIU’s probe into more than 5,400 authorities contracts be made readily available to the final public. The unit investigated 5,467 contracts, valued at R14.3bn, awarded to some,066 service suppliers. Investigations linked to 4,549 contracts have been finalised, with 2,803 of those agreements stumbled on to have been irregular. This amounted to 62% of the finalised investigations being deemed irregular. The SIU known sources and cash totalling R551.5m that wished to be recovered on the premise of its probes. Thus far, sources and cash totalling correct over R34m has been recovered. 
  • South African scientists and scientific examiners are alongside with their voices to the demand the authorities to total the country’s national train of catastrophe and lockdown regulations, announcing that the world is coming into a brand novel section of going throughout the Covid-19 virus and that being on a permanent ‘code purple’ is just not any longer effective. In an op-ed addressing the subject, the scientists acknowledged that the train of catastrophe has allowed politicians to behave in irrational and unscientific ways, without any accountability or transparency, and it modified into as soon as time this came to an cessation.

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