What’s in City Press: Unisa VC’s ugly spat with ex affecting the university | SANDF blows R5m on top general’s funeral | ANC is facing a massive cash crunch | City Press

What’s in City Press: Unisa VC’s ugly spat with ex affecting the university | SANDF blows R5m on top general’s funeral | ANC is facing a massive cash crunch | City Press

What's in City Press 3 December 2023

What’s in City Press 3 December 2023

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The governing party is facing a massive cash crunch, dealing with mounting debt and drying coffers ahead of decisive elections in less than six months.

The SA National Defence Force (SANDF) spent about R5 million on the funeral of its logistics chief, Lieutenant-General Xolani Ndlovu, who passed away last month.

The heated WhatsApp exchange between Unisa’s Vice-Chancellor Puleng LenkaBula and her ex-lover, Mpho Morolane, indicate their previous relationship may be affecting the affairs of the university.

The man believed to have been hired to assassinate a former Eskom forensic investigator was arrested just over a week ago, following a dramatic car chase with a police tracking team from Limpopo, City Press has learnt.

Gauteng Health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko and Finance MEC Jacob Mamabolo are accused of failing to intervene when the department of health irregularly awarded a R526 million waste management tender.

In their submission to the National Council of Provinces’ select committee dealing with the National Health Insurance Bill, South Africa’s two major business bodies emphasised “the importance of universal health coverage or the future success of our country and our economy”.

South Africans, including politicians, the elite, the public and the regulators, must calm down a little on the issue of commercial banks and the rate at which the country’s currency trades against majors such as the US dollar or the euro.

Kagiso Setsetse, the business partner of slain house hitmaker Oupa Sefoka – who was popularly known as DJ Sumbody – has gone to court to recover a luxurious Porsche Carrera from his mother.

Despite the sweltering heat of Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, thousands of ActionSA supporters came out to support one of their own as Herman Mashaba returned to his hometown to ask for their votes.

A war of words between flamboyant self-ordained “prophets” Paseka Motsoeneng, known to his followers as prophet Mboro, and Samuel Mbiza, famously known as prophet Radebe, has turned into a bitter court battle, with the former accusing Mbiza of orchestrating a plot to kill him.


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