What You Missed Yesterday: Magashule ‘Use Zuma’s Playbook’, Ramaphosa’s Recovery Plan



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ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule.

Ace Magashule, Secretary General of the ANC.

Ace Magashule using Jacob Zuma’s playbook, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s economic recovery plan, and a second ‘less severe’ wave of Covid-19 – these were the most read stories on News24 on Monday, October 12.


Ace Magashule is not Jacob Zuma and we are not stupid

Ace Magashule is using the same playbook Zuma made to avoid his corruption trial for more than a decade. He will not evade justice, he writes Adriaan Basson.

Here is the Ramaphosa economic recovery plan for South Africa

News24 has seen a 48-page draft document, titled South Africa’s Economic Recovery and Reconstruction Plan, outlining eight priority areas to “rebuild and grow the economy” after the economic impact of the shutdown and Covid-19.

Covid-19: SA to experience ‘less severe’ second wave of pandemic, says leading scientist

South Africa can expect a less severe second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to prominent scientist Professor Shabir Madhi. “We are very much on the downward trajectory of the first wave of the pandemic.”[The] the second wave would be less severe than the first because a large percentage of people have developed some level of immunity, “he said Friday.

‘Torture’ cops: NPA stonewall court action, 14 years later

Solomon Nengwane was a police informant who died in custody in 2006. The prosecution of the officers accused of his torture and murder, led by former Hawks general Jan Mabula, has not been a start. His girlfriend is haunted by the night she lost the love of her life.

Senior police arrested in pre-dawn raid for alleged corruption

A high-ranking police officer was arrested during a pre-dawn raid on his home in Johannesburg on Monday morning.

According to the spokesperson for the Directorate of Investigations (ID), Sindisiwe Twala, she is the thirteenth defendant expected to appear in Palm Ridge Magistrates Court on charges of corruption, fraud, theft and money laundering.

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