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Making headlines: Mthembu says Mkhwebane's critics must prove 'incompetence', DA wants judicial commission of inquiry into SA's healthcare collapse And, Gauteng prepares to expropriate privately owned land without compensation

Mthembu says Mkhwebane's critics must prove 'incompetence

The ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu says critics of Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane must provide evidence of her supposed "incompetence" if they want her removed from office.

Mthembu held a press briefing in Parliament yesterday to deliver a summary of the party's performance during the first half of 2018.   

During a round of questions, Mthembu was asked what the ANC's stance was in the ongoing process in the justice portfolio committee to review Mkhwebane's fitness to hold office.

Mthembu questioned the onslaught of criticism heaped on Mkhwebane following high-profile court judgments against some of her reports.

DA wants judicial commission of inquiry into SA's healthcare collapse

The Democratic Alliance has written to President Cyril Ramaphosa asking him to establish a judicial commission of inquiry into the collapse of the country's healthcare system.

DA national spokesperson Refiloe Nt'sekhe said that public health facilities are no longer places of healing, and have become death-traps for the poor, who have no options available to them.

The DA has been on a #HospitalHealthCare oversight campaign which revealed shocking horror stories, including rats eating corpses, mothers having to share beds shortly after delivering their babies, and patients forced to eat rotten food.

Gauteng prepares to expropriate privately owned land without compensation

The Gauteng government wants to "immediately" expropriate without   compensation privately owned land lying idle.             

Premier David Makhura said the province was completing an audit of all unused privately owned land to test the Constitution instead of waiting on the parliamentary process currently reviewing the property rights clause of the Constitution.  

Makhura said there are tracts of land that are being used for speculation, while other land parcels have been abandoned by landlords living overseas waiting to one day to sell the land to developers at huge profits.

Makhura told a news agency that the Gauteng Government can expropriate land without compensation with immediate effect to test the Constitution.

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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