April, 25 2017.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Thabi Madiba.

Making headlines:
Tsedu says interim SABC board will reverse decisions
ANC to introduce amended land claims bill in May
And, DA wants National Treasury to blacklist companies involved with Nkandla upgrades

There would be no shortcuts in earning back the public's confidence in the South African Broadcasting Corporation, interim board deputy chairperson Mathatha Tsedu said on Monday.

Addressing Parliament’s communications committee, Tsedu outlined the interim board’s priorities in "refloating" the entity.

One of their top priorities was reversing bad decisions, he said, which included the 90% local content rule, which was introduced by Hlaudi Motsoeneng.

 

The ANC will introduce an amended land rights bill in parliament in May after the top court declared invalid a law that re-opened a process for blacks to make claims on land taken from them during white-minority rule.

The Restitution of Land Rights Bill, allowing state expropriations of land to redress racial disparities, was among the first laws passed by the country's first democratic government in November 1994.

But many people failed to lodge claims within a 1995 to 1998 window, and most land remains in white hands more than two decades after the end of apartheid. President Jacob Zuma signed an amended act in June 2014 to allow those who had missed out on making claims to do so.

 

The DA leader Mmusi Maimane on Tuesday said not a single one of the 14 companies involved in the scandalous upgrades at Nkandla has been blacklisted, or “placed on the restricted supplier database”.

Maimane said in a statement that the Minister of Public Works Nathi Nhleko has revealed that 8 of the 14 companies contracted to carry out the infamous upgrades to Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead have since been rehired by the department to perform other work, notwithstanding their involvement in the R250-million scandal”.

The DA leader said Nhleko also confirmed that “not a single one” of these companies has been blacklisted or “placed on the restricted supplier database”.

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