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Making headlines: Cosatu says SA needs new growth path, selection panel takes different route to appoint new NPA boss And, DA says Dlamini and Gigaba 'acted dishonestly' and are not 'fit and proper' to hold office

 

Cosatu says SA needs new growth path

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni needs to present a clear plan on how government will "pull the economy from the doldrums" and create a new labour intensive growth path, the Congress of South African Trade Unions said yesterday.

A statement from Cosatu said while Mboweni was only in his second week on the job, "there will be no honeymoon for him" as it expected the former reserve bank governor to table a medium-term budget policy statement tomorrow which would address the unemployment crisis currently facing the country.

The trade union federation said the country didn’t have the luxury of time because workers were tired and battered from a 36 percent unemployment rate and the ongoing retrenchments across most sectors of the economy.

 

Selection panel takes different route to appoint new NPA boss

The power to appoint and remove the head of the National Prosecuting Authority is bestowed on the President, but the advisory panel appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa to identify and conduct interviews with individuals for the position, has decided to take different – and unprecedented – route.

The position will be advertised in the media and the process that will follow will be similar to that of a judicial appointment.

Presidency spokesperson Khusela Diko said the panel agreed on a framework and that it would ensure that worthy persons shortlisted were appropriately vetted before recommendations were sent to the President for consideration.

 

Dlamini and Gigaba 'acted dishonestly' and are not 'fit and proper' to hold office

Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba and Minister in the Presidency Bathabile Dlamini have "acted dishonestly" and are not "fit and proper" to hold positions in Cabinet, the DA has said in court papers.

The DA filed papers in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria yesterday where it is challenging President Cyril Ramaphosa's reappointment of Gigaba and Dlamini.

Gigaba and Dlamini survived Ramaphosa's first Cabinet reshuffle on February 26, 11 days after he had been sworn in as president.

DA’s federal council chairperson James Selfe said by not taking the decision to dismiss Gigaba and Dlamini, the president was "not putting the interest of South Africans before those of the ANC's political figures".

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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