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Daily Podcast – March 05, 2020

5th March 2020

By: Sane Dhlamini
Creamer Media Senior Contributing Editor and Researcher

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For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.

Making headlines: City of Tshwane to be placed under administration, IMF says coronavirus outbreak will slow global economic growth this year and, Bheki Cele says South Africa would be better if citizens were not armed

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City of Tshwane to be placed under administration

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Gauteng premier David Makhura has announced that the City of Tshwane will be placed under administration. 

Makhura said the Gauteng executive council met on Wednesday to assess development on the City of Tshwane and decided to invoke Section 139(1)(c) of the Constitution.

By-elections are expected to take place within 90 days of the appointment of administrators. 

Responding to the news, DA interim leader John Steenhuisen said that this was another form of state capture by the ANC-led provincial government into a municipality which they do not control. He said the ANC is attempting a power grab through the back door.

 

IMF says coronavirus outbreak will slow global economic growth this year

The global spread of the novel coronavirus has crushed hopes for stronger growth this year and will hold 2020 global output gains to their slowest pace since the 2008-2009 financial crisis.

The IMF now expects 2020 world growth to be below the 2.9 percent rate for 2019 and revised forecasts will be issued in the coming weeks.

The IMF declined to say whether the escalating health crisis could push the world into a recession.

The virus has spread rapidly outside China to more than 70 countries.

 

Bheki Cele says South Africa would be better if citizens were not armed

Police Minister Bheki Cele has spoken against citizens carrying firearms, saying South Africa would be a "better" place without armed people. 

Cele was responding to a question from Freedom Front Plus leader, Pieter Groenewald, at the National Assembly on Wednesday. 

Groenewald asked the minister’s opinion on the matter in the wake of the Draft Bill on Gun Licences which proposes taking away self-defence as a reason to own a gun.

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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