📰 17/09/2020

1️⃣ Level 1 comes five months late. Ramaphosa to blame for the avoidable socioeconomic devastation.

Although it has come far too late, the DA welcomed the move to level 1, repeating the Party’s call for the State of Disaster to be ended, and calling for government to justify the continued alcohol restrictions and curfew.

Read it here: https://www.da.org.za/2020/09/level-1-comes-five-months-late-ramaphosa-to-blame-for-the-avoidable-socioeconomic-devastation

🔇 DA rejects President Ramaphosa’s attempt to censor SIU Covid corruption report

The DA spoke out against the censoring of the report into Covid corruption, saying that it is a blatant attempt by the President to hide the true extent of how the ANC looted Covid-19 relief funding.

Read it here: https://www.da.org.za/2020/09/da-rejects-president-ramaphosas-attempt-to-censure-siu-covid-corruption-report

💸 R2.5 billion irregular expenditure on Gauteng Health security contracts

A DA question in the Gauteng Legislature revealed that the Gauteng Health Dept. had spent billions on irregular hospital security contracts, extended month-to-month for four years!

Read it here: https://www.da.org.za/2020/09/r2-5-billion-irregular-expenditure-on-gauteng-health-security-contracts

📰 DA-run Western Cape – a world apart