AGP Executive Report
Last update: 6 hours agoProteas–Australia: South Africa opens a three-Test series against Australia in Durban on Friday, with Kingsmead’s turning pitch putting spinners Simon Harmer and Keshav Maharaj in the spotlight. It is the teams’ first Test on South African soil since the 2018 ball-tampering scandal. Olympic Bid: South Africa is among seven countries in talks with the IOC over hosting the 2036 Games; new rules set an October 31 deadline for other interested nations to come forward. Local Manufacturing: President Cyril Ramaphosa launched FuturePHARMA in Pretoria, a CSIR platform designed to help researchers and companies scale medicine production and reduce reliance on imports. Schools and Transport: More than 21,000 Western Cape learners were left without transport during a bus operators’ dispute over diesel costs. SADTU warned lost classroom time cannot be recovered. Election Misinformation: The IEC says only adult South African citizens on the voters’ roll can vote, rejecting online claims that asylum seekers are being registered. Home Affairs has also warned that false claims are fuelling confusion outside refugee offices. Public Accountability: The Auditor-General flagged unresolved irregular spending and weak IT controls in the human settlements portfolio, despite a decline in its reported irregular-expenditure balance.
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