‘At Ermelo, we caught two of our officials trying to smuggle dagga and a mobile phone, we called the police, they effected an arrest. They're in the police cells as I'm talking to you,’ says Singabakho Nxumalo, spokesperson for the Department of Correctional Services.
Here's a round-up of the day's news including the appointment of a new chief justice, the soaring price of orange juice and a look ahead to the Paris Olympics.
‘I was just looking through the data over the last five editions, and number one, again, is engineering, 23% of respondents say that they find it most difficult to find engineering skills,’ says Marisa Jacobs, managing director of Xpatweb.
‘Our lack of stormwater drainage for low-income areas, the lack of decent housing, the bridges and roads that collapse, these reflect a failure to make our cities resilient,’ says Patrick Bond, distinguished professor at the University of Johannesburg's Department of Sociology.
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