Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has reportedly asked Speaker Thandi Modise to postpone next week’s Medium-Term Budget Policy statement. Mboweni was due to deliver the budget speech next Wednesday. He says recent complex decisions, taken by Cabinet, necessitates a proposed re-scheduling of his budget announcement. President Cyril Ramaphosa is due to table the country’s economic recovery plan in Parliament tomorrow.

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The former Bosasa chief operations officer, Angelo Agrizzi, will appear in the Palm Ridge magistrate’s court today. He will appear along-side former ANC-MP, Vincent Smith, on fraud and corruption charges. Agrizzi faces a charge of corruption, and was also responsible for paying bribes of more than R600,000 to Smith in 2015. Smith will face one charge of corruption and one of fraud.
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Cabinet has decided to further extend the National State of Disaster by a month, until 15 November. The Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma says this further period will allow government a “progressive” and “responsible” return to normal. She says it will help government put measures in place to avoid a second wave of infections.

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