President Ramaphosa will host Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta on a state visit at the Union Buildings from Monday to Wednesday.
The two leaders will discuss wide-ranging issues pertaining to bilateral, multilateral, economic, regional and continental issues.
There are more than 60 SA companies operating in Kenya, with investments in the financial services, real estate, food and beverages, entertainment services and hospitality sectors.
SA exported R7.5bn worth of goods to Kenya in 2020 against imports of R329.5m, according to a statement from the presidency.
The Johannesburg metro will on Monday hold its inaugural sitting of council after the municipal elections on November 1 in which no political party achieved a clear majority to govern SA's richest and biggest city.
Acting city manager Floyd Brink will preside over the swearing-in of the metro’s 270 councillors and the election of the speaker. The elected speaker will thereafter preside over the election of the chief whip and the executive mayor.
DA leader John Steenhuisen said at the weekend the party will field Mpho Phalatse as its mayoral candidate. The Sunday Times reported that the DA’s decision not to back ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba’s bid to once again lead the city as mayor could jeopardise the agreement the opposition parties had reached in Tshwane to support a DA mayoral candidate.
The SA government’s intelligence gathering capabilities are expected to come under scrutiny when MPs pose questions to President Cyril Ramaphosa and his security cluster ministers in the National Assembly this week.
Pointed questions pertaining to the July unrest, the hostage drama involving defence & military veterans minister Thandi Modise and other ministers, and the energy crisis dogging the economy are some of the questions Ramaphosa and the ministers will have to answer.
On Tuesday, the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) will hold a ministerial briefing on the fiscal and economic impact of the July unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, which cost the economy an estimated R50bn.
The peace and security cluster ministers will answer questions in the National Assembly on Wednesday.
Standing committee on public accounts chair and IFP MP Mkhuleko Hlengwa will ask international relations & cooperation minister Naledi Pandor whether she has found that “domestic challenges, including the recent July civil unrest, protests and looting, have been detrimental to the Republic’s stance and ability to commandeer a regional hegemony.”
ACDP leader Kenneth Meshoe will ask police minister Bheki Cele whether all the instigators of the July unrest had been arrested.
ANC MP Thabo Mmutle will ask Modise what steps her department has taken after the “unfortunate incident” when she and her deputy Thabang Makwetla and minister in the presidency Mondli Gungubele were held hostage by disgruntled military veterans at Irene in Pretoria in October. Mmutle wants to know what Modise has done to address challenges faced by military veterans and what her response is to the demands made by the veterans.
On Thursday, it will be Ramaphosa’s turn in the hot seat, with Steenhuisen set to ask the president what the government’s urgent plans are to reform power utility Eskom and the country’s energy market to address the electricity crisis. This follows weeks of intermittent blackouts due to Eskom’s generation capacity challenges
EFF leader Julius Malema is to question Ramaphosa about the terms and conditions of the R130bn proposed loan by several developed nations to assist SA’s transition from coal to clean energy.
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