EFF Efforts to Unseal CR17 Documents Doomed to Fail; Unions to Join Student Protests

LOCAL NEWS

• Financial Intelligence Centre says EFF's appeal to unseal documents relating the Ramaphosa's CR17 campaign will fail as the documents are also protected under the FIC act.
  • CR17 documents formed part of a case brought by the Public Protector to undermine Ramaphosa on supposed state capture allegations to do with receiving campaign funding
• China's Sinovac Biotech says is can provide SA with 5m vaccine doses within weeks, however, local regulators have yet to authorise its emergency use. Authorities are still assessing feasibility
• SA Federation of Trade Unions SATFU says labour must prepare to join students to protest for free education – amplifying fiscal concerns about unaffordable debt forgiveness and tuition fees
• New research shows Eskom produced less electricity in 2020 than in 2010, meanwhile costs have tripled. Primary energy costs are now R112bn which Eskom has blamed on unsustainable increases in the average purchase cost per ton of coal