This week’s Friday Focus in brief with Penny Fourie

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KwaDukuza’s suspended municipal manager and two executive directors have lost their urgent Labour Court bid to challenge their suspensions. The Section 106 report at the centre of the fallout still has not been released publicly.

The municipality is also losing about R1.3 million a day on electricity bought from Eskom but never billed to consumers, deepening pressure on an already strained budget.

Tongaat Hulett’s future remains before the courts as the battle over possible liquidation continues.

And at Tinley Manor, proposed shark nets and drum lines have opened a wider legal and environmental dispute that could have implications beyond one beach
13 Mar English South Africa Leisure · Business

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