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Masuku fails in bid to challenge SIU report that to led to his axing as MEC - Eyewitness News

Bandile Masuku had rejected the preliminary report, which found that he had failed to provide oversight and to uphold the Constitution and regulations in the Public Finance Management Act.

Bandile Masuku had rejected the preliminary report, which found that he had failed to provide oversight and to uphold the Constitution and regulations in the Public Finance Management Act. JOHANNESBURG - The Gauteng High Court has dismissed an application by former Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku challenging a report by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU). Masuku approached the court on an urgent basis wanting preliminary findings by the SIU against him set aside. Those findings were used as a basis for his axing by Premier David Makhura in October. The SIU found that he had failed to provide oversight and uphold the Constitution of the country along with the regulations in the Public Finance Management Act. It was investigating irregular tender processes of COVID-19 resources. Masukus then department had granted the late Chief Madzikane Diko a multi-million rand tender to procure personal protective equipment. The SIUs Kaizer Kganyago: "We are really excited that the full bench of the High Court has dismissed Dr Bandile Masuku's application. This is an affirmation that we are doing things in a fair manner. We are making sure that we have the evidence we need." #KnowYourSIU| The High Court of South Africa: Gauteng Division, Pretoria has dismissed an application by former @GautengHealth MEC Dr Bandile Masuku challenging #SIUReport on PPE investigations outcome with costs, including the costs of two counsels. Details to follow. Special Investigating Unit (SIU) (@RSASIU) April 12, 2021 Download the Eyewitness News app to your iOS or Android device.

‘Genesis Noir’: A stunning game about love, murder, joy and the Big Bang - The Washington Post

If a crime writer, a cosmologist and a mythologist collaborated on a video game, the result might be “Genesis Noir,” the most conceptually audacious game to hit digital storefronts in many moons.

Genesis Noir unfolds through a series of title cards interspersed between playable sections. The cards set out the principles of the Big Bang Theory an explosion of energy gave birth to our universe. Like a refrain, they also circle back to the subject of myth as it relates to the human propensity to come to terms with the mysteries and verities that underwrite existence through archetypal stories. Here, these stories take the form of events that span the range of creation from the flowering of life in a bed of water to the world-devouring darkness precipitated by a black hole. Story continues below advertisement Players assume the role of No Man, a tall thin man who sports the standard garb of a noir hero: a trench coat and a hat. Late in the game he is referred to by different names: the Eternal Demon, Beat Brother, Ancestral Spirit, and Time Traveler, which reinforce the notion that he is more of a symbol than a conventional character; thus, his actions should be read metaphorically. At the start of the game, we find him selling watches out of his coat pockets to various pedestrians on the street like a peddler of illicit goods. Returning to his home in a clock tower he finds a number written on a napkin belonging to a love interest. After dialing the number on a rotary phone he hears distressed sounds coming from the other end before the line abruptly clicks off. Racing, falling and crawling on stairs and streets that take on impossible angles he arrives at a building where he wrenches on the door handle until the door shatters like a pane of glass. Bursting into a room, he sees another man point a gun at a woman and pull the trigger. In Genesis Noirs cosmology, this event is the cause of the Big Bang. The would-be victim is Miss Mass, a singer who leads a band called the Divine Jazz Section. Her assailant is her bandmate and erstwhile lover Golden Boy, a saxophone player who is made jealous by her dalliance with No Man. Viewed through the lens of the Big Bang, the symbolic relationship of these three is clear. Miss Mass held the universe of the band together until her head was turned by No Man. In a fit of jealousy, Golden Boy shoots Miss Mass and triggers an explosion of energy that echoes throughout time and space elements that are associated with No Man, who takes it upon himself to literally peer into the explosion to see if there is a way that he might be able to reverse it. For the first two-thirds of the game, players return repeatedly to the crime scene where the propulsive force of the gunshot from Golden Boys handgun hangs in the air like a frozen, elongated balloon. Moving a cursor inside the narrowly demarcated blast radius one comes across dots or particles that can be clicked on. Some of these yield dead ends while others lead to stages that take No Man to different points in the evolution of Earth from an ancient Greek amphitheater to a feudal Japanese countryside to jazz-age Harlem to the laboratory of a supercollider and finally to a place of shape-shifting spirits. These places are punctuated with puzzles that see No Man doing such things as trading riffs with a musician, planting seeds in a garden and bearing witness to the killing of a mythological animal whose face becomes that of a constellation. Genesis Noirs hopscotch approach to gameplay keeps things fresh and unexpected. On an audiovisual level its beautiful jazz score and ultrarefined minimalist line art are entrancing. Alas, I did come across a few bugs on the Xbox version that required a couple of restarts when a puzzle broke and the screen froze. I also had to duck out to the pause menu a few times to make the on-screen cursor work. Regardless, I hope a few glitches, which will likely be resolved in an update, dont dampen anyones curiosity. As someone who plays too many conventional games I relished spending time with something so unusual. Overall, there is a richness to the games aesthetic form which unfortunately leaves me with the unsettling feeling that I havent done it proper justice. Story continues below advertisement Christopher Byrd is a Brooklyn-based writer. His work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter @Chris_Byrd. Recent game reviews: It Takes Two tests your ability to save a marriage and fly a fidget spinner Mundaun offers the rare chance to smoke a pipe while talking to the severed head of a goat Mutropolis: A game definitely worth watching on YouTube Persona 5 Strikers: A great sequel if youve already studied up

WATCH LIVE | Malema asks ConCourt candidate: 'What makes you so special?' - News24

Candidates will be interviewed for two vacancies at the Constitutional Court.

Julius Malema asks Dodson about Section 25, regarding whether Dodson believes it allows for land expropriation without compensation.Dodson says, in his view, yes.  Malema asks why commissars should consider Dodson, a white male, over previously disadvantaged groups. "What is so unique about you," he asks after pointing out that Dodson did not have a huge amount of judicial services. Dodson responds that he does not believe that he is unique or special - but he does believe "I have a different path through adjudication". My application is humbly bought, he says, later adding that transformation is not solely about demographics - but also about bringing a different style of adjudication. Dodson says "transformation is not an issue that relates solely to the demographic representation on the bench. Transformation of the judiciary is also the style of adjudication and what is taken into account by judges when they decide cases...transformation goes much wider and the style of adjudication is also part of it and I believe that my experience can bring with it a style of adjudication that can be of assistance to the court."