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Culture Spears favourites at EFF 10th anniversary

Culture Spears have revealed that a new album is on the way PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Culture Spears have revealed that a new album is on the way PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Since 2005 Culture Spears has been flying the blue, black and white flag high across the borders.

This week it continued making Batswana proud after stunning thousands that thronged the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) 10th year anniversary. The event was hosted in Marikana, Rustenburg, last Wednesday, before the main one at the FNB stadium on Saturday.

EFF president, Julius Malema said when he, EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu and the late Sindiso Magaqa visited Marikana 11 years ago, where then 34 striking miners were killed in 2012, some of the miners who survived the shooting asked them to form an alternative political party to the ruling African National Congress (ANC), and they heeded the call.

Editor's Comment
Micro-procurement maze demands urgent reform

Whilst celebrating milestones in inclusivity, with notably P5 billion awarded to vulnerable groups, the report sounds a 'siren' on a dangerous and growing trend: the ballooning use of micro-procurement. That this method, designed for small-scale, efficient purchases, now accounts for a staggering 25% (P8 billion) of total procurement value is not a sign of agility, but a 'red flag'. The PPRA’s warning is unequivocal and must be...

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