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Making headlines: Tourism Committee advises SA Tourism to ditch Tottenham deal, KwaZulu-Natal gets two new MECs and, Uganda says it will not renew term of UN human rights office

Tourism Committee advises SA Tourism to ditch Tottenham deal

The Portfolio Committee on Tourism has told SA Tourism to scrap the controversial R1-billion Tottenham Hotspur deal.

SA Tourism and Tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu appeared before the committee to give more details about the deal and to explain why it is going to benefit the country.

Committee chairperson Tandi Mahambehlala said they will investigate the deal and also shared that they will recommend that the R1-billion be reprioritised.

She said the presentation was underwhelming, full of contradictions and created more questions than answers as the South African Football Association was not listed among the stakeholders consulted on the deal.

The Democratic Alliance has already recommended that the R1-billion be allocated to fix the energy crisis.

KwaZulu-Natal gets two new MECs

Premier Nomusa Dube-Ncube appointed Bongiwe Sithole-Moloi to succeed Sihle Zikalala as Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC, after Zikalala was sworn in as a member of Parliament on Monday. 

Super Zuma, on the other hand, was appointed to take over as Agriculture and Rural Development MEC.

Dube-Ncube said the new MECs had extensive experience in service delivery and leadership in the province and also expressed faith in Sithole-Moloi's leadership.

Uganda says it will not renew term of UN human rights office

Uganda will not renew the mandate of the United Nations' rights office in the East African country and will rely on domestic institutions to safeguard rights, the government said, after the body flagged torture and unlawful detention sites.

In a letter by Uganda's Foreign Affairs Ministry sent to Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on February 3, the ministry noted progress Uganda had made in developing a domestic capacity to monitor rights as the main reason for its decision.

Tensions were evident, however, when the body raised allegations of arbitrary detention of hundreds of people including critics of President Yoweri Museveni, and a lack of action to prosecute case of torture.

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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