Municipalities meet Eskom deadline
The local municipalities of Ngwathe and Phumelela have met a February 15 deadline to make submit acceptable plans to clear outstanding arrears with Eskom, the state-owned electricity generator said yesterday. The two municipalities with a combined population of more than 170 000 people were among seven Free State local authorities that Eskom had last month threatened to switch off over a combined outstanding debt of more than R800 million. Eskom only relented on the drastic measure following intervention by the provincial government. Under a deal negotiated by provincial director general Kopung Ralikontsane and Eskom Interim Group Chief Executive Matshela Koko, the…
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Contractors to dispense medicines
Only patients with acute illnesses will need to be seen by nurses or doctors The Free State department of health will next month officially launch a special programme to ease congestion at health centres in three districts by subcontracting the dispensing of chronic medications to a chain of service providers, a senior official said. Provincial Pharmaceutical Services chief executive officer Tumi Molongoana said the Central Chronic Medicine Dispensing and Distribution (CCMDD) programme which was launched in Thabo Mofutsanyana District in 2014 as a pilot project under the National Health Insurance plan, will be officially rolled out to the rest of…
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No to US chicken – Cosatu
Labour federation Cosatu in the Free State will be marching in Bloemfontein today to appeal to the provincial government to help stop the proliferation of US and EU unmarked chicken products being sold by local retailers and supermarkets. Cosatu provincial secretary, Monyatso oa Mahlatsi, said the union will march to the provincial offices of the department of small business, economic development, tourism and environmental affairs to deliver a memorandum asking of the department to intervene in halting this trend. “We are troubled to discover that this chicken is not labelled by our retail outlets so as to avoid exposing its…
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