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UIM

UNITED Independent Movement (UIM) leader Neil de Beer launched his party’s poster campaign in Cape Town this week.

De Beer, a former national security adviser to president Nelson Mandela and an Umkhonto we Sizwe agent, was an ANC member for about 30 years before resigning in November last year.

He is standing as a mayoral candidate for the City Of Cape Town. De Beer, who was born in Stellenbosch, has his eyes set on the Cape Town metro as he feels that the hard work begins at home.

The party kicked off its manifesto launch in Mpumalanga two weeks ago.

| Political Bureau

Zuma parole

THE Zondo Commission, chaired by acting chief justice Raymond Zondo who approached the Constitutional Court to jail former president Jacob Zuma for contempt, said it was compiling its final report, and would no longer challenge his medical parole.

The commission has been cited in court papers filed in the North Gauteng High Court by the DA and Afriforum (the Helen Suzman Foundation has also filed papers), challenging the September 5 parole granted by Correctional Services commissioner, Arthur Fraser.

But the Zondo Commission said this week said it was no longer interested in the matter. | Political Bureau

R350 grant

RECIPIENTS of the R350 Social Relief of Distress grant can now collect their monies from Pick n Pay or Boxer stores from this week.

SA Post Office spokesperson Nobuhle Njapha said only grant recipients who have received an SMS from the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) confirming their collection payout point as either Pick n Pay or Boxer can use the new collections points. See https://bit.ly/iolr350grant for more information.