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Suspended KZN regional court president in dock for allegedly selling acting magistrate posts
23rd November 2023 Suspended KwaZulu-Natal regional court president Eric Nzimande made his first appearance in the Durban Magistrate's Court on Thursday on corruption... →
How Koko's case crumbled: Cop details lack of resources while VIP protection budget balloons
23rd November 2023 As taxpayers fork out R2-billion a year for VIP protection for the president and his cohorts, the investigator in the state's defunct R2.2-billion... →
Treasury puts dramatic plan for preferential procurement on the table
23rd November 2023 The Treasury has drawn up far-reaching and extensive requirements to set the framework for how preferential procurement will be done by state... →
Hlophe, Motata's last-ditch efforts to scupper removal fall flat
23rd November 2023 Despite last-ditch attempts to scupper their removals, both suspended Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe and retired Judge Nkola Motata are... →
R300m Durban Solid Waste tender chaos: Gumede's lawyer seeks to pin some blame on witness
23rd November 2023 Fraud-accused Zandile Gumede's lawyer continued grilling a senior Durban Solid Waste (DSW) official in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban on... →
SoNA disruption: Malema, EFF top brass must apologise to Ramaphosa, have one-month salary docked
22nd November 2023 Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema and the party’s top brass will have to apologise to President Cyril Ramaphosa, give up a month’s... →
Parliamentary justice committee recommends that Hlophe and Motata be removed
22nd November 2023 The Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services will recommend to the National Assembly that retired Judge Nkola Motata and suspended... →
Shock inflation increase makes for a tough interest rate decision this week
22nd November 2023 Annual consumer price inflation climbed to 5.9% in October from 5.4% in September, edging closer to the outside of the SA Reserve Bank’s targeted... →
Koko's Kusile case: State's corruption buster vows to keep punching despite court blow
22nd November 2023 The National Prosecuting Authority's Investigating Directorate has suffered a blow in its fight against state capture, but it has vowed to keep... →
Malema and top EFF MPs could miss SoNA 2024 after storming stage at this year’s address
22nd November 2023 President Cyril Ramaphosa's last State of the Nation Address (SoNA), before next year's general election, could be free from the Economic Freedom... →
Hurdles cleared for sale of SAA - now for Takatso to show the money
22nd November 2023 The last hurdles are being cleared for the sale of 51% of South African Airways to Takatso - if it can come up with the money. A major blockage to... →
R300m Durban Solid Waste tender: You facilitated 'racketeering', Gumede's lawyer tells witness
22nd November 2023 Zandile Gumede's lawyer has told a senior eThekwini Durban Solid Waste official he perpetuated racketeering contracts allegedly initiated by some... →
Mbalula calls to suspend Free State mayor who violently confronted resident in front of children
22nd November 2023 African National Congress secretary-general Fikile Mbalula expressed the ANC's "sincere disgust" at the "unprecedented conduct" of the party's... →
Court strikes Koko Eskom graft case off the roll, finds there were unreasonable delays
21st November 2023 The Middelburg Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on Tuesday struck the case against former Eskom boss Matshela Koko and others from the roll. The... →
Ex-Joburg mayor comes out guns blazing to defend Hamas support post while wielding a rifle
21st November 2023 Former Johannesburg mayor Thapelo Amad says his online post containing images of himself with a rifle and expressing his support for Hamas was "to... →
SA Jewish Board of Deputies labels ANC and SA govt 'bullies' following Israeli ambassador recall
21st November 2023 "Bullying and demonisation" is how the South African Jewish Board of Deputies described Israeli ambassador Eli Belotserkovsky's recall by his... →
Ramaphosa's man had 'secret' meeting with Geingob days after Phala Phala suspect's arrest in Namibia
21st November 2023 Ten days after South African crime intelligence authorities were told that the alleged Phala Phala mastermind had been arrested by Namibian police,... →
Parliament's lawyer says EFF is eager to stop probe into SoNA stage storming
21st November 2023 Stalingrad on steroids. This is how lawyers for Parliament responded to an Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) application to halt the hearing into six... →
Zandile Gumede swings donation bowl to help foot bill for corruption case
21st November 2023 Former eThekwini mayor and corruption accused Zandile Gumede is open to taking donations for her criminal trial fees. This was according to her... →
'Challenging three months': Western Cape murder rate climbs by 10% between July and September
20th November 2023 After six months in which police seemingly got a grip on murders in the Western Cape, the latest quarterly crime statistics have shown an increase... →
Malema lashes out at hearing into EFF stage storming
20th November 2023 At a parliamentary committee hearing on Monday into the Economic Freedom Fighters's conduct during President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation... →
Minister Ntshavheni says rand manipulation part of private sector's efforts to 'collapse' SA govt
20th November 2023 South Africa's private sector has no interest in developing the country and wants "to ensure that the government collapses", Minister in the... →
AG Tsakani Maluleke appointed as external auditor for Unesco
20th November 2023 South Africa’s renowned Auditor-General (AG) Tsakani Maluleke has been appointed as external auditor for the United Nations Educational, Scientific... →
City of Cape Town halts auction of municipal homes in CBD after public outcry
20th November 2023 The City of Cape Town halted the auction of city-owned rental housing in Maynard Street, Gardens, at the eleventh hour on Friday. The City... →
African Independent Congress councillor Margaret Arnolds is the new Johannesburg council speaker
20th November 2023 African Independent Congress councillor Margaret Arnolds was elected the new speaker of the Johannesburg council at a special council meeting on... →
'If the ANC lose at the polls, they will go,' says former IEC chair Johann Kriegler
17th November 2023 Former justice of the Constitutional Court and the chairperson of the electoral commission who delivered the 1994 election, Justice Johann... →
eThekwini officials jet off to US to 'boost' city's image, leaving behind service delivery woes
17th November 2023 Questions remain over the cost of a trip eThekwini metro councillors and officials took to the United States – and the City's limited responses so... →
Mkhwebane says EFF plans to ensure ministers don't take Public Protector to court
17th November 2023 After the elections next year, the Economic Freedom Fighters will ensure that ministers don't take steps to have the remedial actions of Chapter 9... →
Nelson Mandela Bay mayor again under fire - this time over municipality's panel of attorneys
17th November 2023 The mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay, Gary van Niekerk, is in hot water for allegedly illegally interfering with administrative processes in the legal... →
Ramaphosa and Zelensky hammered out first peace topics to take to Moscow over 'lengthy dinner'
16th November 2023 After official meetings in Kyiv this June, President Cyril Ramaphosa and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke informally over a lengthy... →
SA's murder rate rises to two-decade high – and cops are powerless
16th November 2023 The murder rate in South Africa has reached its highest mark in 20 years, with police powerless to arrest the rising tide of death. A report... →
ANC, EFF shoot down DA's proposal to curtail police minister's power over IPID
16th November 2023 The African National Congress and Economic Freedom Fighters have rammed through a provision in the Independent Police Investigative Directorate... →
EFF withdraws 'premature' statement calling for resignation of fraud-accused acting City manager
16th November 2023 The national structure of the Economic Freedom Fighters has retracted a statement calling for the resignation of the fraud-accused acting City... →
Charges rain down on two senior managers in crisis-marred National Skills Fund over R5bn scandal
16th November 2023 At least two high-ranking officials have been charged by the Department of Higher Education, Science and Innovation in relation to the National... →
Economic pain at its harshest with more of the same likely for 3 to 6 months
15th November 2023 South Africans have been spending and transacting less and less as high interest rates, food inflation, load shedding and elevated fuel prices eat... →
Petrol, diesel prices on track for cuts in December
15th November 2023 Based on the current oil, international fuel and rand prices, the latest data from the Central Energy Fund shows that petrol prices could be cut by... →
State Security Agency head Thembisile Majola resigns
15th November 2023 Thembisile Majola served just 20 months of her three-year contract as the director-general of the State Security Agency. Before taking over in... →
BEE-focused tenders and cadre deployment causing State collapse - Harvard economists
15th November 2023 A two-year research project by Harvard professor Ricardo Hausmann's Growth Lab says that the government's proposed economic reforms are unlikely to... →
90% drop in police reservists 'devastating' to high crime levels
15th November 2023 Despite budgeting R5.7-billion annually to recruit an additional 30 000 officers by 2026, the SA Police Service (SAPS) has cut 90% of its police... →
From R90m to R4.1bn: How costs ballooned for a water project tender in Giyani
15th November 2023 Water infrastructure upgrades in rural Limpopo villages are caught up in a sea of irregularities with costs soaring from R90-million to... →
SA sees job growth, but it's cold comfort for millions of unemployed youth left behind
15th November 2023 Young people aged 15 to 34 years had an unemployment rate of 43.4% in the third quarter, compared with 45.3% in the second, according to Statistics... →
