One of South Africa's big four audit firms, PricewaterhouseCoopers is at the centre of damning claims of plagiarism.

The Johannesburg rumour-mill has it that Luthuli House was recently provided with more damning evidence of Mashatile's alleged wrongdoing.

Gauteng health has struggled to pay key suppliers to provincial hospitals in the past financial year, but it dished out millions to a consultancy firm

Gauteng DA leader Jack Bloom has asked the public protector to investigate Mashatile's use of a house on the exclusive Thesen Island, Knysna.

Energetic on the economy but soft on corruption. That's the general assessment of the nine-year premiership of Mbhazima Shilowa.

Saving electricity and promoting energy efficiency must be a top priority in 2008, Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa said in his State of the Province address on Monday. "The future was rosy on December 31 2007, but suddenly everyone is buying candles and researching property in Perth," Shilowa said in Johannesburg. He also discussed transport improvements planned for 2008.

Monday September 24 is Heritage Day, a public holiday in South Africa. But this year it may just become more famous as National Braai Day. The day, supported by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, "will allow us to get together, burn the past and cook up a succulent future", says Jan Scannell, CEO of National Braai Day.