Political heavyweights Kgalema Motlanthe and Tokyo Sexwale may be in the clear -- but that doesn't mean no one did anything wrong in the Oilgate saga.

The Donen report on allegations of illicit activities in the UN's Iraq oil for food programme has found that no South African law was broken.

The release of the Donen report into the Oil for Food scandal may well reopen a Pandora's box of allegations about kickbacks and diplomatic favours traded for oil from Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Is it an ambush by scandal on the road to Mangaung or a wise capitulation in the face of a near-certain court defeat?

Kgalema Motlanthe and Tokyo Sexwale are deeply unhappy about President Jacob Zuma's decision to release the Donen report into the Oilgate scandal.

In the countdown to the ANC's elective conference nothing can be taken at face value.

The timing of President Zuma's release of the Oilgate report has raised eyebrows, as it is said to implicate his rivals for the ANC presidency.

President Jacob Zuma will release the report on the involvement of South Africans in the Iraq oil-for-food programme in December.

The DA has called for a probe into a report handed to Thabo Mbeki three years ago detailing the alleged knowledge officials had of shady oil deals.

The Oil for Food programme may become a focus of the Donen Commission of Inquiry, which starts public hearings on May 8.