Paul Mashatile, Gauteng’s powerful but controversial finance minister, had a close relative’s tuition fees paid last year by a consultant who benefits from provincial government contracts. Documents show that a Midrand college invoiced Mashatile for tuition fees amounting to more than R20 000, but that the consultant, Donovan Nadison, paid.
In most supermarkets in the sprawling township of Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, empty shelves and butcheries with no meat in the cold rooms tell of a desperate reality. Even chickens are hard to come by. The government’s crack price monitoring teams will soon have no jobs, because “there will be nothing to monitor as all commodities have disappeared from shelves”, says Mercy Tiripo (32) of Mabvuku township, about 20km east of Harare.
If your sister or friend was killed in 2006, there is an 82% chance that you, or someone else they knew, did it. This is the implication of extraordinary statistics released by the South African Police Service (SAPS) at the Union Buildings recently. They showed that at least two-thirds of all contact crimes occur between people who know one another.
Two Zambian Air Force colonels were charged with stealing state funds, their lawyer said on Monday, and a Cabinet minister, in court fighting fraud charges, was fired as an anti-corruption campaign gains steam.
Human rights form a significant part of the new police curriculum, reports Tangeni Amupadhi F ROM now on police recruits will be trained to be nice to people, replacing the old-style “bandit-chasing”. About 200 000 applications have poured in for the 1 300 police posts advertised so far. Training with the new curriculum kicks off […]