National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi is linked to shadowy figures who were associated with slain businessman Brett Kebble. A <i>Mail & Guardian</i> investigation has revealed a web of relationships connecting Selebi to Clinton Nassif and Glenn Agliotti, who worked with Kebble on a series of "security" and other projects.
Oilgate company Imvume Management has constructed what appears to be a deliberate smear against the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>, claiming the newspaper had leaked information to an opposition party in contravention of a high court order. <i>M&G</i> editor Ferial Haffajee and Karjieker this week flatly denied the allegations.
The battle to recover millions of rands sucked out of companies controlled by the late Brett Kebble has intensified. According to the sequestration application, former North West premier Popo Molefe received R600Â 000 from one of the front companies set up by Kebble and ”investor relations manager” George Poole.
Questions are multiplying as the police delay action against sacked spy boss Billy Masetlha — despite unequivocal findings by the inspector general of intelligence that Masetlha and others were involved in criminal activity around the hoax e-mail scandal.
Auditor General Shauket Fakie has hit back at criticism by Parliament that his report on the declaration of interests by ministers, deputy ministers and government employees was based solely on outdated company information. The report revealed that 14 ministers and deputy ministers, and 1Â 678 provincial ministers and senior public service managers had not fully disclosed their financial interests in the 2003/04 financial year.
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/ 17 February 2006
Capetonians, for better or worse, are moving back to the central business district.
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/ 15 December 2005
The ”e-mails” currently being investigated by the Inspector General of Intelligence, Zolile Ngcakani, purport to provide evidence for a grand unified conspiracy theory of the succession battle in the African National Congress. These documents, however, show clear signs of being faked, including dubious e-mail addresses and demonstrably false content.
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/ 15 December 2005
The so-called "hoax e-mails" have emerged as a central focus of the struggle going on at the highest levels of the National Intelligence Agency and the African National Congress. The exchanges essentially purport to illustrate a political conspiracy led by a Xhosa cabal, assisted by white reactionaries in the Scorpions, media and opposition.
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/ 9 December 2005
A political storm is breaking around a Cape Town journalist who has been suspended over his alleged moonlighting for the Western Cape provincial government and for links through his wife’s company to supporters of Premier Ebrahim Rasool.
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/ 2 December 2005
Independent Communications Authority of South Africa councillor Mamodupi Mohlala has close links with companies bidding for licences that the council is due to adjudicate, leaked documents and company records show. The Mapungubwe consortium, where she is major shareholder, has applied for a radio licence in Limpopo.