Matlala said he funded both the suspended police minister and his predecessor as a quid pro quo
Matlala told parliament’s ad hoc committee that the connection was fabricated to take away his R36 million healthcare police contract
The murder suspect and alleged leader of the Big Five cartel said he was concerned that investigators would use his testimony against him in his criminal trial
The chief financial officer told parliament’s ad hoc committee that the suspended police minister used an information note calling for the police service’s restructuring to support his decision to disband the unit
The national director of public prosecutions said the suspended Gauteng director of public prosecutions’ actions in a KwaZulu-Natal case were politically motivated
Dangor said the US argument that if one G20 member was absent from the leaders summit, then there could be no consensus, had been voted down
Director general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said South Africa’s G20 presidency highlighted the importance of trade within WTO rules and reforming the system through local mineral beneficiation
Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said countries understood ‘that there’s a bilateral issue between South Africa and the US, but that must not, in any shape or form, undermine or imperil the work of the G20’
In an apparent reference to US President Donald Trump’s absence, Ramaphosa warned against allowing ‘anything to diminish the value, the stature or the impact of the first African G20 presidency’
The commission critiqued alleged middleman of suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu’s testimony and unsubstantiated claims