An attempt to ambush the public protector falls flat, but sometimes Mkhwebane is her own worst enemy
It’s complicated, says Busisiwe Mkhwebane explaining that she lodged the intention to oppose the president to comply with court rules.
Kenny Kunene is funding a news website which he says will challenge white media ownership. Listen to the podcast below for the full story.
The threatened loss of a national icon, and the jobs that go with it, illustrates simply why a tax on sweetened drinks is such a divisive issue.
Sassa told a Parliamentary committee that the biometric cards used to identify social grant recipients at pay points will no longer work come April.
Bidders hoping to be part of Sassa’s grant payment system from April 1 have only a few details to get grants to 17-million people.
Sassa missed a critical deadline this week
The public protector’s leaked report into the Reserve Bank bailouts of Bankorp has set the cat among the pigeons.
Undoubtedly social grants will still be paid but some very tough questions need to be answered.
They include Qatar, American pensioners and the Public Investment Corporation, but the sums are smallish – and payment may never happen.