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Fin24 Journalist based in Cape Town.

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. (Reuters)
BUSA

BUSA, Sacci at odds over petition to remove Mkhwebane as Public Protector

In a statement issued on Wednesday, BUSA said Mkhwebane is not "competently and fairly" upholding the Constitution

  • Jan Cronje
3 min read
Brian Molefe guns for Cyril Ramaphosa, alleging that the president’s relationship with Glencore was only a ploy to siphon money out of Eskom.(Gallo)
BRIAN MOLEFE

Molefe did not get approval for massive Transnet locomotive price hike, inquiry hears

The 1 064 locomotives were meant to upgrade and modernise Transnet’s fleet, but the contract has been dogged by allegations of corruption

  • Jan Cronje
2 min read
Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago noted that high levels of economic uncertainty persist, as Russia’s continues to wage war on Ukraine. (Moeletsi Mabe/Gallo)
BUSISIWE MKHWEBANE

Kganyago again slams Public Protector in speech on central bank independence

The Reserve Bank governor was in Washington to deliver a speech on central bank independence at the Peterson Institute for International Economics

  • Jan Cronje
2 min read
Survé told the commission that this was the fault of media competitors who sabotaged the listing of Sagarmatha Technologies and “blatantly put negative propaganda in the public space”. (Lerato Maduna/Gallo)
DAN MATJILA

Survé compares Sagarmatha to Uber, says it would have been valued at $10bn

Iqbal Survé, on Tuesday claimed that bad press from rival media houses scuppered the listing of Sagarmatha Technologies on the JSE and the NYSE

  • Jan Cronje
  • Sibongile Khumalo
3 min read
Iqbal Survé’s Sekunjalo Investment Holdings denies it owes the PIC more than R1-billion it used to acquire the media group. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AYO TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

Survé set to testify at PIC inquiry

Survé is expected to testify after Kuben Naidoo, the deputy governor of the South Africa Reserve Bank

  • Jan Cronje
  • Sibongile Khumalo
2 min read
On Monday, the inquiry — chaired by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo — continued with evidence from Gert Opperman, a coal supply unit manager at the power utility.
COAL

Eskom ‘misled’ treasury over multi-billion rand Gupta contract

According to testimony before the Zondo commission, Eskom appears to have misled treasury about the quality of coal from a Gupta-owned coal mine

  • Jan Cronje
2 min read
Mboweni said Sanral must “reverse that decision immediately”. (David Harrison/M&G)
BUDGET

Mboweni’s Budget shows further erosion in SA’s fiscal strength — Moody’s

Moody’s currently has South Africa’s debt at Baa3 with a stable outlook, one notch above junk status

  • Jan Cronje
2 min read
The national power utility is about R420-billion in debt and has been seeking ways to reduce its liabilities. (David Harrison/M&G)
CALIB CASSIM

Nersa to begin hearings on electricity tariffs

Over the course of three weeks, Nersa will hold hearings on what the debt-laden power utility

  • Carin Smith
  • Jan Cronje
2 min read
STAR had also, through its subsidiaries, provided loans to directors and key management personnel in terms of the Pepkor Management Investment Scheme via an entity called Business Ventures Investments.
JAN CRONJE

JSE fines Pepkor Holdings R5m for breaches of listing requirements

The JSE says the company had not disclosed certain financial information about loans in its pre-listing statement

  • Jan Cronje
2 min read
PP Busisiwe Mkhwebane found that the allegation that Gordhan violated the Executive Code of Ethics by deliberately misleading Parliament through failing to disclose that he met a member of the Gupta family was “substantiated”.(Madelene Cronje)
AGENCY

Public Protector subpoenas Gordhan over case dropped in 2016

PP investigation will focus on the early retirement of former Sars official Ivan Pillay and his subsequent re-employment by the tax agency

  • Jan Cronje
3 min read
Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene reported to Parliament a few months ago that 112 municipalities did not have the financial resources to execute their service delivery plans. (David Harrison/M&G)
NHLANHLA NENE

Nene: Recession a risk for tax revenues

Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene said it would be hard for government to implement ambitious social security programmes without growing tax revenues

  • Jan Cronje
2 min read
The Sars inquiry hearings were last held in June. (Gallo Images)
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

Sars inquiry resumes, three senior officials set to give evidence

The inquiry has a broad mandate to investigate issues of corporate governance and allegations of misconduct at the revenue collection agency

  • Jan Cronje
  • Sibongile Khumalo
1 min read
SOLIDARITY TRADE UNION

SAA vows to seek equity partner immediately amid funding crunch

Vuyani Jarana says funding pressures dictated that ​South African Airways start looking for a strategic equity partner immediately

  • Jan Cronje
2 min read
The retailer’s stock is still down by over 95% from where it was before news of Markus Jooste’s resignation reached the market.
JAN CRONJE

Steinhoff shares jump 40%, reach best price in two months

The retailer’s stock is still down by over 95% from where it was before news of Jooste’s resignation reached the market

  • Jan Cronje
1 min read
Moyane said the argument of mootness was a ‘stillborn effort which betrays either desperation or serious lack of understanding of what mootness is’. (Paul Botes/M&G)
COMMISSION OF INQUIRY

Moyane’s SARS ultimatum to Ramaphosa

​Lawyers acting for suspended Sars commissioner Tom Moyane have demanded that President Ramaphosa halt or "disestablish" investigations into Sars

  • Jan Cronje
2 min read