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Thanduxolo Jika is an investigative Journalist and Co-Author of We are going to kill each other today:The Marikana Story. The Messiah of Abantu.

Power play: Oscar Mabuyane (right), the Eastern Cape’s provincial chairperson, is a strong supporter of the ANC’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa. Photo: Lulama Zenzile
ACE MAGASHULE

ANC won’t rake up its bad apples

The ruling party faces severe criticism over its reluctance to deal with leaders who are facing investigations, and its NEC is accused of selective morality

  • Thanduxolo Jika
3 min read
702

702: Vitriol dims the radio’s star

702 has recently lost a number of high-profile presenters. It says this is part of a shift to gain listeners. But insiders say something is rotten

  • Thanduxolo Jika
5 min read
Public transport in Cape Town and its surrounds has stabilised somewhat following two weeks of disruption due to ongoing conflict over routes between two rival taxi associations.
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Fikile has a daring plan for taxis

The transport minister presented to the ANC’s top body a proposal to establish a bank for taxi operators and to subsidise the industry

  • Thanduxolo Jika
  • Mail Guardian Correspondent
6 min read
Criticised: Council of Medical Schemes registrar Sipho Kabane
COUNCIL FOR MEDICAL SCHEMES

War of words over declined medical aid merger

Sizwe Medical Fund has taken a swipe at the Council for Medical Schemes for declining its merger with Hosmed

  • Thanduxolo Jika
3 min read
Dondo Mogajane (left) and Tito Mboweni. (Photo by David Harrison)
COVID 19

The PPE scandal that the Treasury hasn’t touched

Many government officials have been talking tough about dealing with rampant corruption in PPE procurement but the majority won’t even release names of who has benefited from the…

  • Sabelo Skiti
  • Thanduxolo Jika
  • Sarah Smit
5 min read
(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)
VOETSEKANC

ANC still at odds over how to tackle leaders facing serious graft allegations

The ANC’s top six has been mandated to work closely with its integrity committee to tackle claims of corruption against senior party members

  • Paddy Harper
  • Thanduxolo Jika
  • Mail Guardian Correspondent
6 min read
(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

It’s worse than we thought: The state of the SABC and the political battle over retrenchments

A bloated workforce, a stalemate over retrenchments and the need for the public broadcaster to be financially viable are holding back SABC’s turnaround strategy

  • Thanduxolo Jika
  • M&G Data Desk
6 min read
Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams (L) and Deputy Minister Pinky Kekana. (Photo: Siyabulela Duda)
BEMAWU

Political interference mounts over SABC retrenchments

The SABC says it needs to cut R700-million to survive. But senior politicians have allegedly interfered to stop retrenchments from proceeding

  • Thanduxolo Jika
6 min read
Phalaphala FM had long had an association with VBS, embarking on a series of charity events, including relief for impoverished schoolchildren, which the bank sponsored. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
BROADCASTING ELECTRONIC MEDIA AND ALLIED WORKERS UNION

SABC staff ready to join picket line

The national broadcaster has rejected claims that it did not follow correct retrenchment and audit processes

  • Thanduxolo Jika
4 min read
Comrades in arms: (from left) Stanley Mathabatha, Florence Radzilani, Soviet Lekganyane, Bishop Israel Makamu and Daniel Msiza during the ANC’s Limpopo provincial conference in June 2018 in Polokwane. The party has reinstated Radzilani and Msiza, who are among the people implicated in the looting of VBS Mutual Bank. (Photo: Antonio Muchave/Gallo Images/Sowetan)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

VBS looting haunts the ANC in Limpopo

The ANC is facing a revolt over the looting of VBS bank, which took money from poor communities, with warnings of electoral consequences in 2021 local elections

  • Thanduxolo Jika
  • Mail Guardian Correspondent
7 min read
Doth protest too much: Floyd Shivambu denies benefiting from VBS Mutual Bank looting and that he sold his ‘old’ BMW to his brother Brian, the amout of which equalled the shortfall for his new Range Rover
BMW

The case against Floyd Shivambu

The flow of money from VBS Bank would seem to suggest that the EFF’s second-in-command was an ultimate beneficiary of proceeds of a crime

  • Thanduxolo Jika
4 min read
On the warpath: Nthateng Maoke (centre), the former executive mayor of the Setsoto local municipality, is taking the department of home affairs to court to review its decision that she is not a South African citizen.
ANC

Municipality won’t remove former mayor, despite home affairs demands

The department is fighting with a small Free State town, which it accuses of continuing to employ an illegal immigrant

  • Thanduxolo Jika
3 min read
Criticised: Council of Medical Schemes registrar Sipho Kabane
COUNCIL FOR MEDICAL SCHEMES

Row over medical scheme merger

The amalgamation of Sizwe Medical Aid and Hosmed Medical Scheme, two major black-owned companies, has hit an unexpected hurdle

  • Thanduxolo Jika
  • Sabelo Skiti
7 min read
Health worker infections have risen to 170 at state and private hospitals and two healthcare staff succumb to the disease in a space of seven days. (Paul Botes/M&G)
ANDISILE PAMPILA

Covid infections among health workers increasing in Eastern Cape

Health worker infections have risen to 170 at state and private hospitals and two healthcare staff succumb to the disease in a space of seven days

  • Sabelo Skiti
  • Thanduxolo Jika
  • Chris Gilili
7 min read
As South Africa moves to lockdown level three, the Eastern Cape is struggling to keep up with contact tracing and testing for Covid-19. (John Moore/Getty Images)
CORONA LEAD

Eastern Cape fails tracing and testing

With the shift to lockdown level three on Monday, details are emerging of how the previous relaxation added pressure to the already poorly performing Eastern Cape Covid-19 response

  • Thanduxolo Jika
  • Athandiwe Saba
7 min read