MPs have decided the justice and correctional services portfolio committee will look into the Mkhwebane’s fitness to hold office.
Those allegations are not only unfounded but malicious, Mkhwebane says.
Busisiwe Mkhwebane has been accused of a conspiracy with the spy agency and presidency
Public protector made findings against Absa without pursuing evidence submitted by key witnesses, says Maria Ramos.
"She’s setting the record straight … currently, how things are playing out, it’s a bit silly."
Absa is fighting to overturn Mkhwebane’s findings on a ‘misappropriated’ Bankorp bailout
Busisiwe Mkhwebane won’t oppose the Bank’s application to have the report reviewed but the Bank says there are factual inaccuracies in the report.
BLF leader Andile Mngxitama promised to continue his efforts “by any means necessary.”
The interim order was granted in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg late on Thursday afternoon.
Recently, the ANC Women’s League also made similar remarks.
Absa has said it is seeking a high court review of the Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s report on a bailout the bank received during the apartheid years.
Busisiwe Mkhwebane has touched on two highly contentious issues.
Busisiwe Mkhwebane has released the Ciex report – but the Guptas and their state capture links to politicians and state boards didn’t get a showing
"Earlier this year, the commission brought a case against 17 major local and international financial institutions for collusion"
Absa fought tooth and nail on a previous tender, but now it is conspiciously absent.
The bank’s South African unit, Absa, says the Competition Commission is not seeking any administrative penalty against it.
Nationalisation would leave people at the mercy of a government that has already proven to be self-serving and intent on growing personal wealth.
Beyond the language of price-fixing and collusion, this type of behaviour by bankers amounts to taking food off the tables of South Africans.
If all 17 institutions are penalised, the country’s R140‑billion budget deficit could be wiped out in one fell swoop.
‘White monopoly capital’ is trotted out at whim. But we should beware hidden agendas
Instead, it relies on the Ciex report, which is little more than a sales pitch by a bounty hunter.
The ex-president was one of many prominent figures to be interviewed in the probe into a bailout given to Absa.
The party also criticised Madonsela for her handling of the State of Capture report.
Billy Masetlha told the public protector that Thabo Mbeki and Trevor Manuel’s justification was a ruse.
We answer some of the questions you had pertaining to the public protector’s preliminary report on the bank.
That the public protector’s finding on Absa is going to become a terrible political mess is inevitable, writes Phillip de Wet.
When the apartheid state was dissolved, the expectation was that robust policy would ensure that black South Africans would be adequately empowered.
The public protector has revived an old probe into a bank rescue, leaving the government red faced over its inaction.
The Mail & Guardian spoke to some of the protesters who marched on three of SA’s biggest banks and asked them what they thought of the Guptas.
Cosatu has lambasted businesses that have cut ties with the Gupta family’s Oakbay company, saying it would affect innocent workers as a result.
No one’s talking, but gauging from FNB, Absa and KPMG’s actions, it’s clear big business has hunkered down to avoid the political fall-out.
Satirist Justin Nurse attended the opening of a collection of visual arts exhibitions at The Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees’s (KKNK) opening night.