Barbara Hogan
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Department of Public Enterprises
State capture is often cited as the the reason for the department’s ongoing failures, but its problems run far deeper
Department of Health
The department has tried to turn the health system around but it’s plagued by inefficiency, staff shortages, dismal leadership and governance failures
R57-billion: How the Guptas played Monopoly with state money
The largest sources of state capture money were Transnet and Eskom, two of South Africa’s most fragile state-owned entities
Former Transnet chief exec Siyabonga Gama, Gupta associate Eric Wood arrested
Former Transnet chief executive Siyabonga Gama and four others have been arrested on charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering.
Unbanned are now the damned
The ruling party was unbanned 32 years ago on 2 February, but few ANC leaders can be feeling festive today
Gupta kickbacks: Zondo recommends investigations into Gigaba, Molefe, Gama and Singh
The Zondo commission’s second report deals with the capture of Transnet through the Gupta racketeering enterprise
Zuma’s silence leaves state capture’s truth up to inference
The case Zuma refused to answer before Zondo
Playing ping-pong with Zondo, Ramaphosa concedes it came down to politics
The president told the Zondo commission the ruling party dropped the ball but struggled over two days on the witness stand to explain how it happened and how a repeat will be…
Ramaphosa distances himself from dubious Zuma-era appointments
President Cyril Ramaphosa acknowledged that cadre deployment was abused to further state capture, but played for time when Zondo pressed him for details as to how it happened
Parliament owes South Africa an apology on state capture — Modise
The speaker told the Zondo commission she doesn’t know why the legislature woke up to state capture so late, but believes this won’t happen again
Gama says the Gupta meeting was an ambush
The former Transnet boss says luck, not political meddling, was behind his baffling reinstatement
Legal bias doctrine basis of Zuma’s recusal application to Zondo
The former president’s advocate and commission lawyers were embroiled in a showdown of who best argued the apprehension of bias doctrine
Zondo: Zuma was MEC, not president so he couldn’t boost my judicial career
The application for the state capture commission chair to recuse himself lays bare the history of the two men
Aggett tormentor had a ‘morbid’ obsession — Barbara Hogan
The former minister told the inquest into the trade unionist Neil Aggett’s death that security branch interrogator Stephan Whitehead was voyeuristic
Zuma trips up over SOE interference claims
Former president’s legal team halts proceedings, arguing its client is being cross-examined