The smoke signal comes from irregular expenditure and over the past seven years, there has been about R1.65-billion of it. Auditor general Kimi Makwetu tells Athandiwe Saba that this is when the squandered money cries for help
The Hawks have distanced themselves from a news report that the ANC’s secretary general Ace Magashule has been issued with a warrant of arrest
Top cop says more big players will be added to the list of accused as the state prepares to go to court
Current ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule has been cleared of allegations that he misled the Free State provincial legislature when he was premier of that province. It follows a complaint by the Democratic Alliance’s Roy Jankielsohn, who asked the public protector to investigate whether Magashule lied about payments made for the funeral of health MEC Fundiswa […]
Businessman Edwin Sodi and senior civil servants are among those arrested over the R200-million theft of state funds
Maluti-A-Phofung council report wants former municipal manager to pay back the money he spent on communications company that was meant to establish a call centre for the QwaQwa community
The ANC creates the impression that racism is tolerated and acceptable when perpetrated by its members
The department is fighting with a small Free State town, which it accuses of continuing to employ an illegal immigrant
Municipalities are in complete disarray, with many of them flagged by the auditor-general for deliberate lack of accountability and tolerance for transgressions by political and administrative leadership while billions are squandered.
The mayor, her relatives and their friends keep landing lucrative tenders and using state resources. Yet Lindiwe Makhalema has failed to declare the list of her relationships with people and companies benefiting from the municipality
The Free State ANC blames lockdown for no disciplinary action against Nkosinjani Speelman
The Western Cape has become the epicentre of the outbreak, and the tardy response of health officials in the Eastern Cape has Minister Zweli Mkhize worried but optimistic
Welkom mayor Nkosinjani Speelman has allegedly been continuing to perform his duties, despite his ‘suspension’
Tracing the close contacts of people who test positive for coronavirus disease is a delicate dance. Here’s why these health workers wait
for the cover of darkness to take action
Covid-19 transmissions in mosques and churches have complicated our relationships with them
Sisi Ntombela has announced the cancellation of all big events in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak
The cost of placing South African evacuees from Wuhan in quarantine in Limpopo will cost an estimated R6.7-million
Free State to suspend bursaries of students repatriated from Wuhan
Top US official is lobbying multinational firms to invest in South Africa
As ‘impisoned’ children at epicentre cry to be reunited with their parents, top official says families mustn’t be ungrateful
A small Free State dorp and 14 days of isolation — this is the plan for citizens returning from China, to prevent a potential outbreak of the disease
A broken municipality and a four-year crisis forces residents to consider desperate choices, such as
trading sex for water
People are living in some of the many schools that have been closed because of low enrolment numbers. Others are used as business premises
Expelled ANC councillors win wards in the Free State municipality, but party retains council
High court says public protector’s failures when probing Gupta-linked project "impacted on the rights of the poor and vulnerable in society”
The payouts to affected miners who were part of the class action will provide a modicum of justice
While giving evidence on the Vrede Dairy saga, Roy Jankielsohn said officials who speak out against malfeasance could end up dead
The fight for press freedom and against Hlaudi’s antics is documented by one of the SABC8
Children commit crimes. The reasons they do are rarely simple and the solution is not a criminal record
School district officials and principals can achieve great results if they collaborate meaningfully
The AG has called for more leadership from municipalities and local government, as his office prepares to get more power to force accountability
Making programming compulsory in schools is a challenging prospect, but if the president wills it, there might be a way