State capture is often cited as the the reason for the department’s ongoing failures, but its problems run far deeper
The journey to full-blown austerity is marked by changes to an economy presided over by a government adrift
Former presidents and secretaries were uninvited to try cut costs but have now been asked to attend again
The permit, which has allowed tens of thousands of Zimbabweans to live, work and study in South Africa, was initially to be terminated in December 2022
The president has made strides in renewing the state but how he deals with individuals in the ANC linked to state capture may be his undoing in the party
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Judge Sulet Potterill told the JSC the battle to bring women into the highest echelons of the judiciary will be won
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The finance minister is not the first politician to get into hot water over claims of sexual misconduct
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The president’s failings were mentioned. Read between the lines and you’ll find Farmgate too
The largest sources of state capture money were Transnet and Eskom, two of South Africa’s most fragile state-owned entities
Fugitives Rajesh and Atul Gupta were arrested four months after Interpol issued a Red Notice against them. But they are just the latest.
Former Transnet chief executive Siyabonga Gama and four others have been arrested on charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering.
Dondo Mogajane is set to pursue new opportunities outside the public sector after his contract as treasury director general expires
A group of Zimbabweans challenging their exclusion from the bar say their home is here, and it is populist opportunism to use unemployment figures to keep their their lives in limbo
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The former Transnet group chief executive was one of the key architects of the capture and looting of the state-owned entity
The Zondo commission’s second report deals with the capture of Transnet through the Gupta racketeering enterprise
In 2016, Prinsloo sounded the alarm about the hazardous condition of the Blue Train and free trips being offered to friends of Transnet executives, including the Gupta family and Duduzane Zuma.
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The state capture report reveals a governance crisis at state-owned entities. Experts weigh in on how this came to be and what to do about it.
A busy year looms for Ramaphosa and allies as he fights to lead the ANC and the country come 2024.
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The first of three reports to be handed to the president outlines how misrepresentations by the former SAA board chairperson cost the airline R800-million
Zuma went to jail rather than testify. Some who did told blatant lies. Who decided Cabinet appointments and how much money was carried out of Saxonwold?
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South Africans listened to the weird testimony of people who denied they looted the country’s coffers — except Zuma, who refused to respond
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The case Zuma refused to answer before Zondo
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It became hard to suspend disbelief as Ramaphosa repeatedly told the Zondo commission that he did not know of the abuses ripping through the state machinery while he was deputy president
Sizakele Mzimela, under cross-examination by the former minister’s lawyers, also tells of ‘ambush’ at a meeting when the Gupta-linked Jet Airways placed undue pressure on the national airline to cancel its Mumbai route
This Constitutional Court ruling comes at an inconvenient time for the Ramaphosa faction. Magashule’s strength is waning, but Zuma still wields significant support
The former public enterprises minister says he was deliberately removed from state companies’ dealings and could not have learned of the looting
The former minister was confronted with testimony that the airline was bullied, including by his special adviser, on his watch
The former cabinet minister told the Zondo commission he cannot see how the court concluded there was no evidence of a plot to kill him
The former cabinet minister told the Zondo commission he cannot see how the court concluded there was no evidence of a plot to kill him
The deputy chief justice said the three-month extension would allow the commission to hear the testimony of about six witnesses
The couple’s acrimony continued to play out at the Zondo commission on Monday, as the former minister denied the Guptas funded his wardrobe and family
The former minister told the Zondo commission that his wife fabricated her testimony on his ties with the Guptas, like she had embellished her own past