The NPA is investigating eThekwini municipal manager Sipho Nzuza to determine whether he broke his bail conditions while back at work.
The corruption-fraught metro is coming to grips with having a municipal manager who is on bail for graft, yet has returned to work
The spate of arrests for corruption continues apace in Gauteng and the Eastern Cape.
The eight-year battle for justice played out its next round in the Mahikeng high court this week
Ace Magashule’s anxiety has to do with the array of arrests of high-profile people facing fraud and corruption charges
Learning from its failure to turn the Schabir Shaik conviction into one for Jacob Zuma, the state is now building an effective system for catching thieves. Khaya Koko, Sabelo Skiti and Paddy Harper take a look behind the scenes at how law enforcement agencies have started creating consequences for the corrupt
Phillip Truter, the former chief financial officer of the defunct mutual bank who pleaded guilty to fraud and other charges, will work with authorities on how the alleged heist took place
President Cyril Ramaphosa needs to hold ‘fireside chats’ and have more power and institutional muscle around him, writes Richard Calland
The ANC has used its power to create networks of patronage. And this means going after corruption will cost the party financially
Lawyers have told Parliament’s higher education portfolio committee that it can’t examine sexual misconduct allegations against Vice-Chancellor Peter Mbati
The governing party appears to be struggling to enforce the ban on support for leaders facing criminal charges
The unrepentant, recalcitrant ANC secretary general thinks it’s okay for his and other wayward comrades’ kids to loot
The struggling power utility has updated Parliament on investigations into contracts where more than R4-billion was lost in overpayments
Disgraced former SAA chairperson Dudu Myeni has been declared a delinquent director by the high court in Pretoria, over her conduct while leading the broke airline’s board of directors. The lifetime order means Myeni will no longer be considered fit and proper to hold the position of director of any entity, and will have to […]
As well as its scathing findings on Mkhwebane’s investigation into Ramaphosa, the high court also made important in-principle pronouncements
The aspirant prosecutors programme, on hold for years because of lack of funds, has started up again, creating a pool of future prosecutors
Political parties want more details on SOE bailouts, wage cutbacks
Another apartheid-era death will be investigated after NPA pressured to finally act
Life moves at a heady pace in South Africa and with it the march of history. In dealing with the sins of yesterday we must realise that we have to also deal with the sins of yesteryear
Pressure is mounting on the NPA to charge the former president and others involved in political killings
during apartheid
While the ANC in Parliament found itself defending the presence of FW de Klerk at the State of the Nation address last week, the government was also — in court this time — defending an apartheid-era law
Sugar barons going down and the new marijuana Bill are
timely distractions from thinking
about the old man
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is still deciding whether to prosecute the Tongaat Hulett executives — including its former chief executive — allegedly responsible for the R11-billion fraud which has gutted the sugar and property giant. The 10 former top managers from the company’s South African, Mozambican and Zimbabwean operations were implicated in accounting irregularities, […]
It will take the end of patriarchy and an efficient justice system to jail more offenders
Counsel for late trade unionist Neil Aggett’s family decries the slow pace of instituting an inquest into his death
The trade unionist was found hanged in his cell at the John Vorster Square police station in 1982
In his application for leave to appeal, Zuma argued that an appeal court could find the prosecution had dirty hands so the trial should not proceed
In the past year alone, the Asset Forfeiture Unit has recovered money and assets gained through corruption-related crimes
A letter signed by 40 senior women lawyers called the absence of female silks from the state capture prosecutions team ‘astonishing’
Under the NPA Act, Parliament may still reverse Ramaphosa’s decision to fire Jiba. There is also Part B of her court case, still to come
A civil society conference later this month will discuss what needs to be done to rebuild state institutions that will serve the public’s needs