The Presidency released a statement saying that Zuma had authorised the SIU to investigate "certain matters in respect of procurement" at the SABC
KwaZulu-Natal’s acting Hawks boss, General Alfred Khana, says they had assumed they needed to focus their probe on government departments instead.
The ANC’s Marius Fransman and Pierre Uys walked out of a Scopa meeting, where they were due to answer for alleged wasted public funds.
Scopa’s chairperson has criticised Marius Fransman and Pierre Uys for walking out of a hearing on the mismanagement of public funds.
Officials say finance watchdog Scopa chair Hlomane Chauke ran up a fortune on a credit card he wasn’t entitled to use.
Scopa has raised a concern surrounding the government’s reliance on consultants, says a report, after some departments spent billions on consultants.
A damning report on basic education spending queries the adequacy of the state’s watchdog committees.
Justice Minister Jeff Radebe will announce the terms of reference for the new arms deal inquiry today, in a saga that continues to shake SA politics.
President Jacob Zuma announces an inquiry in to the arms deal — but will it just be a "sweetheart commission"?
Is Thuli Madonsela the new Willem Heath? A curious question, you might well think.
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts was expected to meet on Wednesday to decide if it should re-open the multibillion-rand arms deal probe.
It was not known why the probe into the arms deal was closed, as the Hawks failed to respond to queries from Scopa, the committee’s chairperson says.
Themba Godi has, some would argue, the toughest job in Parliament — taking ministers to task when taxpayers’ money is misspent or stolen.
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/ 12 November 2010
The SABC’s acting chief operations officer, who was caught on security camera eavesdropping on a board meeting, has stepped down from her post.
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/ 28 September 2009
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe on Monday urged the various legislatures’ public accounts committees to strengthen their oversight role further.
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/ 30 September 2008
There is strong evidence that the deposed president undermined the investigation into South Africa’s arms procurement.
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/ 13 February 2008
A resolution to open up the arms deal to further discussion was shot down by the standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) on Wednesday. Democratic Alliance MP Eddie Trent, who brought the proposal, finally withdrew it and agreed to the suggestion that the committee merely look into what progress has been made in implementing Scopa’s recommendations.
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/ 6 February 2008
The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Wednesday lauded the decision by the chairperson of Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa), Themba Godi, to place the DA’s request for Scopa to reopen the arms-deal probe on the agenda.
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/ 31 December 2007
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The state has identified a list of 218 witnesses it intends calling to testify in its case against African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma. Attached to the indictment, filed in the Pietermaritzburg High Court, the list of witnesses includes Independent Democrat party leader Patricia de Lille and former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein.
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/ 23 October 2007
Is Frene Ginwala the appropriate person to chair the inquiry into the conduct of suspended National Director of Public Prosecutions Vusi Pikoli? Will she be impartial, or will she make findings that support President Thabo Mbeki’s controversial action regardless? My own experience of working with her raises some real concerns, writes Andrew Feinstein