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Much to beef about: Onderstepoort Biological Products is a state-owned entity charged with preventing and controlling animal diseases. (Photo: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

State agency lies about exec ‘purge’

South Africa’s animal vaccine agency said staff fled to avoid blame, but its CEO had in fact paid them to leave

The claim that the president knew that public money was abused by the ANC for internal campaigns and failed to report it was not substantiated. (Jarius Mmutle/GCIS)

Find out who didn’t make the cut for Ramaphosa’s Cabinet

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Cabinet has been lauded for its inclusion of youthful faces and women.

A national cannabis master plan has been developed, with the department of trade and industry tasked with its implementation and administration

Police can smoke out dagga farmers

​Agriculture minister Senzeni Zokwana has told Eastern Cape cannabis farmers not to expect protection from his department

Job losses: The slowdown in the South African economy has had a crippling effect on unemployment, which is sitting at 27.2%. (Madelene Cronjé)

R48bn needed for Ramaphosa’s stimulus packages

Government will have to fork out billions to implement the president’s economic growth plans

President Cyril Ramaphosa confirmed in the National Assembly on Thursday a total of R15.3-million was spent by government on Zuma’s “personal legal costs” since 2006.

Hawks probe Zuma for R1m bribe

Jacob Zuma is being investigated by the Hawks for allegedly accepting a R1-million cash bribe in exchange for keeping Senzeni Zokwana in his Cabinet

The cargo ship MV Asphalt Venture arrives in Mombasa in 2011. After the vehicle was ‘arrested’ in Richard’s Bay the legal dispute landed up in a South African high court.

R6-billion for drought relief

The Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister has allocated more funds to relieve drought affecting several provinces

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Senzeni Zokwana (Gustav Butlex/ M&G)

M&G Cabinet Report Card 2017: Senzeni Zokwana

The M&G Cabinet Report Card has become a respected barometer of government performance. Here are the scores for 2017.

Director Ava DuVernay and actor David Oyelowo.

Muthambi latest Cabinet minister to suspend top officials

Muthambi announced on Sunday the suspension of her chief financial officer and a deputy director general.

Red flag: The SACP is to consider turning its back on the ANC and going it alone at the polls. Photo: Madelene Cronjé

SACP rounds on its leaders who back Zuma

The agriculture minister, the presidency deputy minister, four premiers and Cosatu’s leader are in the sights of the anti-JZ faction

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ANC senior leaders, alliance partners come out in support of Gordhan

The timing of the fraud claims against the finance minister has raised suspicions among close to a dozen of the party’s NEC members.

Biya’s repeated long absences from Cameroon, mostly in Switzerland or in his home village in southern Cameroon, have been bitterly criticised. (Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty)

Zuma gathers allies close to fend off opposition

A Cabinet reshuffle and strategic changes are in the pipeline, with the near-complete removal of opposition being the target.

Gwede Mantashe has warned that the price for pursuing Zwelinzima Vavi is too high.

NUM’s Zokwana joins plea for Cosatu compromise

Veteran unionist Senzeni Zokwana has joined Gwede Mantashe’s call for leaders in Cosatu’s two main factions to solve their differences.

NUM’s Zokwana dealt with lightly at the Farlam commission

It has been an interesting week at the Farlam commission of inquiry as "underprepared" advocate Dali Mpofu faced NUM president Senzeni Zokwana.

NUM president denies calling Marikana strikers criminals

The National Union of Mineworkers’ president Senzeni Zokwana says he did not think the people gathering at the koppie in Marikana were criminals.

Being arguably the most significant witness to take the stand so far

Marikana: Amcu’s president sticks to his testimony

Amcu’s leader Joseph Mathunjwa has done very little talking at the Marikana commission. Yet when the dust settled, he emerged somewhat vindicated.

Crowd ­control experts say the ­shootings expose poor training

Lonmin crisis: A tinderbox of discontent

Violence has become the modus operandi of such strikes in South Africa and Lonmin is no exception, writes Kwanele Sosibo.

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The SACP’s new handlers

With two of the SACP’s senior leaders now government ministers, Solly Mapaila will run the communists. These two will be his aides.

Top lefties snub ANC jobs

Key Cosatu and SACP leaders have surprisingly declined ANC nominations for seats in the National Assembly after this year’s general election.

‘Deliberate effort’ behind attacks

South Africa’s security chief on Friday accused rightwingers linked to the former apartheid government of fanning xenophobic violence that has spread to Cape Town, the second…

Goldfields denies it left miner’s body to rot

The body of a miner who was crushed by rocks at the Beatrix gold mine at Welkom two weeks ago has not been exhumed, Gold Fields said on Tuesday. ”We temporarily suspended the…