People in the Ekurhuleni area that is named after the MK party’s leader believe it will bring positive change
Our last election demand must now be to the politicians who will decide the country’s future in the coming 14 days
Ramaphosa used the better half of his address to the nation to campaign for the ANC
The bill lays the foundation for a single public procurement framework, provides transparency clauses that will boost the fight against state capture and corruption, and compels the state to do more to support local businesses and thus jobs
A significant portion of respondents in a Corruption Watch study have given gifts to and done favours for police officers, prosecutors and other officials
The ANC veteran says his previous apology for the Eskom crisis was not appropriate, instead pointing a finger at the Zuma administration and the utility itself
A new play by a new playwright explores shenanigans in South Africa’s politics
Playwright Richard Calland describes the main character “Uncle” as being a Mac Maharaj-like figure with other ANC-types thrown into the mix
The political drama about corruption and power is clever, gripping and insightful
The magistrate took the most drastic option in the case involving the former Eskom chief executive, Batohi said, while conceding that the National Prosecuting Authority was learning from its setbacks
The party’s secretary general said the ANC had removed people from its election candidates lists those who were affected by its step-aside rule and those with criminal records
The ruling party seems to have failed to remove tainted people from its parliamentary lists
The ANC leader, who was implicated in the commission on state capture chaired by the chief justice, said Zondo had the ‘serious weakness’ of thinking the report was about himself
This is despite Fikile Mbalula announcing that those implicated in the Zondo commission will not be included if their names have not been cleared
South Africa’s pursuit of state-capture redress is a story of stalemates and setbacks, but also some successes
Taxpayers’ pain has its roots set in a history that the finance minister could not overcome
The Pretoria high court found no common cause that the ANC policy has resulted in corruption, maladministration and state capture
The Democratic Alliance wanted the deployment policy implemented by the ANC declared unconstitutional
The governing party says it will continue to implement its cadre development policy and deployment strategy
Governing party says the opposition is ‘fully aware’ that it cannot find five years’ worth of deployment committee minutes
The DA leader delivered the official opposition’s rescue plan for South Africa on Saturday, saying ‘we are in it to win it’
The president largely blamed the state of the country on the legacy of apartheid and the Zuma era but said the ANC was not finished yet
The debate on the State of the Nation address, predictably, became a campaign stump for all parties
The president said ‘every person responsible’ must be held to account, in a state of the nation address made with the election in mind
German software company SAP will cough up R2.2 billion. It’s a good start but not the end of the road
Analysts have highlighted the inability to prosecute key perpetrators of corruption as the country slip down the global Corruption Perception Index
The country performed worse than China and Cuba in Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index 2023
The players in the weapons scandal involving bribes of about $300 million escaped justice
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
Zondo is distrusted by the government, inevitably so because of his finding that the ANC was complicit in state capture
Instead of prompting us to recapture our past, our current economic plight suggests we should break from it