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
The National Prosecuting Authority has failed in another state capture case considered only the foothills of the mountain it must climb
The state capture case has suffered long delays, prompting a successful application by the defendants to have it thrown out of court
The National Prosecuting Authority lives to fight another day after losing face in the first state capture trial
The measure cannot guarantee independency of the entity because it fails to address the reliance of the National Prosecuting Authority itself on the justice ministry
The public enterprises minister responds to coverage about his conduct at state firms
Online news articles in September were dominated by references to courts – cadre deployment, contempt, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, Eskom, corruption, Makhanda high court
The envisaged court would prosecute kleptocrats and corrupt officials and have powers to repatriate money stolen during incidents such as state capture
But first justice officials want their Emirati counterparts to say plainly why the first was denied
The National Prosecuting Authority claims it is as frustrated as the public with the slow pace at which state capture cases are moving
The Special Investigation Unit wants to ‘pursue’ those who left to avoid accountability for their actions
The official opposition has accused the ruling party of playing for time after it was ordered to release the record of decision-making on public service appointments
Apart from seven cases before court, dozens more are under investigation, the minister told parliament
The Special Investigating Unit told parliament that settlement agreements with various companies were in the pipeline
As in the Nulane case, the prosecution alleges that the now fugitive Gupta brothers conspired with the accused to fleece the Free State
The order raises questions as to who directs the defence of challenges to the work of commissions of inquiry
The State Capture Commission made 205 recommendations on the criminal investigation and possible prosecution of people and companies
The trial judge said the prosecution was trying to reserve questions of fact, not law
The Economic Freedom Fighters leader has urged the president to do this to avoid further civil unrest and violence similar to the July 2021 riots
The resignation comes at the height of renewed attacks on long-haulage trucks