This week, a Mail & Guardian investigation unearths what happens when the so-called construction mafia is allowed to run rampant in the country.
President Cyril Ramaphosa was due to appear before the commission on Monday and Tuesday but the presidency said Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo had asked that an alternative date be found
Donations included luxury accommodation on Cape Town’s Atlantic seaboard and help with his car payments, a forensic investigator told the state capture inquiry
Evidence leaders said the failure of the former SAA chairperson to appear was part of a pattern of avoiding accountability
The state capture inquiry heard forensic evidence on how the Guptas allegedly milked the Free State government in more than the Estina scandal
Malusi Gigaba’s estranged wife Nomachule Mngoma continued her testimony before the Zondo commission after a security threat hampered proceedings on Thursday evening.
The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal says it has plans to leverage Zuma’s popularity when it starts its election campaign for this year’s local general elections
The Zondo commission wanted the speaker to explain why there was no parliamentary inquiry into evidence of state capture
Inside sources say the NEC discussed Zuma’s attitude towards the judiciary after the integrity commission ordered him to appear before it
The ANC’s financial crisis has been intensified by President Cyril Ramaphosa refusing to once again bail out the party
The money was found within the existing budget of the justice department after the treasury said it was not prepared to make a further allocation
The president told the Zondo commission the ruling party dropped the ball but struggled over two days on the witness stand to explain how it happened and how a repeat will be prevented
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The deputy chief justice invited the president to reflect on the matter, given continued corruption since 2017 when he said the party reached a watershed
President Cyril Ramaphosa acknowledged that cadre deployment was abused to further state capture, but played for time when Zondo pressed him for details as to how it happened
The president conceded the ANC must answer for what happened on its watch as he took the witness stand days before the party is to expel implicated members refusing to step aside
The former Transnet chief executive tells the Zondo commission the events described in crisp detail by his former driver were fiction
EOH allegedly inflated prices of Microsoft licences, which could have been bought by the defence department for a third of the cost
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The speaker told the Zondo commission she doesn’t know why the legislature woke up to state capture so late, but believes this won’t happen again
The deputy chief justice said it was not clear if the burglary and a recent shooting were more than criminality, but vowed no one would deter the inquiry
Former president Jacob Zuma on Wednesday submitted a 21-page letter to Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng out of “respect”, to let the head of the Constitutional Court know that he would not be deposing an affidavit about an appropriate sanction should he be found to be in contempt of court, as Mogoeng had directed. Mogoeng had […]
Mngoma cites personal concerns about the way her ‘proposed appearance’ had been ‘handled or mishandled’
‘Going to the commission under Zondo, personally I believe that is absolutely not a good thing for comrade Zuma to do’ – Jesse Duarte in leaked recording of infamous March top six meeting
Faced with stark evidence, former CEO says evidence leaders are trying to twists facts and intimidate him
The power utility’s former chief executive prefaced his testimony by asking if the president would have to answer to claims that he meddled in Eskom
The former president’s latest invective came after the Constitutional Court heard argument from the Zondo commission that he must be jailed for aggravated contempt
Zondo commission’s legal counsel tells top court a suspended sentence would allow the former president to run rings around the inquiry — again
The deputy chief justice has signalled his ‘extreme concern’ at the disrespectful manner in which the lawyer treated the commission
Symington returned to bizarre ‘hostage drama’ and implicated the former Sars commissioner in fabricating charges against Pravin Gordhan with the Hawks
The consulting firm said it would suffer prejudice if its version were not made public to counter testimony. But Zondo says Bain created its own dilemma
The president will give evidence both in his capacity as the head of state and as the leader of the governing party
While the Constitutional Court prepares to hear the matter of contempt against Jacob Zuma, groups defending SA’s democracy and pro-Zuma groups take the stage
Former Sars commissioner Tom Moyane’s cross-examination digs up the ‘rogue unit’ narrative to attack minister’s character