The resignation comes at the height of renewed attacks on long-haulage trucks
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Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on Thursday that no new amendments regarding overseeing the intelligence services would be enacted
The suspended public protector suggested she would take the impeachment committee to court if it continued, despite her not having state funding
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Not investigating politicians is a breach of standards, former public protector tells inquiry into her successor, Busisiwe Mkhwebane
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Former public protector says intelligence agency opened documents couriered to her by the department of international relations
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The announcement comes just hours after deputy president David Mabuza resigns from parliament
Impeachment rules introduced for Jacob Zuma’s maleficence have caused Cyril Ramaphosa to trip
The power utility says it is inaccurate to suggest that it has deliberately delayed the vetting process for its executives
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The findings of the three-member panel will be debated in the House on 6 December
The tide is turning, impunity is no longer a given, says national prosecutions boss Shamila Batoyi
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The state’s capacity to counter threats, including those posed by immigration, must be strengthened, the former intelligence minister said at the ANC policy conference
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The resolution to heed state capture recommendations will survive ANC conference because the president can proclaim commitment to renewal while scandal corners him into compromise
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The media industry must scrutinise the source of information and every news story and opinion piece we run, to prevent us and our readers from becoming collateral damage in the factional wars in the governing party
The suspended public protector did not disclose that she had a copy of a classified intelligence report on a high risk unit in Sars but a recording suggests otherwise
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Thuso Oesi, a former SSA administrator accused of fraud, did not arrive in court for medical reasons
The president has singled out the part of the state capture report that recommends an investigation that includes Arthur Fraser’s alleged abuses be resumed
From Mbeki to Zuma to Ramaphosa, the facts and fictions of the intelligence networks have shadowed political players and settled power struggles
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The president’s response to the chief justice’s findings suggest he will continue to bide his time before the ANC conference in December
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The final chapter of the state capture report found that investigation was interrupted at Zuma’s urging to protect Fraser
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Part four of the report will be handed to the president soon but, in court papers, Zondo said he needed six more weeks to deliver the last instalment
This offshoot of Orwell’s Newspeak uses semantic obfuscation to hide state failures and abuses in the inherently ambiguous world of intelligence. Who knows what and how much it has cost South Africa?
The president, in a letter to a watchdog parliamentary committee, confirmed the authenticity of a leaked recording in which the problem is discussed, but said he was talking only to allegations made publicly by others
Not ‘trial ready’: 386 Special Investigating Unit referrals lead to just one case in court so far
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The presidency said the move required input from legal experts but analysts suggests it may in some way have been precipitated by the fire at parliament
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Zolani Matthews has been fired after an investigation found he deliberately and intentionally failed to disclose that he holds British citizenship
The former head of the State Security Agency and Zuma ally did not come close to complying with the state capture inquiry’s rules for cross-examination, Zondo said
No members of the police, defence force or state security have been implicated ‘at this stage’ in ongoing investigations into the July unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng
The deputy chief justice said all the former spy boss had to do to respond to bombshell testimony implicating him in state capture was to apply for a turn to testify
The former director general of intelligence’s character assassination of the deputy chief justice is straight out of the Zuma playbook
The suspended KZN prisons boss was barred from entering his office by armed security staff last week, at the behest of his national counterpart
The correctional services commissioner (and former spy boss tied to state capture) overruled the medical board’s dismissal of the former president’s application for parole
Whether national security should be located inside or outside the presidency must be considered based on functionality and constitutional values