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Sedibeng Water CEO Tradewin Takalani

Forensic probe fingers CEO at Sedibeng Water

A lifeline to the driest parts of SA’s north west has been wracked by allegations of tender fraud, leading to the suspension of two of its officials.

Free State premier Ace Magashule at the ANC’s Mangaung conference

Dodgy World Cup deal comes back to bite Free State premier Ace Magashule

A businessman claims that his company was used as a front for an entity allegedly close to Magashule to supply R9.5M worth of soccer regalia.

Van Rooyen parked off in luxury hotel

Van Rooyen parked off in luxury hotel

Hundreds of thousands of rands have been spent while Des van Rooyen’s official home is readied.

‘Choose between mining and bloodshed’

‘Choose between mining and bloodshed’

Anti-mining activists in Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal are living in fear of their lives in a scenario that echoes the Xolobeni unease on the Wild Coast.

Pointing fingers: The Tlokwe council gave Future Phambili Petroleum a dubious contract to supply fuel to informal settlements. Residents have complained that the paraffin makes them sick. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Paraffin for poor fuels outrage

A R171-million contract, now under investigation, is seen as an ANC image-building exercise

Violation: Tribal leaders allowed industrial conglomerate Jindal to prospect in Makhasaneni without consulting residents

‘King’s Trust sells people out to mining’

Amid death threats, villagers take on their chief and an Indian company in a fight for their land

No nonsense guy: Mark-Anthony Williams was murdered in Pretoria

Peers fear upright water affairs official was assassinated

Hawks investigators have taken over the case, initially thought to be just a robbery gone wrong

Public wrangle: ANC Mathews Phosa has accused his former butler of theft and fraud. Photo: Oupa Nkosi

Phosa: What the butler ‘heard’

Vicious accusations and countercharges abound in Mathews Phosa’s domestic and political life.

No chickens come home to roost

No chickens come home to roost

Political infighting has frozen a multimillion-rand poultry project but no one is taking responsibility

Scam victims behind bars in Dubai

Scam victims behind bars in Dubai

The South Africans allegedly duped by a UAE trickster face an uphill battle to return home

Aurora meets Marikana at bloody Blyvoor

Illegal miners are reportedly being killed without consequence amid evidence of mine-stripping.

President Jacob Zuma’s wife Nompumelelo Ntuli.

Top cop heads probe into first lady ‘threat’

Uncertainty surrounds the arrest, hospitalisation and detention of a Tanzanian man charged with intimidating and extorting Nompumelelo Ntuli-Zuma.

FF+ spokesperson Pieter Groenewald.

FF+ accuses arms deal witness leader of perjury

The first week of public hearings at the arms commission has ended in a controversial perjury row involving witness leader advocate Simmy Lebala.

EE has long argued that a safe and dignified school environment is a component of the right to education.

Seta chief ‘is player and referee’

A board member is accused of exploiting insider knowledge to land a R26m contract.

EE has long argued that a safe and dignified school environment is a component of the right to education.

Seta chief ‘is player and referee’

A board member is accused of exploiting insider knowledge to land a R26m contract.

Download the KPMG forensic report

The 2006 forensic report prepared for Zuma’s trial that never saw the light of day … now made available in the public interest.

Other politicians at the Zuma trough

Most of the evidence concerns KwaZulu-Natal Premier Zweli Mkhize and Barbara Masekela, South Africa’s former ambassador to France.

Multiple homes for many MPs

A Cope, DA and ANC parliamentarian are the top three property owners in the House.

Ex-Numsa boss in arms bribe claim

A Swedish programme has aired allegations of a payment ostensibly intended for a union school.

Moses Mayekiso.

Ex-Numsa boss in arms bribe claim

A Swedish programme has aired allegations of a payment ostensibly intended for a union school. Drew Forrest and Tabelo Timse report.