Parliament’s joint ethics and members’ interests committee has exonerated ANC parliamentarian Thaba Mufamadi of misconduct allegations.
The home affairs department is paying R33-million a year rental for its new Pretoria offices — almost R8-million more than what it previously paid.
A parliamentary ethics committee wants a response to media reports of wrongdoing.
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/ 22 January 2008
The government will look at ways in which members of the Scorpions performing police functions can be absorbed into the police, a spokesperson said on Tuesday. The African National Congress has decided that such members of the Directorate of Special Operations should be absorbed into the South African Police Service.
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/ 21 January 2008
The African National Congress (ANC) is getting rid of the Scorpions in order to protect ANC members from corruption charges, according to the leader of the Democratic Alliance, Helen Zille. Zille said on Monday that besides the seven convicted criminals on the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC), six NEC members are currently the subject of investigations.
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/ 15 November 2007
Thousands of panel beaters — belonging to the National Guild of Independent Auto-Body Repairers — braved the scorching sun in Johannesburg on Thursday to protest against the repair policies of insurer Mutual & Federal. They accuse Mutual & Federal of using its dominant bargaining power to apply a ”divide and rule” strategy.
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/ 16 September 2007
A South African Communist Party (SACP) task team set up to investigate a controversial alleged donation by businessman Charles Modise has found no credible evidence that the donation ever existed, the party said on Sunday. The SACP said its political bureau took a ”dim view” of the conduct of Willie Madisha in the way he had handled the controversy.