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Mass store and job cuts at Massmart

Business Tshegofatso Mathe - 17 Jan 2020

Changed market conditions and an appalling economy has hit low end cash-and-carry outlets

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ANC pushes through controversial committee chairpersons

Article Lester Kiewit - 2 Jul 2019

Controversial MPs who have engaged in questionable conduct are back in Parliament thanks to the governing party

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Dubious comrades sent by the ANC to head parliamentary committees

Article Lester Kiewit - 19 Jun 2019

After being cleared by the ANC’s internal ethics committee, prominent politicians from the Jacob Zuma’s administration are back in Parliament

Both allies opponents of President Cyril Ramaphosa on ANC lists receive objections

Article Natasha Marrian - 3 Apr 2019

The IEC has received objections to over 20 candidates on the ANC’s lists

Hawks investigate crude oil bribes

Article Sabelo Skiti & Athandiwe Saba - 15 Mar 2019

Strategic Energy Fund CEO Sibusiso Gamede received R20-million in bribes, a forensic report says

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#StateCaptureInquiry: Zuma Cabinet members turned against Nene

Article Sarah Smit - 3 Oct 2018

During his testimony before the commission, Minister Nhlanhla Nene detailed how pressure to approve a R1.6-trillion nuclear deal led to his axing

Trouble spills over at PetroSA

Article Athandiwe Saba & Sabelo Skiti - 31 Aug 2018

Two executives resign from the oil entity amid grumbles the chair is pursuing his own agenda

Fuel fund oil sale to be challenged in court

Article Athandiwe Saba - 16 Mar 2018

The Central Energy Fund is going to court over the sale of South Africa's oil reserves

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Dodgy oil deal probe gets going

Article Athandiwe Saba - 26 Jan 2018

Answers to how and why South Africa’s strategic oil stocks were sold could be provided by July

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Editorial: Time for Tina’s oily residue to be mopped up

Article Editorial - 5 May 2017

We should be asking serious questions about everything Joemat-Pettersson did while in office and we should certainly be probing the oil sale.

Ex-SSA man given top energy post

Article Staff Reporter - 28 Apr 2017

The new minister says: ‘He’s not here as a spook ... he was my choice ... and not forced on my office’

And then there were three: Tina Joemat-Pettersson resigns as MP

Article Staff Reporter - 6 Apr 2017

Pettersson was replaced by Mmamoloko Kubayi when President Jacob Zuma reshuffled his Cabinet last Thursday.

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Letters to the editor: January 6 to 12 2017

Article Staff Reporter - 6 Jan 2017

Readers write about report card missteps and the Ikusasa Student Financial Aid Programme

Eskom threatens fastest renewable expansion

Article Paul Burkhardt & Michael Coen - 6 Dec 2016

Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson and Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown have done little to pull Eskom into line.

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South Africa has a new energy plan. But will it break the bank?

Article Staff Reporter - 28 Nov 2016

The recently updated Integrated Resource Plan calls for significant investment in South Africa's power supply. But can the country afford it?

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The tender that keeps on giving

Athandiwe Saba - 18 Sep 2020

A battle between three North West departments has exposed how a firm was paid half a billion rand (and counting) for a R122-million contract

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