Former finance deputy minister Mcebisi Jonas and ANC MP Vytjie Mentor are among the first witnesses who have been called to testify at the inquiry
"There should be no area of corruption and culprit that should be spared the extent of this commission of inquiry." – President Jacob Zuma
Former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor has alleged in a new book that President Jacob Zuma made inappropriate sexual advances on her.
It takes a particular kind of lawyer to make that shift from defending the state to defending the public, said former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor.
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The report details numerous dubious situations where Zuma and members of his executive acted in a questionable manner.
The former ANC MP wants the court to direct that Zuma pay the costs of the application.
The family’s lawyers said the finance minister’s court affidavit will be ‘dealt with in full’.
The ANC Youth League and Women’s league ‘will forever be serving the agenda of their master’, Mentor tells Cape Town Press Club.
Facebook famous former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor has hit back at the UKMVA chair, saying he pocketed millions of rands meant for anti-apartheid fighters.
Claims that its chief whip Jackson Mthembu had agreed to an investigation into allegations of "state capture" were labelled "ridiculous" by the ANC.
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Readers write in about capitalism, and owner-drivers.
Former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor took to Twitter to say that her Facebook was shut down by a third party, but that she would be back.
Rifts are showing in the ruling party after revelations that the Gupta family offered various ANC members positions in the South African Cabinet.
Former activist and ANC MP Vytjie Mentor claims to have a ‘trump card’ to corroborate her claim that the Guptas offered her a top government job.
The Guptas have allegedly fêted public officials before, and others may yet crawl out of the woodwork after a weekend ANC meeting.
Former President Thabo Mbeki speaks out about former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor, who this week accused the Guptas of offering her a ministerial position.
Vytjie Mentor has detailed the various times she interacted with the president during her tenure as ANC MP, suggesting he lied about not knowing her.
President Zuma has distanced himself from the ex ANC MP’s claims that she accompanied him overseas and that she was offered a job by the Guptas.
A former ANC MP allegedly claimed on Facebook that the Guptas offered her a position as a minister in exchange for benefits.
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/ 15 January 2010
The South African government on Thursday pledged R1-million for the relief effort in Haiti following the massive earthquake in the Caribbean republic.
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/ 21 February 2008
Though the country’s focus was firmly on Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s national budget this week, another important event should not go unnoticed.
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/ 21 February 2008
Floor-crossing will finally be scrapped, a media report said on Thursday. Following on a decision by the African National Congress’s Polokwane conference, Parliament’s committee on private members’ legislative proposals on Wednesday agreed to a draft Bill that will lead to the scrapping of the practice.
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/ 24 January 2008
African National Congress (ANC) parliamentary Chief Whip Isaac Mogase was on Wednesday removed from his position by the party’s new leadership. Briefing reporters after the party’s caucus met at Parliament, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said Mogase would be replaced by ANC MP Nathi Mthethwa.
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/ 26 November 2007
The African National Congress (ANC) parliamentary caucus has dismissed ”malicious” media reports alleging that President Thabo Mbeki used a caucus meeting last week to launch a veiled attack on ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma.
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/ 6 November 2007
The issue of floor-crossing should be resolved within months, says MP Vytjie Mentor, who chairs a parliamentary committee dealing with the matter. ”We don’t think that floor-crossing strengthens democracy. We have not seen empirical proof that it strengthens democracy,” she told a joint meeting with the home affairs committee on Tuesday.
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