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ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula. (Photo: Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images)
ANC

DA demands full ANC deployment record, threatens Mbalula with contempt charge

The opposition party’s lawyers say it is ‘improbable’ that no records from 2013 to 2018 exist

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) speaks with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (R) during a special session entitled ‘Fair And Sustainable Future’ as part of G20 Leaders Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina
CYRI RAMAPHOSA

Ramaphosa’s South Africa and Turkey’s Erdogan find themselves in a dangerous place. Our currencies tell the story

It is time to fret over the rand and the damage its continued depreciation — particularly at this pace — will do to the country

  • Ron Derby
2 min read
President Cyril Ramaphosa (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
ANC

ANC NEC can only recall Ramaphosa after Integrity Committee report, says Kekana

The Paul Mashatile ally has established the mood for the NEC meeting on Monday, which is expected to discuss the party’s response to Phala Phala

  • Lizeka Tandwa
5 min read
President Cyril Ramaphosa on the campaign trail in October 2021. (Photo by Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

D Day for Ramaphosa as Phala Phala report goes to parliament

The findings of the three-member panel will be debated in the House on 6 December

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
Standard Bank has flagged a “stealthy” run at the ANC presidency by treasurer general Paul Mashatile.
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Standard Bank flags Mashatile’s ‘stealthy’ bid for ANC presidency

The bank says the ANC treasurer general has positioned himself as the perfect ‘compromise candidate’ for party president

  • Lizeka Tandwa
  • Paddy Harper
7 min read
‘Initially, the family meetings brought a feeling that we were all in this together and the president, along with his health minister, Zweli Mkhize, certainly had our support in attempts to save lives. But even at that moment when the lives of quite possibly millions of South Africans were at stake, corruption reared its ugly head once more in the very necessary spend that had to be unlocked to fight the pandemic.’ (GCIS)
ANC

South Africans rapidly losing faith in the state

The decades of tales of corruption and maladministration has brought us to a place where we simply cannot trust the state’s capacity to work

  • Editorial
4 min read
Too little protection: Slain corruption fighter Babita Deokaran was not safe after making disclosures relating to personal protective equipment fraud at the Gauteng health department. (Fani Mahuntsi/Gallo Images)
ANC

Protected Disclosures Act: How did whistleblowing law go wrong?

Current legislation mainly protects employees and those who make allegations anonymously and offers too little protection for witnesses

  • Luke Feltham
8 min read