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Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. (Photo by Felix Dlangamandla/Daily Maverick/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
ARTICLE

We won’t obey your timetable, NPA tells Mapisa-Nqakula in graft arrest saga

The state said the speaker was not above the law and that the court could not block her arrest on alleged R4.5 million corruption

  • Khaya Koko
4 min read
Former Transnet board member Iqbal Sharma appears at the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court on June 07, 2021 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. It is reported that the suspects were arrested in connection with the failed R288 million Estina dairy project. (Photo by Gallo Images/Volksblad/Mlungusi Louw)
ARTI GUPTA

Gupta associate Sharma denied bail in Free State fraud case

The magistrate ruled that bail was not an option because he was a flight risk even though he had travelled to the UAE after being implicated in the Zondo commission

  • Des Erasmus
5 min read
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CHETTY FAMILY

Vodacom swindled out of more than R24m worth of iPhones

A former employee allegedly ran an intricate scam to steal 8700 phones from the cellular giant

  • Khaya Koko
4 min read
The South African Police Union (Sapu) has called on national police commissioner General Khehla Sitole to act decisively after his deputy, Lieutenant General Bonang Mgwenya, was arrested in connection with the R191-million “blue-lights tender”.
BLUE LIGHTS TENDER

Union calls on top cop to act ‘swiftly’ against his deputy in R191m ‘blue-lights’ fraud case

Deputy police commissioner Bonanga Mgwenya allegedly received gifts, including payments towards her BMW X5, from the firm that won a lucrative police contract

  • Khaya Koko
3 min read
Double-registration has effectively rendered stateless tens of thousands of Kenyan citizens who are ethnically Somali
BIOMETRIC DATA

‘In Kenya, you cannot go anywhere without an ID. I don’t have one’

Double-registration has effectively rendered stateless tens of thousands of Kenyan citizens who are ethnically Somali

  • Keren Weitzberg
7 min read
Children who are exposed to lead — found in certain paints and batteries — can face issues ranging from heart problems to violent behaviour as they grow up (Delwyn Verasamy)
ACCESS TO BASIC EDUCATION

Children without documentation are denied their basic rights

Undocumented children are denied their right to education, and access to government school nutrition support

  • Dr Alison Misselhorn
4 min read