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Former Bosasa chief operating officer, Angelo Agrizzi returns to the Zondo commission on Thursday. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AFRICAN GLOBAL GROUP

Agrizzi set to make Zondo commission return

Head of the commission’s legal team announces former Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi will testify this week

  • Jeanette Chabalala
2 min read
Former president Jacob Zuma. (Reuters)
ARNO LAMOER

Zuma stay of prosecution application must be dismissed, NPA argues

The prosecuting authority believes there is a strong case against the former president

  • Jeanette Chabalala
4 min read
Former deputy national director of public prosecutions, Nomgcobo Jiba. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
JEANETTE CHABALALA

Jiba did not lie about her qualifications or mislead NPA — lawyers

President Cyril Ramaphosa suspended the deputy director of public prosecutions in October 2018, pending the outcome of the Mokgoro inquiry

  • Jeanette Chabalala
2 min read
Evidence leader, advocate Vincent Maleka, SC, raised some concerns with Van Rooyen’s application. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
DES VAN ROOYEN

Van Rooyen applies to cross-examine Fuzile

Van Rooyen has also indicated his interest in testifying before the commission

  • Jeanette Chabalala
2 min read
The court found that Mohlaloga and his co-accused defrauded the Land Bank of about R6m when he was chairperson of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Agriculture. (Thobeka Zazi Ndabula/Business Day)
FRAUD

Icasa boss sentenced to 20 years in prison for fraud, money laundering

Rubben Mohlaloga was sentenced on Thursday at the Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crimes Court.

  • Jeanette Chabalala
2 min read
Former president Jacob Zuma. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

‘Dismiss DA case on basis of undue delay’ – Zuma’s lawyers argue

Both the DA and EFF have brought applications to the high court asking it to set aside the decisions made by the state attorney

  • Jeanette Chabalala
3 min read
In a statement issued on Tuesday, Hlongwa said he requested the party “to relieve me from the position and duties of the chief whip”. (Felix Dlangamandla/Gallo Images)
ANC GAUTENG

Brian Hlongwa steps down as ANC chief whip in Gauteng legislature

Hlongwa was implicated in a report by the SIU into corrupt activities to the tune of R1.2-billion during his tenure as health MEC

  • Jeanette Chabalala
1 min read
Phumla Williams during her testimony before the state capture commission. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
FAITH MUTHAMBI

Corruption case opened against GCIS’ Phumla Williams

​The former head of government communications, Donald Liphoko, has opened a corruption case against the agency’s acting chief executive

  • Jeanette Chabalala
3 min read
Public protector’s counsel said nothing in the law prohibited her from filing another rescission application. (Gallo)
ACE MAGASHULE

Vrede: Court hears Public Protector ‘acted incompetently’

Casac argues the report did not include findings relating to the "high-level politicians that played a central role in the project"

  • Jeanette Chabalala
3 min read
The opposition protest aims to support Guaido’s bid to set up a transitional government ahead of new elections. (Reuters)
BATHABILE DLAMINI

DA ‘confident of success’ in challenging Gigaba, Dlamini reappointments

DA leader Mmusi Maimane believes the president’s decision to reappoint Gigaba and Dlamini is irrational and unconstitutional

  • Jeanette Chabalala
3 min read
“This was a manufactured type of evidence in this case. I’m really not happy that it was provisionally withdrawn, because it is still hanging at the end of the day,” Sibiya said. (Paul Botes/M&G)
ANWA DRAMAT

Sibiya disappointed in NPA after charges provisionally withdrawn

The State provisionally withdrew charges against Sibiya and former Hawks head Anwa Dramat in the Pretoria high court on Monday morning.

  • Jeanette Chabalala
2 min read
Wille Mathebula is expected to speak on government procurement processes. (Twitter)
JACOB ZUMA

State capture inquiry: First witness to testify on Day 2

Treasury’s chief procurement officer Willie Ndleleni Mathebula will be the first witness to testify at the inquiry

  • Mahlatse Mahlase
  • Jeanette Chabalala
2 min read
Police and SPCA officials discovered more than 50 dead pigs with the remaining 85 cannibalising on rotten carcasses on Thandi Modise’s farm near Potchefstroom.
AFRIFORUM

AfriForum to privately prosecute Thandi Modise over animal cruelty

In 2015, a protracted legal action was initiated after it emerged that animals had been starving on the multimillion-rand farm of Modise in 2014.

  • Jeanette Chabalala
2 min read
Nomgcobo Jiba (above) and Lawrence Mrwebi were fired by the president following an inquiry outcome. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
GCB

Decision to appeal Jiba ruling not racist — General Council of the Bar

GCB statement follows comments made by the Advocates for Transformation, which said it was "concerned about the intolerable inconsistency" of the Bar

  • Jeanette Chabalala
5 min read
In 2019, former Bosasa chief operating officer Angelo Agrizzi testified about how his boss, Watson, had referred to Nomgcobo Jiba, then the acting national director of public prosecutions, as “The Snake”
JEANETTE CHABALALA

Deputy NPA boss Jiba to fight leave to appeal application

The General Council of the Bar of South Africa is applying for leave to appeal a ruling that paved the way for Nomgcobo Jiba’s return

  • Jeanette Chabalala
4 min read