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Malusi Gigaba charged over Transnet’s multibillion-rand corruption scandal
Gigaba appeared in court alongside four former Transnet executives, with prosecutors alleging he accepted undisclosed cash from the Gupta family while tender processes were…
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OBITUARY – Pravin Gordhan’s last warning: Democracy will not survive on its own
Gordhan’s last political act was to call for a ‘reset’ and a return to progressive politics
Department of Public Enterprises
State capture is often cited as the the reason for the department’s ongoing failures, but its problems run far deeper
Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years
In 1997, the warning bells were ringing that South Africa faced a dark future because Eskom would run out of capacity to supply a growing populace and an expanding economy
Zuma was the Guptas’ puppet, Zondo finds
The former president’s dismissal of Nhlahla Nene as finance minister for spurious reasons showed the veracity of the Gupta family’s claim that he would do anything for them
Unbanned are now the damned
The ruling party was unbanned 32 years ago on 2 February, but few ANC leaders can be feeling festive today
Lynne Brown went with the wishes of the Guptas — state capture report
The former minister was found to have played a strategic role in ensuring the ground was fertile for the Guptas to plunder Denel
Denel’s R1.2bn loss from R6bn profit highlights dire state of state-owned companies
The second state capture report shows how the arms company went from a R35-billion order book to begging the treasury for cash to stay afloat
Zondo report: Ruling party ‘slept on the job’ while state capture flourished
The ruling party was not only asleep on the job while former president Jacob Zuma colluded with state capture agents, but also lined its coffers with the proceeds of crime, the…
Ramaphosa confronted with too much evidence of his inaction
The president’s claim that he served as deputy president under Zuma as a way of stemming corruption came up short against prior evidence of witnesses who said he failed to help…
Playing ping-pong with Zondo, Ramaphosa concedes it came down to politics
The president told the Zondo commission the ruling party dropped the ball but struggled over two days on the witness stand to explain how it happened and how a repeat will be…
Ramaphosa distances himself from dubious Zuma-era appointments
President Cyril Ramaphosa acknowledged that cadre deployment was abused to further state capture, but played for time when Zondo pressed him for details as to how it happened
Brown resists Zondo’s notion that lack of oversight left SA in darkness
The deputy chief justice voices his exasperation that no solution to load-shedding is in sight, but former minister says oversight model is at fault
Zondo commission: Lynne Brown reportedly says ‘eish’ when told of Zuma’s alleged Eskom meddling
More allegations against Jacob Zuma put before the state capture commission, as the questions the former president will have to answer when he appears next week continue to stack…
Search for new ANC leaders in Western Cape a delicate matter
Two weeks ago, the ANC’s national executive committee disbanded the provincial executive committee for, among other reasons, in-fighting