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A Transnet marshall opens the gate platform for the South African luxury Blue Train lounge ahead of a press train journey on September 8, 2015 in Pretoria. South Africa transport giant Transnet began on September 8, a partnership with Africa’s largest tourism, leisure and gaming group Sun International. Transnet chose Sun International as the winning bidder to develop and implement a marketing strategy for the Blue Train. AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA (Photo by GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / AFP)
BLUE TRAIN

The Blue Train’s great Gupta voyage – and the whistleblower who paid for it

In 2016, Prinsloo sounded the alarm about the hazardous condition of the Blue Train and free trips being offered to friends of Transnet executives, including the Gupta family and…

  • Melody Emmett
8 min read
Face of the party: ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa visited Hanover Park in Cape Town last year. The party is not putting up a premier candidate to campaign in the Western Cape. (David Harrison/M&G)
ANC

ANC is playing it safe in the Western Cape

The ANC’s Western Cape list has not yet been made public, but it is understood that veteran provincial legislator Cameron Dugmore tops the list

  • Lester Kiewit
4 min read
Tom Thabane. (Reuters)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Editorial: Root out sexual abuse at work

Too many South African women have, at some point, been forced to feel fear in their workplace because of sexual predation and patriarchy

  • Editorial
2 min read
In a statement released on Saturday, Fransman said he would be engaging his lawyers “to better understand the decision of the director of public prosecutions in Kimberley.” (Gallo)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

NPA to prosecute Marius Fransman over sexual harassment allegations

Marius Fransman is accused of sexually harassing his personal assistant during a work trip in 2016

  • Gemma Ritchie
2 min read
Hidden hand: Suspended Western Cape ANC chairperson Marius Fransman
ANC

Fransman a factor in Cape feud

The suspended ANC provincial chair’s name has come up in a dispute in the Dullah Omar region

  • Govan Whittles
3 min read
(Business Day/Gallo Images/Getty Images)
MARIUS FRANSMAN

Editorial: Keep fighting the good fight

We have to keep battling, because it all has to do with people in public office who are making important decisions about the nation’s future.

  • Editorial
2 min read
Marius Fransman
ANC

SAHRC in hot water again over report tampering allegations

Report on Marius Fransman’s anti-semitism has opposite conclusion in final version after former chairperson takes charge of draft.

  • Athandiwe Saba
5 min read
Seventy-two countries co-operated on the military front in the battle for Mosul but abdicated their duty to care for the wounded and sick. (Bulent Kilic/AFP)
ANC WESTERN CAPE

Western Cape ANC could have new chairperson by April 2017

Marius Fransman remains the party’s provincial leader as he is appealing his suspension.

  • Thulani Gqirana
2 min read
Marius Fransman may be voted out as the ANC provincial chairperson.
MARIUS FRANSMAN

Marius Fransman resigns from Western Cape legislature

Fransman confirmed to News24 that he had resigned, and the ANC in the Western Cape has also confirmed the resignation.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
ANC WESTERN CAPE

The ANC says disciplinary procedures against Marius Fransman must be expedited

Not only that, the party now wants Fransman suspended pending the outcome of the disciplinary process.

  • Thulani Gqirana
2 min read
Seventy-two countries co-operated on the military front in the battle for Mosul but abdicated their duty to care for the wounded and sick. (Bulent Kilic/AFP)
JACOB ZUMA

ANC report on Marius Fransman says sexual harassment claims may be true

The organisation’s Western Cape chairperson withdraws case against party following internal investigation.

  • Glynnis Underhill
8 min read
ANC

I was invited to join Zuma on campaign trail – Marius Fransman

The embattled ANC Western Cape leader maintains he will campaign for the ANC and ‘doesn’t have to wait for an invite’.

  • News 24
3 min read
Marius Fransman may be voted out as the ANC provincial chairperson.
MARIUS FRANSMAN

Marius Fransman heads to court in bid to regain his position in the ANC

The embattled ANC Western Cape leader has approached the Western Cape High Court to intervene in his struggle to be reinstated.

  • Gemma Ritchie
2 min read
Marius Fransman may be voted out as the ANC provincial chairperson.
ANC

EFF ‘disgusted’ by decision to reinstate Marius Fransman as Western Cape ANC leader

​The EFF is ‘disgusted’ by the decision to reinstate Marius Fransman as party leader in the Western Cape, spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said.

  • News 24
3 min read
Marius Fransman may be voted out as the ANC provincial chairperson.
ANC WESTERN CAPE

‘I had to find out from the media’ says an outraged Marius Fransman about the ANC’s integrity committee findings

Marius Fransman is ‘appalled’ that an article in City Press has revealed the content of the findings of the ANC’s integrity committee.

  • Kaveel Singh
2 min read