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Eastern Cape MEC could face the chop under stand-aside rules

Charges against health MEC Sindiswa Gomba over the Nelson Mandela funeral scandal have been reinstated – leading to questions about her political future after this weekend’s ANC…

KZN education officials suspended for mismanagement of sanitary-pads project

Unions have welcomed the suspension of three senior officials in KZN’s department of education for mismanagement of a sanitary-pads distribution project

By the government’s own figures

Fight the state’s systemic rot systematically

The narrow focus on Nkandla misses the point of the rot that lies at the heart of the ANC’s patronage engine, writes Philip Machanick.

Trade official quits despite vindication

Despite being cleared, bigwigs at the trade department’s regulator continue to feel the heat.

EU wants its R10m returned

An audit of the SAHRC finds ‘certain funds cannot be satisfactorily accounted for’, writes Mmanaledi Mataboge.

ANC suspends six staff members

Six managers in the parliamentary office of the ANC have been suspended over allegations that they misappropriated money and created fictitious posts.

‘No one in the ANC is permanent’

The ANC’s national working committee is believed to have recommended the removal of Balindlela for her lack of leadership in the province.