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Conduit: Suspended Tshwane Metropolitan Police Department (TMPD) deputy chief Umashi Dhlamini denied
personally assisting Ngaphesheya.

Tshwane Metro tender favouritism and unpaid security services

TMPD deputy chief Dhlamini denied favouring a security company owned by Sergeant Fannie Nkosi’s brother Bheki Nkosi

President Cyril Ramaphosa has placed the National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola on precautionary suspension and appointed Lieutenant General Puleng Dimpane as acting national police commissioner. (GCIS)

Ramaphosa suspends police commissioner Masemola pending the outcome of State vs Matlala and 15 others

Lieutenant General Puleng Dimpane was appointed as acting national police commissioner

Testimony: TMPD Chief Yolanda Faro has told the commission she stopped an R800 million tender in March 2025. Photo: Supplied

How Tshwane was looted via tenders 

Senior officials told the Madlanga commission that more than R2bn was siphoned through security deals meant to protect metro police

Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) Chief Yolanda Faro testifying at the Madlanga Commission.

Tshwane metro chief halted irregular R800 million security tender

Yolanda Faro says that the testimony of corruption revealed at the Madlanga Commission concerning corruption in her department is alarming

Former Telkom workers’ battle with outsourcing firms rages on

A labour appeals court order reinstated the employees to their posts after they were outsourced to WNS eight years ago

The Federation of Governing Bodies of South African Schools (Fedsas), has hit out at the ban. (File photo/MG)

South African SMEs should gear up for the new normal

A volatile business environment means that smart SMEs must position themselves to change as required.

After an inquiry in February 2021 about the report, the M&G finally gained access this week to a 42-page executive summary of the forensic investigation “into the 1 Military Hospital repair and maintenance programme”.
Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Squabbles put army hospital in ICU

1 Military Hospital is in a serious state of disrepair and the report of a forensic investigation into who is to blame for the mess remains under wraps

Khaya Sithole: Taken for a ride by the gig economy

Better laws can stop companies such as Uber from riding roughshod over people who do work for them but are denied employment benefits

The pensioner who ‘fronted’ for R10m of a family’s capture of SAPS

An old-age grant recipient was allegedly paid just R5 000 a month to be a director of one of the Chetty-owned companies

(John McCann/M&G)

R100-million: How one family captured the police

The family-run syndicate behind the alleged scam may have looted even more — as much as R1-billion

Workers demand that they be made permanent employees of provincial health departments — with higher salaries, as well as medical aid and pension benefits — instead of being outsourced to nonprofits organisations that pay them stipend.

Why Covid likely won’t change the plight of community health workers

In the absence of action from the health department, South Africa’s community health workers are once again having to fight for their rights, with a nationwide strike planned…

When the Fees Must Fall movement erupted in October 2015, the discontent was not just about the fees. It was the threat of being excluded and obtaining the key that would lead to employment
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What comes after nationalism in Africa? A luta continua

There are a number of cases in the past decade where Africans have managed to push the conversation beyond liberal reforms as a political goal or did not spent all their energies…