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The MultiChoice Group’s active customers for all its regions, including South Africa, dropped from 17.3 million to 15.7 million over the year.
ANN7

ANN7 sacrificed to save MultiChoice ‘mistake-men’

MultiChoice was equally clear about the consequences of its ‘mistake’ — when ANN7’s contract ends in August, it will be dropped from DStv

  • Phillip De Wet
3 min read
Bathabile Dlamini would not tell the inquiry whether paying 17-million grants was a critical part of her job.
BATHABILE DLAMINI

Combative, evasive Dlamini steers herself towards disaster

Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini this week sought a definition of “meeting” before she could confirm that she had one

  • Phillip De Wet
4 min read
Guess who’s back: Bathabile Dlamini is back in public office. She’s the new chairperson of the Social Housing Regulatory Authority interim board. (Paul Botes/M&G)
BATHABILE DLAMINI

Dlamini’s direct inquisition ends, but more in store

During questioning, Bathabile Dlamini contradicted herself, refused to admit simple facts, and failed to answer many crucial questions

  • Phillip De Wet
2 min read
Former mineral resources minister Mosebenzi Zwane is one of the accused in the Estina fraud and corruption trial.
GUPTA FAMILY

Dairy farm puts Guptas directly in firing line

The stench of rotting cow carcasses will pale in comparison to the stink the Estina probe will cause

  • Phillip De Wet
5 min read
Instead
BODYGUARDS

In danger or not, all mayors may have bodyguards

Previously councils had to ask the South African Police Service for a threat and risk analysis before they were allowed to pay for mayoral bodyguards.

  • Phillip De Wet
2 min read
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane.
ABSA

Mkhwebane: Final Absa report isn’t final, so can’t be challenged

In June this year, Mkhwebane put her signature to a report that seemed to suggest that the government must recover R1.125-billion from Absa.

  • Phillip De Wet
3 min read
Former Eskom chief executive, Brian Molefe.
BRIAN MOLEFE

Judges make short shrift of Molefe’s did, didn’t, did …

Brian Molefe now contends he never left Eskom and so, legally, he should be allowed to return to the office and position that is rightfully his

  • Phillip De Wet
4 min read
Brian Molefe was one of the key architects of the capture and looting of the state-owned entity.
BRIAN MOLEFE

Brian Molefe: I resigned and retired at the same time

Army officer and former MP Brian Molefe on Wednesday argued that he remains the CEO of Eskom because he resigned and retired at the same time.

  • Phillip De Wet
2 min read
The cheap and legal delivery of most grants can be achieved by simply using banks and ATMs.
CASH PAYMASTER SERVICES

Social grants crisis looms in 2018, experts warn ConCourt

There is a danger that Sassa, under pressure from political principals, will make hasty decisions, with consequences that could be expensive.

  • Phillip De Wet
4 min read
This normalisation of corruption and public service failure means that media coverage doesn’t result in actual accountability.
JOHAN RETIEF

Ombud okays media naming high-profile, probable gender-harm perpetrators

Publications can now identify a person alleged to have done such harm, but defamation rules still apply

  • Phillip De Wet
3 min read
Mkhwebane: I must indicate
ABSA

Reserve Bank guns for Mkhwebane and her CIEX delay attempt

​Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane faces a bruising day in court on Friday, if papers from the Reserve Bank are anything to go by.

  • Phillip De Wet
3 min read
Where have almost two dozen Life Esidimeni patients gone?
A RE AGENG

Three Gauteng departments in hot water as Life Esidimeni web gets ever more tangled

A high court ruling finds links between a missing R5m for drug rehab and the neglected welfare of the province’s most vulnerable people

  • Phillip De Wet
5 min read
On Tuesday
BUSISIWE MKHWEBANE

Zuma abandons state capture plan in last-minute court chaos

The president had originally suggested the matter be sent back to Thuli Madonsela’s successor for further investigation.

  • Phillip De Wet
3 min read
President Jacob Zuma has argued that then public protector Thuli Madonsela could not lawfully have ordered him to set up a commission of inquiry and that he can not be “dictated” to on how such a commission should be established.
PHILLIP DE WET

Opposition parties detail tough state capture court order for Zuma

Opposition political parties on Wednesday morning asked the high court in Pretoria to give the president two weeks to set up a commission of inquiry.

  • Phillip De Wet
3 min read
Economic Freedom Fighters members flooded the streets ahead of Zuma’s court appearance relating to the non-security upgrades on his Nkandla home.
JACOB ZUMA

Nkandla: Did Zuma flout the Constitution or make a mistake?

Jacob Zuma suddenly seemed to abandon the last shreds of his defence during Constitutional Court proceedings this week.

  • Phillip De Wet
7 min read