Corruption
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedinThe Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg has ordered Brian Shivambu, the brother of the EFF’s Floyd Shivambu, to pay R1.78m to VBS Mutual Bank’s liquidators. According to the Mail & Guardian, the order relates to an application Anoosh Rooplal, the liquidator of the now defunct mutual bank, lodged as part…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedin 26 Mar 15:13 ShareIcon The court adjourns for the day and will resume tomorrow at 09:00. 26 Mar 15:12 ShareIcon 26 Mar 15:12 ShareIcon Baba asks Mdakane if she can remember what happened after Zuma’s car had struck the taxi. Mdakane says it was a long time ago,…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedin The KZN office of the auditor-general has stopped auditing the books of the eThekwini Metro and has recalled all its staff from the council after allegedly receiving a series of death threats, the provincial Department of Cooperative Governance…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedinFormer ANC MP and arms deal activist Andrew Feinstein has said ahead of the start of former president Jacob Zuma’s corruption trial that there is “overwhelming evidence” of his guilt. “The reality is that Jacob Zuma should find himself in jail,” Feinstein told AFP ahead of Zuma’s court appearance…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedinFormer president Jacob Zuma’s legal team is expected to file an application to the KwaZulu-Natal High Court on Tuesday as it seeks a review of National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams’ decision that there was no reason for him not to stand trial. The 16 charges relate to…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedin Statistics compiled by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) were presented in the sentencing proceedings in the case against former Western Cape police commissioner Arno Lamoer and three others at the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday. IPID’s head of investigations Matthew Sesoko was asked to present the…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedinJohannesburg – The South African Council of Churches has threatened to act against Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane if she fails to explain her call for the terms of reference for the state capture inquiry to be expanded beyond the remedial action in the State of Capture report. In a…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedinPietermaritzburg – As tensions between ANC factions in the Moses Mabhida region escalate to the point where there are fears that blood may be shed, rival groups have resorted to hiring armed guards for protection at heated branch meetings. The meetings, called branch general meetings (BGMs), are being called…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedin Pretoria – Private forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan says he will not back down until certain “corrupt” people are behind bars. “We are dealing with criminals – criminals with badges and criminals with gowns. They are going to go to prison for what they did. I will not stop,”…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedin Pretoria – Residents from Pretoria have been warned to brace themselves for the National Taxi Alliance (NTA) march, to the Department of Transport and the Union Buildings, on Wednesday. Senior superintendent Isaac Mahamba of the Tshwane Metropolitan Police Department (TMPD) said affected road users would have to make…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedin Johannesburg – President Jacob Zuma’s birthday parties in 2015 and 2016 were sponsored by controversial facilities management group Bosasa. Bosasa, led by CEO Gavin Watson, was found to have bribed prisons officials for tenders by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and is currently under criminal investigation by the…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedin Vryheid – A member of the Vryheid community policing forum says the attack on Bokkie Potgieter, 73, who died after allegedly being repeatedly hit with a panga on Monday, was so brutal that his face was left unrecognisable. The man who killed him was also apparently beaten by…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedin Cape Town – Activists from #UnitedBehind are on Wednesday expected to march from Central Methodist Mission in Greenmarket Square in Cape Town to an undisclosed location to demand the arrest of President Jacob Zuma. An organiser with the movement, Bruce Baigrie, said the march was expected to begin…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedin Durban – A 73-year-old man has been hacked to death on a farm in Vryheid, northern KwaZulu-Natal as the #BlackMonday protest against farm murders continues around the country. Police spokesperson Captain Nqobile Gwala told News24 that the suspect also died when he crashed the deceased’s Ford Bantam bakkie…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedinThe SA Council of Churches was neither informed of nor invited to the recent formation of the National Interfaith Leaders Council (NILC), it said on Wednesday. “Although we do not presume that our exclusion was malicious, but the SACC is disappointed at not having been offered the courtesy of…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedin Johannesburg – President Jacob Zuma has reshuffled his cabinet, adjusting six portfolios including the Ministry of Energy, in a move analysts say is linked to a contentious nuclear energy deal with Russia. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Presidency said it had moved David Mahlobo, former minister of…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedin Potchefstroom – A man believed to be in his 70s was found dead on Friday night in an alleged farm attack, on a plot outside of Potchefstroom.ER24 spokesperson, Russel Meiring, said paramedics had arrived on the scene and found an elderly man lying outside. Local security forces were already on…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedinThe BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) is a framework for the provision of support through liquidity and precautionary instruments in response to actual or potential short-term balance of payments pressures. It was established in 2015 by the BRICS countries Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The legal basis…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedin 06 July, 02:48 PMSanef has successfully made a case at the Johannesburg High Court for urgency in the BLF matter, with judgement being handed down on Friday. Black First Land First (BLF) leader Andile Mngxitama responds outside court. Sanef and a group of respective journalists and editors have…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedin Johannesburg – Journalists and editors have alleged that their reporting on state capture and the Gupta family is the real reason why they are being targeted by Black First, Land First. This emerged in several affidavits by some of the 11 journalists who BLF had previously alleged were…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedinThe ANC has marginalised the South African Council of Churches in favour of Pastor Ray McCauley’s National Interfaith Leaders’ Council because it refuses to cosy up to the ANC, SACC leaders said this week. Two SACC sources told the Mail & Guardian that the council felt it was being…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedin South Africa’s top religious leaders who include well-known former anti-apartheid church activists, have called on President Jacob Zuma to “do the honourable thing” and resign. In a joint statement, the leaders said Zuma has lost all moral legitimacy to govern and therefore should do the honourable thing and…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedin Johannesburg – The South African Council of Churches (SACC) will no longer sit on the sidelines while society suffers, its senior Vice President Reverend Frank Chikane told journalists on Saturday. “Today it’s a beginning of a new thing,” Chikane said at the SACC’s June 16 commemoration in Orlando…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedin Johannesburg – The South African Council of Churches has called for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) into corruption following the release of the State Capture report on Wednesday. “The Gupta chapter is only one part of the larger tapestry of possible corruption and improper influence, and that…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedin Soweto – The South African Council of Churches has warned that the country risks collapsing if the ANC does not act on the “systematic siphoning of state assets pivoted around President Jacob Zuma”. “The country is going to collapse. It is difficult to rebuild once you go into…
Share this…EmailPrintTwitterLinkedin Pretoria – The African National Congress might not have placed the South African Council of Churches (SACC) report into state capture on their agenda, but it can still be used in debates during its national executive committee (NEC) says ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe. He was speaking on the…
