The third instalment of the state capture report released by inquiry chairperson Raymond Zondo to the presidency has been met with mixed reaction and questions online. The report focuses on evidence related to the controversial catering…
A senior National Treasury official has described the conduct of the Guptas and other companies who looted public funds as “treason” and says the government will stop at nothing to ensure their imprisonment. National Treasury deputy…
Former minister Malusi Gigaba is determined to convince the state capture inquiry that he is an “honest man of integrity”, while his estranged wife Norma Gigaba is a “pathological liar”. This after Gigaba on Thursday night continued to…
DA leader John Steenhuisen says there is no good or bad faction in the ANC, but rather South Africans have been misled to believe there are two factions in the ANC and the “good” one is righting the wrongs of the “bad” one. Steenhuisen…
The state capture inquiry on Tuesday heard how controversial former SAA board chair Dudu Myeni knew intimate details about the inner workings of Eskom, and suggested solutions to fix the power utility despite not being in its employ. This…
Two former Eskom executives implicated in state capture at Eskom have reacted with anger and bemusement at the news that the electricity utility and the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) have initiated steps to recover the money. Eskom…
Evidence and testimony presented at the state capture inquiry can now be accessed by law-enforcement agencies. In a gazette published on Tuesday, President Cyril Ramaphosa effected the change, which potentially opens greater chances of…
Former police minister Nathi Nhleko testified before the state capture commission about alleged corruption at law enforcement agencies. He responded to allegations made by former Ipid boss, Robert McBride, that he (Nhleko) appointed…
Former home affairs minister Malusi Gigaba and former public enterprises minister Lynne Brown may have stepped down as MPs‚ but their woes over alleged corruption at Eskom are far from over. This comes after parliament’s public…
Former National Treasury communications chief Phumza Macanda said the institution was “in a state of mourning” after Jacob Zuma sacked Nhlanhla Nene as finance minister in 2015. Testifying before the state capture inquiry on Monday‚…
Elvis Ramosebudi‚ the man accused of plotting to assassinate politicians and prominent South Africans‚ will know his fate early in 2019. Ramosebudi is accused of heading two organisations‚ the Anti-State Capture Death Squad Alliance and…
Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan said he refused pressure from business associates of the Guptas‚ as well as from within the ANC‚ to intervene when banks shut down the accounts of the family’s businesses. Testifying before the…
Public Enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan has lashed out at his critics‚ including the EFF‚ saying to the Zondo commission of inquiry: “I am not a commodity for sale and I think the Guptas learnt that too”. Gordhan was speaking on the…
“The individual acts of corruption were known. Closer to 2014 and to the current period‚ a new phenomenon began to arise … many of these strange things were at their peak in 2015 in many institutions all at the same time‚” he said. Public…
