150 Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan has vowed to approach the courts urgently to stop KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi from being appointed as the next national head of the Hawks. O’Sullivan…
Category: Politics
Board burns millions as ETDP SETA runs headless with no CEO, no COO
134 The ETDP SETA has no CEO. It has no COO. Yet its board continues to sit, spend and approve millions while the entity slides into a full-blown governance crisis flagged by…
Rare parliamentary unity as MPs condemn March and March
122 Political parties represented on Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence united on Friday, 30 October 2026 in condemning March and March and the xenophobic violence in KwaZulu-Natal, even as they differed…
‘We don’t have all the tools’: SANDF general grilled over KZN troops
149 The general overseeing the South African National Defence Force’s KwaZulu-Natal deployment has admitted that the military does not have all the equipment it needs. He also could not give Parliament a…
R18m becomes R34m: Defence fails to explain KZN deployment bill
118 The Defence department could not explain to Parliament how the cost of sending 510 soldiers to KwaZulu-Natal jumped from R18.5 million to R34 million on the morning of the briefing. Lieutenant…
Sibonelo Nomvalo breaks down over alleged plots to remove him
129 Former uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party secretary-general Sibonelo Nomvalo broke down while recounting what he described as a series of fabricated intelligence reports aimed at removing him from his position, revealing that…
McKenzie took four months to send CCIFSA rot to SIU
130 Not a single cent of the R51.8 million CCIFSA scandal has been recovered. And Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie only sent the matter to the Special Investigating Unit (SIU)…
MK Party demands answers from IEC over rejected candidate-list changes
143 The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party has demanded a detailed explanation from the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) after its request to amend candidate lists ahead of the 4 November local…
Prisoners wait up to eight years for a verdict
156 Remand detainees go to court once or twice a month but still wait five to eight years to be sentenced or freed. This was revealed by the Auditor-General in Parliament on…
South Africa’s anti-corruption reforms stagnate as FATF grey-list review looms
129 South Africa risks being pushed back onto the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list because its anti-corruption reforms have stalled, Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) has warned in a stern…