131 A political fist-fight over who controls the mines has forced ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula to pick up the phone. Mbalula says he will contact EFF leader Julius Malema to defuse a…
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Khampepe commission seeks six-month extension to trace missing dockets and hear Zuma
138 The inquiry into who buried justice for apartheid’s victims has itself hit a wall – and now needs up to six more months to dig itself out. The Khampepe Commission of…
Meyer warns SA not special victim as US bullies canada too, says forget g20 snub
167 Veteran negotiator Roelf Meyer says South Africa should stop treating its bruising fight with Washington as a unique humiliation and stop obsessing over America’s threatened boycott of the G20 Leaders’ Summit…
Parliament shuts down DSAC meeting as top leaders stay away
153 Parliament’s oversight meeting on the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture collapsed on Tuesday, 27 October after the department’s top leadership failed to show up to answer for a damning set…
NUMSA faction moves to remove Irvin Jim, citing luxury cars, property and contempt of court
201 South Africa’s biggest trade union is in open revolt. A rebel faction of its Central Committee says it has moved against General Secretary Irvin Jim, accusing him of violating the constitution,…
How Prime Evil built Vlakplaas’s askari killing machine to hunt MK comrades
166 For 20 years in C-Max, Eugene de Kock says he waited for someone to ask him who gave the orders. At the Khampepe Commission this week, he finally started naming how…
Groenewald to lodge JSC complaint over two minute ruling.
232 Correctional Services Minister Pieter Groenewald plans to lodge a complaint with the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) against a judge who allegedly decided a case involving his department in two minutes. His…
De Kock says Nel and Ackerman buried apartheid murder cases
175 Apartheid’s most notorious killer says he knows everything about who gave the orders – and claims the country’s top prosecutors deliberately refused to hear it. Former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock,…
Brothers Face Off in Cape Town Ward 56 Election
210 Cape Town’s Ward 56 is set for an unusual election battle, with two brothers representing rival political parties competing for the same council seat. According to News24, Patriotic Alliance councillor Cheslyn…
AG: DCS never disputed submitting falsified documents
191 The Auditor-General says the Department of Correctional Services never denied that it handed auditors falsified documents, even while it fought the disclaimer. “The department has not in any of its submissions…