204 South Africa has closed the chapter on one-party government for good. That was the stark message from Roelf Meyer, South Africa’s new ambassador to Washington, as he launched his political memoir…
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Ramaphosa ally Bejani Chauke hauled before Madlanga Commission over taxi boss chats
218 President Cyril Ramaphosa’s inner circle has been dragged into the Madlanga Commission’s explosive probe. His close confidante and ANC National Executive Committee member Bejani Chauke has been hauled to explain his…
Mbalula enters malema and Mysol cat fight as row over mines turns personal
144 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…
Khampepe commission seeks six-month extension to trace missing dockets and hear Zuma
152 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
174 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
163 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
220 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
174 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.
246 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
181 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,…