211 On Monday, the United States will announce whether South Africa will keep its duty-free access to the world’s largest market under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) for 2027. Trade,…
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Steyn City case haunts Pule Mabe as R27m Tuk-Tuk mansion and porsche stay frozen
229 Two years after the Special Tribunal locked down his Steyn City mansion and his Porsche, former ANC national spokesperson Pule Mabe is learning that luxury bought with litigation does not move….
‘I’m not a praise singer’: MPs clash over army deployment
216 A row broke out in Parliament’s defence committee on Friday after an ANC MP said MPs could not question President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to send soldiers into KwaZulu-Natal. ANC MP Tshilidzi…
DSAC admits paying USIBA R1.5m with no invoices.
182 The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture has admitted it handed CCIFSA another R1.5 million for the USIBA awards without a single invoice in hand. CCIFSA’s report on the first R10…
Water woes, jobs and party loyalty shape voters’ views ahead of elections
195 As political parties ramp up campaigns ahead of Wednesday’s local government elections, voters in different parts of Hammanskraal, where service delivery has collapsed, are weighing basic service failures, jobs and long-held…
DSAC has no idea what CCIFSA’s 2019 conference cost
191 The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture ran the process that led to CCIFSA’s 2019 elective conference in Mpumalanga. Now it cannot say how much it spent. The money was never…
Electoral Court dismisses DA challenge to party lists
193 The Electoral Court has dismissed the DA’s legal challenge against ActionSA, the EFF, GOOD Party and the MK Party over their submission of single-name proportional representation (PR) candidate lists for the…
Mashaba to question Soweto housing allocations
190 ActionSA Johannesburg mayoral candidate Herman Mashaba will on Saturday ,31 October visit Soweto to engage residents who have been waiting for housing allocations following the recent handover of 300 housing units…
Ex-MK Party SG claims millions transferred to entity of Dudu Myeni’s son
160 Former uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party secretary-general Sibonelo Nomvalo has alleged that at least R3 million was transferred monthly from the party’s organisational accounts into business bank accounts allegedly belonging to a…
O’Sullivan threatens legal action over Mkhwanazi appointment
196 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…