192 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…
Category: Politics
R18m becomes R34m: Defence fails to explain KZN deployment bill
144 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
151 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
169 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
173 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
184 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
149 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…
DSAC admits Parliament invite got stuck in McKenzie’s office
171 Parliament’s invitation to the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture to account for its audit findings sat in Minister Gayton McKenzie’s office for more than three weeks before it reached the…
DA’s Kingsol Chabalala commits to fix Emfuleni’s sewage crisis, clean up finances
172 DA mayoral candidate for Emfuleni Local Municipality, Kingsol Chabalala, has put fixing basic services and ending the sewage crisis at the centre of his campaign to unseat the ANC in one…
Former security boss Mostert defends De Klerk, rubbishes De Kock claim
209 The last secretary of the former Secretariat of the State Security Council SSC, Johan Mostert, has come out in defence of former president FW de Klerk, denying claims by apartheid death…