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…
Category: Politics
DSAC admits Parliament invite got stuck in McKenzie’s office
172 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
176 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
212 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…
Cachalia moves to install Mkhwanazi as new Hawks boss
221 Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia has initiated a high-stakes process to appoint KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi as the new National Head of the Hawks, in a move set to…
Irvin Jim and Chirwa back at work after Numsa coup that stripped them of powers
163 NUMSA General Secretary Irvin Jim and President Andrew Chirwa are back at work after a dramatic attempt to strip them of their powers, with the union’s national office bearers declaring on…
Bester dismisses allegations he lobbied for Mbeki, ANC 37 prosecution
146 Retired SAPS Colonel Louis Bester has refuted claims that he pushed for former President Thabo Mbeki and other senior ANC leaders to be prosecuted for apartheid-era crimes, telling the Khampepe Commission…
IEC launches Results Operation Centre, promises system ready for local polls
166 The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) launched its national Results Operation Centre (ROC) on Wednesday, promising that its election dashboard is ready and that lessons from the 2024 glitch that…
AG warns of public safety risk as parole violators are released again
192 Offenders who absconded, failed to report or did not start community service were released on parole again by Correctional Services, the Auditor-General has told Parliament. Omphemetse Setebe, senior manager at the…
Meyer says single party rule is over in startling revelations from his new memoir
223 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…