The ANC National Chairperson Gwede Mantashe said the party’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa is “rich” and would not be tempted to steal state resources.Mantashe was speaking at the wreath-laying ceremony honoring struggle icon OR Tambo on Friday. “I have serious questions about the intellect of senior ANC figures. Are these people basically morons? Are they people with low..
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Admission That ANC And Zuma Were Corrupt? Ramaphosa Is Rich, Won’t be tempted to steal: Mantashe
Top Cop Told To Give Up R500m Fraud Dockets
Black Friday For De Lille, Top Officials
Sassa wants CPS for 6 more months
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The invalid Cash Payment Services (CPS) contract may be extended for a further six months if the South African Social Security Agency’s (Sassa) gets its way — yet the Constitutional Court ruled that the contract is to end on March 31. The extension is contained in the latest Sassa report to the Constitutional Court, filed less..
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UDM wants urgent explanation of free higher education
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The UDM wants President Jacob Zuma and his Cabinet to urgently spell out his plan for free higher education to avoid a “commotion” at registration. “One can argue that President Zuma’s announcement of free tertiary education for students who can’t afford it, is a populist Hail Mary pass; but the United Democratic Movement (UDM) believes..
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Mogoeng’s ‘very serious’ attack on majority judgment difficult to comprehend
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When does a court overreach and thus intrude into a domain exclusively reserved for the executive or the legislature? In an unusually harsh minority judgment, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng was clear that the majority of the Constitutional Court had done just that in ordering Parliament to introduce a mechanism to deal with the possible impeachment..
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Records Show They Splashed R4.5 Million: How The Guptas Bought Zuma’s Wife A House
Who’s The Biggest Thief: Atul Gupta Or Markus Jooste? Errol Horwitz Sizes Up Steinhoff Spoils
ConCourt: Parliament has failed to hold Zuma to account
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The Constitutional Court has ruled that the National Assembly failed to put in place mechanisms to hold President Zuma accountable. The EFF, Cope and the UDM asked the highest court to compel Parliament to hold the president to account after its Nkandla judgement. Judge Chris Jafta, reading the orders, said the National Assembly failed to..
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Malema vs Mbalula: Twitter spat breaks out over minister’s whereabouts
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A Twitter spat between EFF leader Julius Malema and Police Minister Fikile Mbalula over his holiday whereabouts took full flight on Wednesday – with Malema warning Mbalula that it would all end in tears. “Now you are talking rubbish and when I start you will be crying like a baby,” Malema tweeted in response to..
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High Court Questions Mokgatle Credibility
#GuptaNEC Meeting In Dubai – South African Media Absent
The ruling party moves for land, and the Reserve Bank
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The ANC will seek to amend the constitution of the country to allow for expropriation of land without compensation and will also nationalise the South African Reserve Bank, the party announced on Wednesday night. The contentious announcement was made just before the close of its 54th national conference on Wednesday night. The sectoral commission on..
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Zuma: Ramaphosa can not be my co-President
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Even as the high court in Pretoria was delivering a series of nasty blows to President Jacob Zuma in a judgment on Wednesday, his legal team filed an application to appeal his most immediate prior loss: the stripping of his power to appoint the head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). On Friday the court..
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South Africa’s race relations laid bare in Steinhoff scandal
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South Africans are fond of debating whether public or private sector failings are the bigger problem. It does not take too long to realise that they are really talking about race. This is evident as the country faces an unusual scandal – one involving a private company called Steinhoff. The multinational furniture company is in..
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