The Constitutional Court on Thursday declined to hold social grants minister Bathabile Dlamini personally liable for legal costs in the social grants fiasco – for now. Instead it ordered a legal inquisition of sorts centred on whether she had misled the court, a process that could still force her to pay legal costs out of..
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Concourt asks for a ‘bad faith’ enquiry on Dlamini and social grants.
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Survé, Guptas Imitate Ethos, Practices Of Apartheid Newspapers
Sassa’s R2bn funeral insurance rip-off
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Yet again we’ve been reminded of just how awkward a liability social development minister Bathabile Dlamini is for her department as it battles to resolve the overwhelming difficulties with social grant distribution. Horror at the prospect of the department and the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) managing “26A deductions” — third-party deductions from social grants..
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REPORT – Motsoeneng found guilty in SABC internal disciplinary hearing!!
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Former SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng has been found guilty in an internal disciplinary hearing, a reliable source close to the hearings shared this news. Motsoeneng faced charges of bringing the SABC into disrepute and causing irreparable damage to his employer. The charges related to his four-hour long press briefing on April 19, where..
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Evil Mastermind Victoria Geoghegan: How Does She Sleep At Night? #GuptaLeaks
Nothing Seems Sacred Anymore As R1bn Drought Relief Fund Joins Captured List – Herbst
Zuma please wake up and smell the stench you are causing.
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Jacob Zuma has again escaped the axe after the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) decided to retain him as the country’s number one citizen. But this decision cannot be interpreted as a victory for the embattled ANC president. The second motion by his comrades in less than six months to force him to step down..
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Why is Bathabile Dlamini licking a cup in parliament?
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Whatever the social development minister is drinking must have been so good she could not let a single drop go to waste. A video of Social Development Minister and ANC Women’s League leader Bathabile Dlamini in parliament has emerged that once again triggers questions about her sobriety. In the video, the minister can be seen..
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Urgent review of death penalty for South-Africa proposed at National Assembly
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On Thursday, DA MP Zak Mbhele proposed in the National Assembly the urgent need to review death penalty following the recent spate of brutal killings of women in the country. Death Penalty Review: Death sentences are seen as cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual. New..
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SA On the fast track to a dictatorship: A climate of fear is being deliberately fostered by the regime
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MK vets are displaying pure intimidation, paving the road towards tyranny. It may have only been a small group of protesters; they may have been carrying no weapons and they may not have acted violently – but they represent a frightening future for this country. The uniformed Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) veterans who gathered outside the..
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Putin, Mugabe Or Khrushchev…Which One Will Zuma Pull?
ANC now ridden and confined to its death bed, says analyst
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It might get particularly interesting if Zuma decides to open his ‘big files’ on some of his opponents in the ANC. The ANC is now ridden and confined to its death bed, according to political analyst Elvis Masoga. He was responding to the ANC’s recent national executive committee (NEC) meeting, where President Jacob Zuma was..
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Banks slapped with fines for weak anti-money laundering controls.
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Several local and international banks have been slapped with administrative fines by the South African Reserve Bank, for weak anti-money laundering and combating of financing terrorism controls. The banks include: Investec, Absa, Standard Chartered, as well as Habib Overseas Bank. Overall, banks were fined a total of R46.5-million. Absa was fined R10-million for weaknesses related..
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The many faces of Dr Dlamini-Zuma – What lies beneath?
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The air jarred at St Catherine’s Catholic Church near Bulwer in KwaZulu-Natal on that Sunday. At times, the choir struggled to hear itself over the Jehovah-techno drum machine beats that blasted from the speakers. Occasionally, loud shrieks of feedback cut through the praising and singing. It was a discordant soundtrack on a wet, muddy Mother’s..
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Jeff Radebe is in hot water over sexting sex scandal
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Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe is embroiled in a text sex scandal that threatens to torpedo his ambitions for higher office. Radebe, the country’s longest-serving cabinet minister, is in hot water for raunchy text and e-mail communication in which he asks for nude pictures of a 29-year-old Union Buildings staffer, Siyasanga Mbambani. In one..
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