Durban – A group of MK Military veterans squared off with police and Metro Police officials near the mayor’s office demanding an audience with Mayor Zandile Gumede over jobs.
The stand-off has resulted in the city centre being gridlocked during peak traffic on Tuesday as the vet protested outside City Hall on Durban’s main street, Pixley Ka Seme (West).
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JOHANNESBURG – Former president Jacob Zuma’s lawyer has confirmed they have received a summons for him to appear in court on April 6.
His lawyer, Michael Hulley says they are now busy preparing an application to review the National Prosecuting Authority’s decision to prosecute Zuma
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MAHIKENG – North West Premier Supra Mahumapelo must go, public servants from the provincial health department said on Tuesday.
Hundreds of National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu), the Democratic Nursing Organisation of SA (Denosa) and the Health and Other Services Personnel Trade Union of SA (Hospersa) marched to the provincial legislature demanding that Mahumapelo must resign from his position as a premier within 14 days
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Johannesburg – NPA head Shaun Abrahams is free to make an announcement on whether former president Jacob Zuma will face corruption charges.
National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson Luvuyo Mfaku confirmed that Abrahams will make a decision on Zuma’s fate any day after Thursday
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Rustenburg – North West premier Supra Mahumapelo on Thursday welcomed the raids by the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) at his office.
“In all my state of the province addresses since 2014, I have always emphasised the importance of all of us, as directed by our organisation, the ANC, to intensify at all fronts, the campaign against greed, crime and corruption. In this regard, the North West government adopted a monthly Setsokotsane programme focusing on 10 campaigns, which includes this matter,” said Mahumapelo hours after Hawks investigators began the raid
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Johannesburg – The IEC has confirmed that Atul Gupta is, indeed, registered to vote at Saxonwold Primary School.
IEC deputy chairperson Terry Tselane said at a media briefing on Wednesday that the IEC was asked to check the registration details of an ID number, which proves that Atul is indeed a South African citizen.
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PRETORIA – It’s being reported that authorities are raiding the properties of the Guptas in India, including their home in Saharanpur.
Indian media is reporting that the raids relate to a fraud investigation against Ajay Gupta, who is considered a fugitive from justice in South Africa.
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Cape Town – The national government’s departmental “meltdowns” are having a bad effect on municipal budgets and normal services, mayoral committee member for safety, security and social services JP Smith said in Cape Town on Thursday.
“I must just say, for me, there is a pattern emerging,” he said.
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PRETORIA – The Hawks have confirmed that a warrant of arrest has been issued for Ajay Gupta but it’s not related to the Estina Dairy Farminvestigation.
The unit’s acting head Yolisa Matakata clarified this aspect related to the case which saw eight suspects appear in court in Bloemfontein a week ago.
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The Bishops of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa are concerned that citizens are effectively paying for the impact of corruption through a hike in Value-Added Tax (VAT).
The bishops expressed their “deep concern” at the hike by one percentage point to 15% announced in Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba’s “tough but hopeful” budget speech.
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JOHANNESBURG – Today is the deadline for a team of prosecutors considering former president Jacob Zuma’s representations to make a recommendation to prosecutions boss Shaun Abrahams on whether or not to reinstate charges relating to fraud and corruption.
Zuma submitted reasons as to why he should not have his day in court at the end of last month, nine years after the original decision to prosecute was withdrawn.
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Cape Town – The Public Protector has found that Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown misled the National Assembly when she denied there were engagements between power utility Eskom and the Gupta-linked company Trillian Capital Partners.
This is according to a report issued by the Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to the DA on Thursday.
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Pretoria – Civil organisation Corruption Watch turned to the Gauteng High Court, in Pretoria, for an order setting aside the decision of the South African Social Services Agency (Sassa) to pay R317 million to Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) regarding the registration and payment of grant beneficiaries.
Corruption Watch want CPS to pay back the money, together with interest, to the public coffers, pending a recalculation of what the proven amount due to CPS is.
Sassa earlier withdrew its opposition to the review application, while CPS is defending the matter.
Advocate Steven Budlender, acting for Corruption Watch, on Thursday argued that the decision taken by Sassa to vary a services contract with CPS for the distribution of social grant payments to the poorest of society, is at the heart of this case.
Corruption Watch is of the opinion that the variation, which resulted in Sassa paying CPS R317 million, was unlawful.
Budlender said the money was paid in circumstances where the parties had not even agreed a cost for the varied services and where Sassa had failed to establish that this amount was even owed to CPS.
“This is irrational,” he said.
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How did a convict sentenced in 1996 to 10 years for robbery with aggravated circumstances find himself floating around the ANC’s elective conference in Mangaung in 2012, flush with a cool R50-million aimed at stoking factional battles in the ANC?
Continuing the tradition at Nasrec in December 2017, pressure was also allegedly placed on the SAPS to launder R45-million to buy votes. Details of this and other horrors of the Shadow State were revealed by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate at a Scopa report-back on Tuesday. The clean-up has begun.
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Members of Parliament (MPs) who attended the State of The Nation Address have shied away from speculating on a possible Cabinet reshuffle.
Although this was something some opposition party MPs wanted President Cyril Ramaphosa to touch on during his speech, he didn’t mention it.
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