It’s D-Day for Jacob Zuma. By midnight on Friday‚ a five-person prosecuting team will have to recommend to National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams whether or not to go ahead with the prosecution of the former president. In October last year Abrahams gave Zuma and the Democratic Alliance until[…]
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.[…]
The R6-billion allocated by Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba for drought relief and infrastructure is a drop in the ocean‚ Western Cape Premier Helen Zille said on Thursday. “Although R6-billion is a lot of money‚ divided between five provinces it will hardly touch sides if it is intended both for relief[…]
Home Affairs and immigration officials visited the offices of the embattled ANN7 channel on Thursday afternoon for a “routine inspection” Staff members have told News24 how they “have never seen something like that before”. Earlier this year, MultiChoice announced it would not be renewing its license with the channel, after[…]
Five police officers have been killed after gunmen attacked a police station in the small town of Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape. Initial reports are that three officers were killed in an exchange of gunfire with the assailants at about midnight last night. Two other officers were killed in a[…]
Student body, South African Students Congress (Sasco) says it’s eagerly waiting to hear how the finance minister is going to allocate the funding for higher education on his budget speech on Wednesday afternoon. Former President, Jacob Zuma announced in December that the government would subsidise higher education for poor and[…]
The Rail Commuters Action Group (RCAG) on Monday laid criminal charges against the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) at Muizenberg police station, GroundUp has reported. The charges relate to the death of 19-year-old Keeno Abib on January 13, 2018, between False Bay and Lakeside train stations. An eyewitness[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to respond to the debate and questions around his first State of the Nation Address (SONA). But before the newly sworn in president responds to questions raised by members of Parliament on Tuesday, he is expected to be out early in the morning in Gugulethu[…]
The Economic Freedom Fighters have questioned a report released by the SA Institute of Race Relations that suggests 60% of the party’s MPs have left Parliament since 2014. In an op-ed in the Daily Maverick‚ EFF MP and deputy secretary general Hlengiwe Mkhaliphi said the author of the IRR report‚[…]
The Hawks would not be drawn on if Duduzane Zuma is a person of interest or if a warrant has been issued for his arrest. “The only person we spoke about was Ajay [Gupta]. Now people want to know what is happening within our investigations. We can’t talk about those[…]
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