Phatshoane Henney Attorneys, a Bloemfontein based law firm, has been linked to more than 400 entities in the Panama Papers. A searchable database of the leaked documents, which is hosted by The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), showed that Phatshoane Henney Attorneys has acted as an intermediary for 436[…]
Embattled High Court Judge Mabel Jansen told the Judicial Service Commission before her appointment in 2013 that she fought apartheid and knew what hardship meant. She was asked how she saw herself as an agent of change in transformation of the judiciary, according to a transcript of her interview with[…]
Donations for Cape Town train hero Darryn August continue to flood in as he recovers in hospital. August, 27, fractured his spine in two places when he was tossed from a train and hit a tree while trying to protect female passengers from being robbed on a Metrorail train he[…]
South Africa still ranks as the most attractive economy for investments destined for the continent despite challenges emanating from slow growth, a gloomy ratings outlook and waning perceptions, EY said in an index released Wednesday. The auditing and advisory company has also predicted a tough few years ahead for the[…]
New “world class experts” will be called when the hearing into Professor Tim Noakes’s conduct by the Health Professions Council of SA continues in October, he has confirmed. But the banting advocate is mum on who the “high powered” scientists will be. “I can’t wait [for proceedings to resume],” he told[…]
For the last nine months, more than R750 000 in insurance claims had been submitted by the City of Cape Town’s Health Directorate due to an ongoing cycle of crime and vandalism at local clinics, the City said on Tuesday. This, in addition to an already increased budget for security[…]
The pensions of government employees lost R95 billion in the two days last December that Des van Rooyen was finance minister‚ the CEO of the Public Investment Corporation‚ Dan Matjila‚ told Parliament on Tuesday. Dr Matjila‚ who was briefing Parliament’s portfolio committee on finance‚ said that the investments had “significantly[…]
Oxford scholar Ntokozo Qwabe is adamant that waitress Ashleigh Schultz was not reduced to tears in the controversy he describes as “tipgate”. “You must distinguish between the story as it happened and the story as it is told by the media‚” he told journalists in Johannesburg on Monday. He said[…]
Protesting students and security guards at Stellenbosch University clashed on Monday after a shack that had been erected on university property was demolished. A group who call themselves The Concerned Students took responsibility for placing the shack on the university’s Rooiplein (Red Square), next to a statue of Jan Marais.[…]
Unemployment has hit its highest on record, hurting efforts to convince ratings agencies Standard and Poor’s and Fitch not to downgrade South Africa’s credit rating Stats SA reported yesterday that unemployment had risen to 26.7% of the labour force in the first quarter of this year — the highest since[…]
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