Former Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi – an eyewitness, and participant to large-scale corruption at state entities – has delivered damning confirmatory testimony to a decade-old Special Investigating Unit (SIU) report into tender rigging at the prisons department. During the sixth day of his marathon testimony before the state capture commission[…]
The South African Prisoners’ Organisation for Human Rights (SAPOHR) has threatened to go to court in the coming weeks to ensure that all prisoners are registered to vote. SAPOHR wants the department of home affairs to issue temporary identity documents (IDs) to all sentenced prisoners and awaiting-trial detainees, so that[…]
Fisheries Minister Senzeni Zokwana cited the need to protect classified documents when he tried to get the Western Cape High Court to order the department’s director general to stop the disciplinary proceedings of three officials. “We are in essence here to protect those documents,” advocate Porchia Long submitted on Zokwana’s[…]
Chaos could erupt again at this year’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema has warned – and this time it could be centred around recent corruption allegations that emerged at the state capture commission of inquiry. Malema warned President Cyril Ramaphosa to come clean[…]
The suspension of Laerskool Schweizer-Reneke teacher Elana Barkhuizen is expected to take centre stage in the Labour Court in Johannesburg on Thursday when it hears an urgent application she lodged. The school dominated headlines two weeks ago when a photograph of Grade R pupils went viral on social media. It[…]
Bogus colleges are mushrooming all over South Africa, the Department of Higher Education and Training has warned as it embarks on a countrywide public awareness campaign. It has urged students and parents to first verify if institutions are registered with the department. “The message to students is to verify if[…]
Venezuela has plunged further into political crisis amid a growing row over President Nicolas Maduro’s future as the country’s leader. Maduro started a second term on January 10 following a widely-boycotted election last year that many foreign governments refused to recognise. On Wednesday, Juan Guaido, the leader of the opposition-controlled[…]
Dozens of Palestinian, Israeli, and international activists Wednesday morning blocked a highway many have dubbed the “apartheid road,” Route 4370 in the occupied West Bank, which separates Israeli and Palestinian traffic with a 26-foot concrete wall. The activists managed to shut down the highway for 20 minutes before Israeli Border[…]
Sudan, rocked by more than a month of anti-government protests, has received economic assistance from the United Arab Emirates and offers of support from Russia and Turkey, a Sudanese official said on Wednesday. The UAE offered unspecified help, while Russia and Turkey pledged fuel, wheat and other aid, Sudan’s Oil[…]
Angered residents of Bonteheuwel and surrounds demanded answers from National police commissioner Bheki Cele on Tuesday, after he called an urgent meeting to address the escalation of gang violence in the area. This follows a shooting incident on Sunday, where three alleged gangsters were shot dead and a forth wounded.[…]
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