The row that just won’t quit has resurfaced over the past seven days. Patricia de Lille and the DA have renewed hostilities like it’s 2018 all over again. Aunty Pat has asked the Western Cape High Court to launch an interdict, preventing her former party from “spreading lies” about her. The[…]
McBride will implicate at least 30 people in his evidence, including those from high office in government. The Commission of Inquiry into State Capture is expected to hear testimony from former Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) head Robert McBride. The commission was set to hear his testimony on Monday, but[…]
The motion was tabled by the Patriotic Alliance’s (PA) Marlon Daniels, who accused Bobani of neglecting poor communities. The United Democratic Movement (UDM) has called on anyone with information of corruption against Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor, Mongameli Bobani, to report it to the police. This comes after Bobani survived a[…]
The scourge of load shedding in 2008 was manufactured for financial gain, when Eskom paid exorbitantly for emergency coal contracts. This damning revelation, which was officially tabled in 2017 to the president of South Africa at the time, Jacob Zuma, has resurfaced in the wake of renewed incompetence embattling Eskom,[…]
DA councillor Shadow Shabangu says the R1.2m payment he got from the Springs Mall developers was not a bribe. [Image Source: Times Live / 123RF / Thodonal] DA councillor Shadow Shabangu, who was recently cleared by the party of sexual harassment, has been accused of receiving R1.2m in kickbacks from[…]
Brazil’s former President Michel Temer was arrested on Thursday as part of the sweeping anti-corruption investigation known as “Car Wash”, police said. According to the Federal Police office in Rio de Janeiro, authorities carried out 10 arrest warrants, including that of Michel Temer, as well as 26 additional search warrants[…]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to be indicted pending a hearing as part of three corruption cases, the attorney-general said on Thursday, in a move that could severely hamper his chances of re-election. Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit said Netanyahu should be indicted for bribery, fraud and breach of trust. The[…]
The Department of International Relations says it appreciates the concerns that some Western countries have raised about corruption in South Africa but adds that established diplomatic protocol should have been followed. The United States (US), United Kingdom (UK), Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland, through their diplomatic heads in South Africa, wrote[…]
South Africa ranked 73rd out of 180 countries that participated in a Transparency International (TI) survey – which ranks participating countries according to their perceived levels of corruption in the public sector. TI’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2018, which gave South Africa a score of 43 – the same score earned in 2017[…]
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[…]
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