In 10 days, seven hours and 39 minutes the EFF will hold President Jacob Zuma accountable to the country for the upgrades to his home at Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal. This is according to a “Sona countdown Zuma #paybackthemoney” clock on its website. Economic Freedom Fighters national spokesman Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said[…]
Parliament is being used to condone corruption, the EFF said on Thursday. “We warn the Speaker and the presidency that Parliament is not a rubber stamp for their corrupt and immoral practices,” the Economic Freedom Fighters said in a statement. “Corruption is institutionalised from the top and Parliament is used[…]
President Jacob Zuma will answer questions in the National Assembly in March, Speaker Baleka Mbete said on Wednesday. “The office of the Speaker of the National Assembly has today received from the presidency confirmation of a date for questions to the president as 11 March 2015,” her office said in[…]
Prosecutor-turned Democratic Alliance MP Glynnis Breytenbach on Wednesday said the allegations that led to Hawks boss Anwa Dramat’s suspension were baseless. “It is a nothing, it is just a made-up thing,” she told the Cape Town Press Club on the allegations that Dramat was involved in the illegal rendition of[…]
The union representing 11 public works department employees facing a disciplinary hearing over the upgrades to President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead says the group will not plead guilty, The Sunday Independent reported. “Our members are determined to let the internal disciplinary hearings go ahead. They do not fear anything at[…]
Police on Tuesday dismissed reports that suspended Hawks boss Anwa Dramat was asked to provide information about the Nkandla investigation to police commissioner Riah Phiyega. “Phiyega and… Dramat never discussed the Hawks’ investigations into Nkandla,” said the elite police unit’s spokesman Captain Paul Ramaloko in a statement. “The Hawks is[…]
More than 6000 children and youth attended President Jacob Zuma’s RDP education trust party in KwaNxamalala, Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal, the presidency said on Monday. This was Zuma’s 13th year hosting the annual Christmas party. “Every year, we look forward to this day when we do something for the many orphans[…]
A senior public works department employee has become the first official involved in the upgrades of President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead to take the fall for the R246 million project, City Press reported on Sunday. Itumeleng Molosi, 58, director of projects, pleaded guilty to irregularly appointing contractors and flouting procurement[…]
President Jacob Zuma has “misled” South Africans about the R246 million spent on his Nkandla homestead, Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader Mmusi Maimane said on Monday. “Last night [Sunday], during an SABC interview, President Jacob Zuma misled the nation by declaring that he had done ‘absolutely nothing wrong’, relating to the[…]
Transparency International’s rating of South Africa in the 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) indicated a significant problem, Corruption Watch (CW) said on Wednesday. The non-profit organisation said in a statement that South Africa scored 44 out of 100, where 0 indicates a perception that a country is highly corrupt. Of[…]
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