A Durban businesswoman, who was a building contractor for President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead, has been arrested and charged with fraud and corruption, the Sunday Independent reported. Thandeka Nene is accused of exaggerating her experience as a builder to win government tenders valued at R118-million, and of bribing a public[…]
ANC veterans believe President Jacob Zuma should do the honourable thing and pay back some of the R246 million in state funds used to upgrade his private Nkandla home in KwaZulu-Natal, the Mail and Guardian reported on Friday. Veterans’ League president Sandi Sejake, former ANC MP Ben Turok, and former[…]
The media has been barred from the disciplinary hearings of two public works officials in relation to spending on Nkandla, the Public Servants Association said on Wednesday. “The media application was opposed by the PSA and we had council arguing on our behalf,” spokesman Roshan Lil-Ruthan said. “The chairman [of[…]
Corruption charges laid against President Jacob Zuma over the so-called security upgrades at his Nkandla home by opposition parties have been centralised and are being investigated nationally, police spokesman Solomon Makgale said on Monday. “The charges were laid by opposition party members at many police stations,” Makgale said. “It was[…]
Twenty EFF MPs have been found guilty of all charges stemming from their heckling of President Jacob Zuma over his Nkandla home, Parliament’s powers and privileges committee said on Wednesday. Economic Freedom Fighters Chief Whip Floyd Shivambu and his colleague Mpho Ramakatsa were found guilty of seven charges each, and[…]
Public works will hold discussions about a settlement proposal with 12 of its officials who have been charged in connection with upgrades to President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla home, City Press reported on Sunday. The officials were reportedly demanding that their individual hearings be merged and turned into a commission of[…]
The public protector has warned President Jacob Zuma in a letter that his remarks over her role could lead to “lawlessness” and set a dangerous precedent, Beeld reported on Friday. “It can lead to lawlessness, which can have a damaging affect on the effect of the public protector,” she said,[…]
The Democratic Alliance on Sunday demanded that President Jacob Zuma pay back the money spent on his Nkandla homestead and nobody else. “The DA rejects the notion that any person can pay back any portion of the R246 million public funds used for upgrades at… Nkandla, other than President Zuma[…]
Jacob Zuma could be called to testify during the public works departmental disciplinary hearings into upgrades to the president’s Nkandla home, the Sunday Independent reported. “We’re not ruling out the possibility that President Jacob Zuma could be called to testify,” Kwazulu-Natal Public Service Association (PSA) manager Claude Naiker told the[…]
ANC MPs on Tuesday moved to absolve President Jacob Zuma of any wrongdoing in the Nkandla controversy as they unilaterally pursued Parliament’s consideration of the matter following an opposition walkout. They said there was no evidence that Zuma asked for luxuries to be added to his private home in KwaZulu-Natal,[…]
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