President Jacob Zuma is “dangerous for our fragile democracy,” Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane has said. Speaking at a public meeting in Nelson Mandela Bay ahead of by-elections in the area, Maimane again took potshots at the president, accusing him of corruption and state capture. “This community deserves better and[…]
National Assembly secretary Masibulele Xaso personally delivered the “state capture” report to the public protector’s office on Monday. Xaso hand-delivered the report in Pretoria, where the new Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, took over from Thuli Madonsela. Xaso said he received confirmation that it had been received. “Due to the time[…]
President Jacob Zuma is currently in a weakened state with only a “scorched earth” strategy remaining open to him, said economist Peter Attard Montalto of Nomura in a company note on Monday. According to Montalto, the situation in South Africa is “ultimately unpredictable”, following events last week when Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan[…]
Court papers filed by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan that contain details of “suspicious” bank transactions by Gupta-owned companies totalling almost R7bn may be the first indication that Treasury has put in motion its so-called “nuclear bomb” option. Gordhan on Friday launched an application in the High Court in Pretoria in[…]
In an apparent bid to mimic his predecessor Julius Malema’s militancy, ANC Youth League president Collen Maine on Saturday called on military veterans to take up arms for President Jacob Zuma. The call by Maine, who is known as Oros in political circles, was made at a pro-Zuma march organised[…]
The showdown between South African President Jacob Zuma and Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan over control of the nation’s finances appears to be reaching its endgame, after prosecutors summoned the minister to appear in court next month on fraud charges. While Zuma, 74, reaffirmed his support for Gordhan on Tuesday, opposition[…]
There is no trace of a home loan in the name of President Jacob Zuma to repay his Nkandla debt of R7.8m, Netwerk24 reported on Sunday. VBS Mutual Bank claims to have lent Zuma the money, but no such a bond has been registered in the deeds office in Zuma’s[…]
President Jacob Zuma says he wants to see an urgent solution to the current crisis in higher education. Government and education stakeholders will hold an urgent meeting in Kempton Park, Johannesburg on Monday morning. They will discuss the wave of violent protests in which students are demanding free education. Several[…]
President Jacob Zuma has instructed the justice, crime prevention and security cluster to “deal with the mayhem” that is destroying South African universities, Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe said on Thursday. Radebe was briefing the media in Parliament following a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday and said Zuma would be[…]
The bank that came to the rescue of President Jacob Zuma – by granting him a loan to repay his R7.8 million Nkandla debt – now faces a possible probe from the Financial Services Board relating to a R136 million loan it is said to have given to a company in which[…]
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