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Zuma setback: Court orders review of 783 dropped corruption charges...
PRETORIA, April 29 (Reuters) – South Africa’s High Court ruled on Friday that a 2009 decision to drop 783 corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma was irrational and should be reviewed, another...
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Uganda blocks social media, clamps down as Museveni extends rule to 35 years
KAMPALA, May 12 (Reuters) – Uganda blocked social media sites including Twitter, Facebook and Whatsapp before the swearing-in ceremony on Thursday of President Yoweri Museveni, whose re-election...
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Africa’s #1 challenge: corruption. But words sans deeds lets evil flourish.
ISS head Anton du Plessis penned this strongly worded attack on corruption from Kigali, the Rwandan capital currently hosting the World Economic Forum’s annual African regional meeting. Members of the...
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Paul Whelan: August D-Day – Will growing opposition lay a marker?
The biggest conspiracy may hit South African shores come August, as there are murmurs that the municipal elections may be delayed. Apparently because some registered voters have not, as the banks would...
View ArticleAn expert’s solution – A plan to regenerate SA from bottom up
By Greville Wood* Society cannot remain stable when 80% of its people aged between 18 and 35 years will never find a job and history shows that the white minority will become the scapegoat to cover-up...
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Zuma’s uneasy weekend. NPA review of 783 corruption charges due Monday.
JOHANNESBURG, May 20 (Reuters) – South African state prosecutors will respond on Monday to a court ruling ordering the review of its 2009 decision to drop 783 corruption charges against President Jacob...
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Unrepentant Malema says unfit Zuma “will never find peace in Parliament”
The world is getting a clear message through the rise of Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn and others with ideas that would previously relegate them to the outskirts of mainline politics:...
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NPA to appeal High Court ruling to reinstate Zuma’s 783 corruption charges
President Jacob Zuma PRETORIA, May 23 (Reuters) – South Africa’s state prosecutor said on Monday he would appeal against a High Court ruling which could lead to 783 corruption charges being reinstated...
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Fact-checking ANC’s election manifesto – is ruling party advancing people’s...
Africa Check is a project of the AFP foundation, which prides itself on sorting fact from fiction. And in the fascinating contribution below, 16 key claims in the ANC’s local election manifesto are...
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Concerned professional: Denying masses to enrich individuals – Time for alt....
Getting put in the box, not only limits an individual’s action but also paints them with the same brush as those who define the box. It’s a gripe highlighted in an email sent by a member of the Biznews...
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Ed Herbst: Censorship roots. SABC’s ‘Eureka Moment’– the Arms Deal
Media censorship is not a foreign concept in the developing world, one only has to look at China as an example. But South Africa was on a different path. Following the regime change in the early 90’s,...
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SARS warns against tax ‘debt clearance’ scams. Targeting small businesses.
SARS media statement The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has noted a few incidents of scam artists that pretend to be representatives from SARS that have approached unsuspecting small businesses...
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Splintering of Nigeria threatened as minorities increasingly turn violent
Nigeria is a country of 300 identifiable tribes and almost 600 distinct languages which colonialism consolidated into a single geographic unit. After the honeymoon of gaining independence in 1960,...
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Herbst: It was worse under apartheid… ANC soft on corruption
It’s a staggering amount of money, despite it not all falling under government. In 2015, the Internal Institute of Auditors calculated that South Africa had lost around R700 billion to corruption since...
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SAPO CEO: Toughest job in SA? Mark Barnes – Adapt or die
Having ditched his banking career for entrepreneurial endeavours that brought lows (Capital Alliance with Mzi Khumalo) and highs (growing Purple Capital with Charles Savage), Mark Barnes is now in what...
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Treasury calculations: Zuma must pay 3.6% of Nkandla upgrades (R7.8m of R216m)
By Amogelang Mbatha (Bloomberg) — South African President Jacob Zuma should refund taxpayers for about 7.81 million rand ($510,000) spent on upgrading his private rural home, the National Treasury...
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Who’s footing Zuma’s R7.8m Nkandla bill? What of fringe benefits tax?
Just how much is enough? The Public Protector office pegged the costs for non-security Nkandla upgrades at around R10 million, so National Treasury and its team of experts weren’t far off. And while...
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Mugabe vs WhatsApp: Texting citizens to be arrested for “causing” unrest
Power corrupts. But even in the most repressive of Regimes, cracks exist through which truth can shine, lighting up the gloom by exposing reality, stimulating hope. Zimbabwe’s worst unrest in almost a...
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Mugabe Regime 20 year jail attempt for #ThisFlag Pastor thrown out of court
Faith is the belief in a Higher Power who will shield us against evil. Zimbabwean Pastor Evan Mawarire possesses that kind of faith in barrel-loads. Thrown into jail on Tuesday by the increasingly...
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Updated polls: DA is comfortably ahead of ANC in key metros of Jhb, Pta, PE
By Mike Cohen (Bloomberg) — South Africa’s African National Congress has failed to erode the lead of the main opposition party in Pretoria, the capital, and Johannesburg, three weeks before the nation...
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