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MUST READ: Why I quit new alien and corrupt ANC – Makhosi Khoza
JOHANNESBURG — In an organisation plagued by the Zuptoid virus, it’s important to highlight the rays of hope that emanate from it. The problem is that one of these rays has decided to part ways with...
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Discretionary power the ROOT of SA’s corruption, disinvestment – Martin van...
JOHANNESBURG — Controversial government decisions — ranging from letting Grace Mugabe leave South Africa to the bailout of SAA — all come down to one key factor: discretionary power. This is according...
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Ed Herbst on that non-rogue unit: So where’s the brothel, Tom Moyane?
JOHANNESBURG — Veteran journalist Ed Herbst once again brilliantly picks apart the inconsistency of government officials’ questionable statements and behaviour. In this piece, Herbst focuses his energy...
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Lessons from KPMG, Bell Potts: Saffers unafraid of taking on corruption
JOHANNESBURG — If one phrase had to define South Africa in 2017, it may very well be ‘people power’. The NPA and the Hawks may be sitting on their hands while revelations about the corrupt Guptas make...
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Horwitz: Neither Ramaphosa nor Dlamini-Zuma are fit to govern. Here’s why.
JOHANNESBURG — The race to succeed Jacob Zuma as ANC president has, so far, been dominated by two front-runners: Cyril Ramaphosa and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Both politicians have hogged headlines with...
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SA perilously close to land grabs: Ramaphosa vows to take property off ‘lazy...
Insignia of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) EDINBURGH — The land expropriation debate has cast a shadow over Ramaphoria – the feel-good, positive boost to business sentiment – that has swept...
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Denel stands naked on the battleground – PIC battalion called up
CAPE TOWN — Denel was once a thriving, proud producer of world-class weapons and munitions, with combative and/or threatened countries beating down it’s door to get their hands on long range artillery...
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KPMG brings in global big guns to rescue SA business, but are they any less...
KPMG International heavyweights have decided to take over the SA business, which is showing signs of strain after more than a year of negative publicity about its complicity in corruption and state...
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Thrown under a bus! 10 things 400 angry KPMG staffers want SA to know
EDINBURGH — KPMG has repeatedly shrugged off allegations of rampant corruption within its ranks. The Big Four accounting firm has featured in the state capture scandal that brought South Africa to its...
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What we’ll know about Zuptoid State theft and capture by 2020 – a snap audit
CAPE TOWN — There’s a line in this story from a corporate fraud management consultant that just about sums it all up; “the scope of the challenge facing the state capture investigation team defies...
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Here’s what we need to do to fix up South Africa – GIBS’ Marius Oosthuizen
JOHANNESBURG — Let’s hope that South Africa’s divergent political elite are reading this post because this article by GIBS’ Marius Oosthuizen outlines a simple but possibly highly effective blueprint...
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EFF’s racist diatribe unpacked – shadowy motivation suggested
CAPE TOWN — The problem with young populists is they have relatively little institutional memory and think they can fool most of the people most of the time, not realising that there are seasoned and...
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Transnet blew BILLIONS on trains under Brian Molefe, Anoj Singh – Werksmans
JOHANNESBURG — Brian Molefe and Anoj Singh are increasingly becoming the two chief suspects in state capture, as the pair stand accused of giving the green light to billions of rands in questionable...
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Mailbox: On KPMG, dinosaurs and wrath – why blockchain could disrupt auditing
JOHANNESBURG — KPMG’s announcement last week that it has cut 400 staff from its South African operations became the latest challenge faced by the Zuptoid-cursed auditing firm. KPMG will scale back its...
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Why Cyril Ramaphosa lies awake worrying about tax – New York Times
Cyril Ramaphosa stands knee-deep in a very messy fight to wrest the tax agency from the legacy of Jacob Zuma and win back the confidence of an angry nation, says the New York Times. This is a Biznews...
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Zuptoids set to rise from the ashes – analyst
CAPE TOWN — Unknown to him, former President Jacob Zuma was preparing a thorny bed of sleepless nights for his ouster via a decade of Zuptoid misrule and misappropriation. So thorny in fact that it is...
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What Trump has got in common with Zuma – NYT
The New York Times reckons Trump and Zuma have a lot in common and is optimistic that both will come right in the end. Reading between the lines, there’s a bigger clean-up required for South Africa....
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SA bleeding out as law agencies look for sticking plasters
CAPE TOWN — In this hard-hitting, sobering reprise of how effectively the Ramaphosa government has dealt with endemic corruption, Paul Hoffman, Director of Accountability Now, provides a welcome wake...
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SA’s future balanced on a knife-edge as Zuptoids regroup
CAPE TOWN — Observers and analysts are having a field day predicting whether a Ramaphoric or Zuptoidal ANC will win at the 2019 hustings. It’s right on the money when it comes to how global financial...
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Destined for ruins: Rural SA towns collapse as 60% of municipalities...
JOHANNESBURG — There’s a sense of sadness and realism to this story from Bloomberg on rural South African towns. It’s sad because millions of South Africans still live in rural towns and the ANC...
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