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Business community applauds wake-up call from Western powers
LONDON — The United Kingdom, USA, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland have sent what is called an unprecedented warning to President Cyril Ramaphosa that he should act firmly against corruption if...
View ArticleAfrica rising: Young people are fighting back everywhere – The Wall Street...
Dictators and corrupt politicians have had it easy in Africa for decades, but that is changing. As The Wall Street Journal reports, young Africans are fighting back. This article is exclusive to...
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Guptas/Watsons pale next to PIC shenanigans – review
CAPE TOWN — A reading of the numbers in this sturdy review of the State of the PIC (and thus the nation), requires smelling salts close to hand. Remember, the PIC owns 20% of all outstanding bonds of...
View ArticleHow world sees SA: Ramaphosa honeymoon is truly over – FT
Cyril Ramaphosa always knew he had a tough job on his hands when it came to cleaning up corruption within the ANC. This article is exclusive to Biznews Premium. Members please login here. Not yet...
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SA’s politicians decide who probes them – Paul Hoffman
CAPE TOWN — South Africa’s ruling party has played cat and mouse with the Constitution when it comes to creating bodies meant to track and prosecute corruption. In this erudite, shining contribution,...
View ArticleHow to kill culture of corruption: axe friends, the Brazil way – The Wall...
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro appears to be taking no prisoners, firing a top advisor amid accusations of fraud connected to campaign finance. This article is exclusive to Biznews Premium. Members...
View ArticleEOH CEO tells colleagues: Time to rid SA of tumour of corruption
JOHANNESBURG — Last week was a terrible one for local JSE-listed technology company EOH as a scandal surrounding Microsoft giving it the boot torpedoed out of control. News about an SEC complaint...
View ArticleLiking Cyril in proportion to the ANC – Chuck Stephens unpacks
CAPE TOWN — If this story was a burr under the saddle of the ANC horse, it would probably throw its rider. Which would be a pity because the man holding the reins is keeping the party ahead of the...
View ArticlePromises, promises – main parties out of the blocks for election
LONDON — In a divided country, the starting gun has been fired for the next general election and if it looked rough up to now, it is about to go nuclear. We are not a country where politicians curry...
View ArticleSAP in more hot water, this time with East African state deals
JOHANNESBURG — German-headquartered enterprise software giant SAP finds itself, once again, caught up in a graft scandal on the African continent – this time in Kenya and Tanzania. It was only 2017...
View ArticleEditor’s Desk: Agrizzi, Cohen, and the fight against corruption
Alec Hogg and Felicity Duncan look at the global backlash against corruption and its link to slow growth, from Brazil to the US to South Africa. This article is exclusive to Biznews Premium. Members...
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DA softens on corruption body-independence – Paul Hoffman
CAPE TOWN — The bottom line in the opinion of legal eagle Paul Hoffman on the Constitutionally-required independence of corruption-busting bodies? The leaders of the main political parties and their...
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Corruption is embedded in black elite circles, warns SA politics expert
EDINBURGH — Corruption flourished in South Africa under former president Jacob Zuma, with his name and the surname of his friends, the Guptas, synonymous with graft. President Cyril Ramaphosa is on a...
View ArticleMarianne Thamm shines spotlight on ANC war over Zuma’s rogue, shadow state
EDINBURGH — When I was a final-year journalism student at Rhodes University in the late 1980s, the ANC offered to pay me to produce a video of the first party launches in the Eastern Cape after its...
View ArticleJail the corruptors to regain trust – ISS explains
LONDON — Now, this may not surprise any of you, we do not trust our public officials and definitely not the Police. The statistics from Afrobarometer indicate that 66% of us trust our cops very little...
View ArticleOUTA leader Wayne Duvenage: Here’s PROOF that SA is on road to recovery –...
EDINBURGH — Not everyone in the South African diaspora is on the run from corruption and crime. Many of us are working outside South Africa because that’s where the opportunities in our, or our...
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Stuck with hands in the cookie jar – Elders open letter to ANC patriots
LONDON — #ANClist trended on Twitter when it came to light that the ANC included several tainted politicians from the Zuma era on its list for Parliament. People could not believe that the names of...
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Steinhoff’s corporate crooks: South Africa chants ‘Send them to jail!’
EDINBURGH — It seems like yesterday that Steinhoff was a stock market darling and its former CEO Markus Jooste and chairman Christo Wiese were revered among investment analysts. The multinational...
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Outing the ‘more-radical-than-thou’ posse – Ann Bernstein
CAPE TOWN — Forget about the opportunistic, populist slaughtering of one sheep on a pristine luxury Cape Town beach – the ANC will have to slaughter a herd of ideological holy cows if South Africa is...
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Weighing up Andile Ramaphosa’s corruption probe prospects – De Vos
CAPE TOWN — Absorbing this analysis by Constitutional law expert Pierre de Vos, one can’t help wondering why Andile Ramaphosa doesn’t simply produce documentation showing a valid and honest agreement...
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