Cyril watches Zuptoids take key parliamentary posts
The ANC internal chess game hasn’t lost any intensity if this week’s announcements of key posts in the new parliament are anything to go by. Former top Zuma allies, (aka Zuptoids), will chair the...
View ArticleNot only the ‘usual suspects’ were feeding at Eskom trough
In February this year, Eskom’s new board chairperson, Jabu Mabuza told the Zondo Commission into state capture that Eskom was the main theatre where corruption and state capture had taken place. Under...
View ArticleRevealed! Eskom bosses DELIBERATELY allowed coal supplies to dwindle – to...
Paul O’Sullivan is a forensic investigator who has played a leading role in pursuing the corrupt and captured who were allowed to flourish under former president Jacob Zuma. He was harassed, and even...
View ArticleZuma at Zondo – a blow by blow account of Day Two
On his first day of testimony at the Zondo Commission, former South African President Jacob Zuma played the victim card. He rejected the notion that he aided, abetted and benefited from graft during...
View ArticleAdamus Stemmet: Mpati must not forget PIC rogues in VBS saga
By Adamus Stemmet* Thank you for publishing this excellent article by Pauli van Wyk again. As you will remember there were actually two lady whistleblowers at the VBS saga, Mariette Venter and Yvonne...
View ArticleZuma backtracks on threat to halt Zondo testimony
By Nkululeko Ncana and Mike Cohen (Bloomberg) – Former South African President Jacob Zuma backtracked on a threat to halt his testimony to a judicial panel that’s investigating whether he consented to...
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Drawing up SA’s balance sheet – Theuns Eloff on positives, negatives &‘own...
It’s a sage metaphor for South Africa’s turnaround prospects drawn from Prof Theuns Eloff’s Voortrekker ancestors; put the right people on the wagon and unload the wrong ones, and it will likely get...
View ArticleCynthia Stimpel: Whistleblower who saved SAA R250m – and got hounded out the...
This is a riveting interview with whistleblower Cynthia Stimpel, a 60-something grandmother who refused to look the other way when corruption was being perpetrated at South African Airways. This...
View ArticleLessons for SA? Third Zimbabwean government official held on corruption
By Desmond Kumbuka (Bloomberg) – The permanent secretary in Zimbabwe’s tourism ministry, Munesu Munodawafa, has been arrested by the country’s anti-graft body for alleged abuse of office, state...
View ArticleNugent Report sees three SARS officials placed on precautionary suspension
SARS media statement: The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has placed key executives on precautionary suspension and extended the suspension of another executive today on 31 July, 2019 pending the...
View ArticleON THE RECORD: Nick Binedell on robots v humans, corruption and...
At the WEF Africa meeting, Nick Binedell, the founder and former dean of GIBS, Africa’s top business school, applied his mind to some tricky questions posed by members of the Biznews community. His...
View ArticleMcebisi Jonas unplugged – Prescribed assets, Eskom, Tito’s blueprint and more…
It is not every day that a former Deputy Finance Minister in the ANC government, Mcebisi Jonas, publicly agrees with former DA leader Helen Zille. This article is exclusive to Biznews Premium. Members...
View ArticleRight of Reply. DA justice expert told Agrizzi: You should do 30 years’ jail...
As President Cyril Ramaphosa turned up the heat on corruption, Angelo Agrizzi re-styled himself as a state capture whistle-blower. He came forward to accuse incompetent SAA chair Dudu Myeni of...
View ArticleWORLDVIEW: Here’s the problem with the Zondo Commission, so far
The Zondo Commission is vital to the democratic future of South Africa. But the Commission is not doing enough to build a solid case against the looters. This article is exclusive to Biznews Premium....
View ArticleNAILED! US imposes sanctions on Gupta brothers, Essa for SA corruption
The world just got smaller for former president Jacob Zuma’s friends – the Gupta brothers and their lieutenant, Salim Essa – as the US imposed sanctions on them for corruption and stealing state...
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Cyril in London: State Capture cost SA close to R1trn with a global hand
President Cyril Ramaphosa is at the Financial Times Africa Summit in London to sell the African Continental Free Trade Area that will bring together 54 nations in a single market of 1.2 billion people....
View ArticleWORLDVIEW: Maybe the problem with South Africa is South Africans
Municipalities in South Africa owe Eskom nearly R20bn – most of it due to households’ failure to pay their electricity bills. This article is exclusive to Biznews Premium. Members please login here....
View ArticleEskom attacks Deloitte as fresh corruption scandal erupts: Pay back the money!
Big Four accounting firm Deloitte has joined rival KPMG as a key player in corruption that has plagued South Africa for the past decade. The role of Deloitte in state capture was thrust into centre...
View ArticleRamaphosa corruption purge begins: First ANC minister in dock #StateCapture
President Cyril Ramaphosa promised to crackdown on corruption when he was elected as ANC leader in 2017. Finally, his words have been put into action, with the first major arrest. Former State Security...
View ArticleBongo arrest signals action; Repo rate unchanged; no Bosasa auction; Corpse...
By Linda van Tilburg Former State Security Minister Bongani Bongo has been arrested in a case related to bribery and state-owned companies in what is seen as Cyril Ramaphosa’s government’s first...
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