Allegations of treason, espionage and revolutionary plots to topple President Jacob Zuma are stoking a no-holds-barred fight between senior police officers for control of the nation’s security apparatus. Squaring up in the courts and the media
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Standard Bank has asked the high court to prevent President Jacob Zuma and any of his ministers from intervening in its decision to close accounts of companies associated with the Gupta family. The appeal goes a step further than an
ANC MP Juli Kilian on Thursday raised concerns that SABC board minutes provided to parliament’s ad hoc committee looking into the broadcaster’s fitness might have been tampered with. Kilian raised the issue during former board
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is available to take on the position of president of the ANC in 2017 should he garner enough support to do so. “It would be very humbling to get into a key position like
Tech executives summoned to meet with Donald Trump in New York Wednesday had reason to suspect they were being lured into a trap. In the run-up to the election, the President-elect clashed with industry
The social development department’s ability to continue to make monthly welfare payments to about 17m people is in jeopardy because it ignored advice from the central bank, two people familiar with the situation said. The department
Yahoo disclosed a second major security breach that may have affected more than a billion user accounts, another blow to the company’s reputation as it nears the sale of its main Web businesses to Verizon Communications. The company
The SABC has had 12 CEOs in the past eight years, parliament’s ad hoc committee looking into the SABC board heard on Wednesday. Media Monitoring Africa’s William Bird told the committee that the institution had
South African inflation accelerated to the highest level in nine months in November, boosted by increases in food and transport prices. The inflation rate was 6,6% compared to 6,4% a month earlier, Pretoria-based
Microsoft said it will release a translation app for Windows and other operating systems from rivals Apple and Google, part of a broader race between the world’s largest technology companies for supremacy in the field of artificial intelligence. The