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The Economic Freedom Fighters is on Sunday set to open a criminal case against the Gupta family and their company directors after “suspicious” transactions were revealed in a court application by finance minister Pravin

President Jacob Zuma on Sunday said he had received and accepted the resignation of two members of the SABC board. At the start of the month, board members Krish Naidoo and Vusi Mavuso announced

Finance minister Pravin Gordhan filed court papers that implicate President Jacob Zuma’s friends, the Gupta family, and companies they control in “suspicious transactions” totaling R6,8bn, signalling

Cinven, Permira and Mid Europa Partners agreed to buy Naspers’s Polish online auction site Allegro for almost US$3,3bn (R46,4bn), taking on rivals such as eBay in the Eastern European country

Xiaomi distributor Mobile in Africa plans to open stores in South Africa focused on promoting and selling the fast-growing Chinese smartphone brand, its head, RJ van Spaandonk, said on Thursday. Mobile in Africa, which is a sister

Finance minister Pravin Gordhan described fraud charges against him as frivolous and unfounded and said he has no intention of relinquishing his post unless President Jacob Zuma fires him. His lawyers will

Government has no intention of running a mobile network in the country, says telecommunications minister Siyabonga Cwele. Last month, cabinet approved South Africa’s new national ICT policy which seeks

The release of a report by South Africa’s graft ombudsman into the alleged influence of President Jacob Zuma’s friends, the Gupta family, in government affairs has become bogged down in the courts, with legal actions lodged to

President Jacob Zuma has applied for an interdict on the publication of a report by the nation’s graft ombudsman on the alleged influence of the Gupta family in government affairs, public protector Thuli Madonsela said. “He has applied

The South African Social Security Agency’s irregular expenditure over the last financial year skyrocketed by over a thousand percent, from R93m in 2014/2015 to over R1bn in 2015/2016. The bulk of the R1,1bn