A group of senior South African business leaders publicly expressed support for finance minister Pravin Gordhan as he faces fraud charges. “South Africa’s democratic transformation cannot afford to have a man of Gordhan’s
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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
The relatively trivial nature of the charges against finance minister Pravin Gordhan, and the way in which the prosecution has been pursued, leads to the conclusion that this is a trumped up charge. It also suggests that Gordhan
Divisions within the ANC are deepening and a potential downgrade of South Africa’s debt rating to junk isn’t fully priced in by markets, according to Goldman Sachs Group. The rand slumped as much as 4,3% against the dollar on
Gupta family lawyers have told the public protector that should the findings of her state capture report include that the family was “in any way whatsoever involved in inappropriate conduct,” she would be doing so at
Communications minister Faith Muthambi has distanced her office from former government spin doctor Mzwanele “Jimmy” Manyi. Earlier this week, Manyi tweeted that SABC executive Hlaudi Motsoeneng was on the “right side” of the
It’s South Africa’s equivalent to the proverbial $640 Pentagon toilet seat — a paper binding machine that the government buys from its suppliers for the rand equivalent of almost R28 000, about 13 times what it costs in a store. Kenneth Brown, the nation’s 54-year-old
The SABC board must go, members of parliament resolved on Wednesday. After lengthy deliberations all political parties who are members of the portfolio committee on communications agreed that the remaining board members should
Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane says former SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng has flipped the bird at South Africa’s legal system. “He has sent the middle finger to the judicial system. The courts don’t matter, and
Police in patrol cars slowly cruise around the University of the Witwatersrand’s eerily quiet campus in Johannesburg as a handful of students scurry to the library to prepare for year-end examinations they may not be able to take