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Employees of Gupta-owned Oakbay Investments marched to major banks on Tuesday to demand that the company’s accounts be reopened. Armed with placards with phrases such as

Former finance minister Nhlanhla Nene has been appointed a non-executive director at Allan Gray. A spokesman at the company told City Press that Nene was appointed at a board meeting on

Instead of announcing tax hikes in his budget speech on Wednesday, finance minister Pravin Gordhan should seek to raise revenue through asset sales, including the sale of “non-strategic liquid assets” such as Telkom, the Democratic Alliance has said

A national treasury official received training in nuclear finance, sponsored by South Korea, at an estimated cost of R500 000 in the 2014/2015 financial year. This information listed among others in national treasury’s 2014/2015 annual report contradicts claims by finance

A motion for a full parliamentary probe into the role of security services in the removal of Electronic Freedom Fighters MPs from parliament on 12 February, and the jamming of the cellphone signal, was tabled in the national assembly on Tuesday. DA MP David Maynier called

Defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula says she will not be drawn into public discussion on Project Flute, the name of a secret contract reportedly involving a defence intelligence satellite. “The minister has refused to be drawn into discussing matters of security of the

There were many unanswered questions about a satellite reportedly commissioned eight years ago under the title “Project Flute”, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday. “It is time, after more than eight years and R1bn, for government to provide some straight answers about

The DA has called for the suspension of senior diplomat Abdul Minty over allegations emerging from a legal challenge to cellphone giant MTN’s operations in Iran. Allegations against Minty were so serious that they should be probed by the department of international relations and the diplomat suspended

The Hawks were investigating allegations of corruption at MTN relating to a mobile licence in Iran, an official said on Tuesday. “There are allegations. We first did an assessment to cast the strength of the allegations. After this we decided to do a follow-up investigation,” spokesman McIntosh Polela said