South Africa’s decision to stall plans championed by President Jacob Zuma to build nuclear plants has exposed his waning authority. News of the delay came on Tuesday when the department of energy said additional atomic power won’t come on stream
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The State IT Agency has finally explained why it pulled the plug on a government tender, worth up to R1,5bn, to roll out broadband to underserviced parts of the country: none of the bidders qualified. The tender was the first phase of a network
President Jacob Zuma will face a tough grilling during his last question-and-answer session for the year in the national assembly. Zuma will answer questions in parliament on Wednesday, his first appearance since he blasted the
When President Jacob Zuma retires, he will write a tell-all book about his tenure as the president of the country, he said on Friday. Zuma was speaking at a cadres forum in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu
President Jacob Zuma on Friday told more than 3 000 ANC supporters at a cadres forum in Pietermaritzburg that he was no thief. “You can spread lies as big as Durban. I don’t care,” Zuma told the supporters
A political firestorm over an aborted attempt to charge finance minister Pravin Gordhan with fraud has ignited a power struggle between the head of a special police unit that carried out the investigation and the
Mark Pamensky, who is a director of a company owned by South Africa’s Gupta family that has ties with President Jacob Zuma’s son, resigned as a board member at state-owned Eskom, less than a week after the utility’s CEO quit. Recommendations will be made
President Jacob Zuma has declined to answer written questions from MPs around the findings in former public protector Thuli Madonsela’s State of Capture report. In parliamentary replies released on Monday, Zuma gave a
Brian Molefe, the CEO of South Africa’s state-owned power utility, said he will leave Eskom following the release of a report by the nation’s graft ombudsman into the influence of the wealthy Gupta family on the state and the