Browsing: Mac Maharaj

The whispers that started weeks ago were wrong, as they so often are: presidential spokesperson Mac Maharaj will not be the minister for propaganda after all. But what President Jacob Zuma did announce on Sunday still has all the makings of a ministry for information, replete with overtones of spin and advocacy, but headed by the relatively unknown

The Special Investigating Unit will probe the validity of a tender awarded by the department of communications, the presidency said on Tuesday. “President Jacob Zuma has signed a proclamation authorising the SIU to investigate certain matters relating to

When in doubt, blame it on Mangaung. The ANC’s elective conference at the end of the year is definitely the dominant event on the political horizon, so much so that a botched telecommunications deal between Telkom and Korea’s KT Corp is being blamed