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Political Analyst Dr. Sam Koma says the Hawks and the police are the only authorities that can shed light on whether there was any criminality in the Phala Phala saga. Koma was weighing in on the uproar over the Reserve Bank's probe into whether there were exchange control violations during the theft of multi-million dollars at the President's Phala Phala farm in 2020. In the report, the Reserve Bank said […]
As the unprotected strike by City of Tshwane workers rages on, residents say they are forced to bear the brunt of the impasse. In some parts of the capital, community members say the strike has forced them to either live in unsanitary conditions or collect the rubbish and take it to dumping sites. They say municipal workers are also refusing to attend to sewages leaks, electrical faults and burst water […]
Civil Rights Organisation, Action Society SA, says Police Minister Bheki Cele has blood on his hands as more than 125 000 people have died under his watch. Action Society’s Ian Cameron says the latest statistics have shown that at least three people are killed every hour and 70 per day. The South African Police Service (SAPS) revealed the figures the during a briefing on the state of crime in South […]
The political parties that converged in Kempton Park from Wednesday to Thursday have signed a multiparty charter, aimed at ushering in a new era for South Africa. The leaders of seven political parties, including the DA, ActionSA, and FFplus, hope their plan will win the hearts and minds of South African voters and position them to unseat the ANC in next year's general election. The signing of the historical pact […]
Pressure continues to mount for pay-channel's Moja Love to bring back its drug-busting show, Sizokuthola. The Put South Africa First Movement has now threatened to boycott the channel should it fail to bring back the popular programme that's hosted by Xolani Khumalo. Earlier this week, the movement along with United Patriotic Front, held a picket outside Moja Love studios in Rosebank demanding that the show be brought back immediately. The programme […]
The ANC Youth League is refusing to apologise to Public Enterprises Minister, Pravin Gordhan. The Minister had demanded the apology after the governing party's youth wing during an interview with The Citizen recently accused him of being intent on selling off Eskom after he approved the restructuring of the embattled power utility into three separate entities. Gordhan has described ANCYL President Collen Malatji's statements as deliberate distortions of the truth […]
As South Africans celebrate the Johannesburg High Court's decision to sentence convicted paedophile, Gerhard Ackerman, to 12 life terms - NGO, Tears Foundation, says the ring he operated with must also be brought to book. The foundation's Interventions Team Supervisor, Kavya Swaminathan, says while the court's decision is welcomed, there is still more work to be done. Ackerman was sentenced to 12 life terms for more than 700 charges […]
The Section 194 parliamentary committee has recommended that suspended Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, be removed from office. The committee found there were grounds to sustain charges of misconduct and incompetence. This is in relation to her probes into the Absa/Bankorp lifeboat and Vrede Dairy farm sagas. She was also found by the majority of MPs to have displayed a lack of impartiality in her handling of the SARS rogue unit […]
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has rejected as baseless OUTA's claims that it's using companies that are not registered financial service providers to pay allowances into students' bank accounts. In a 59-paged report, OUTA also alleges that the four companies are relatively new, with very little proof of experience as fin-tech firms. The scathing report by the advocacy group, which was released on Tuesday, is an update […]
