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The main reason the provincial leadership of the ANC wants Zuma as a frontman in their 2024 election campaign is because they believe no one has the political and popular clout in KZN that Zuma maintains.

Daily news update: Eskom has announced day-time load shedding will continue to be suspended until the weekend.

The Investigating Directorate’s Andrea Johnson says the unit is doing the best it can with the limited resources that it has. It will in future prioritise cases that deliver the most impact and those that have been most damaging to the country’s constitutional democracy.

Sixteen months ago, the Zondo Commission handed in its report, which sharply criticised Parliament for the shoddy oversight that allowed State Capture.

ANC MP Dipuo Peters is the third minister from the State Capture years to be found guilty and face sanction after civil society complaints to Parliament’s joint ethics committee.

In 2022, Zondo stressed the need for a structure that would be free from political oversight and be able to “combat corruption with fresh and concentrated energy”. He said the fight against corruption in public procurement ought not to be “left to a government department or be subject to minist...

Julius Malema’s claims were intended to delegitimise the trial and its outcome and intimidate the court into ruling in his favour.

The recommendations on improved governance, such as transparent appointment processes and criteria alongside persistent monitoring and controls, were aimed at ending and ensuring there was no repeat of State Capture at SOEs through pliant boards and executives. 

Had SA maintained our growth trajectory of the first 15 years, today the economy would be 20% larger at about $488-billion, not the current

The Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, has demanded that action be taken against Nqwazi after her arrest by the Hawks in 2022. He has made this a condition for the release of R781-million in grants to the metro.