Author: staff
Former National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula contends that the corruption case against her is based on hearsay evidence and the version of a single witness without corroboration – all contained in a docket ostensibly registered seven months after the investigation started.
The Director of Public Prosecutions in Pretoria, advocate Sibongile Mzinyathi, is keeping his cards close to his chest when it comes to whether or not singer Kelly Khumalo might be charged in connection with the 2010 murder of her former boyfriend, soccer star Senzo Meyiwa.
Chinese cars might flood our local market, but bakkies will forever do well in South Africa. We look at November’s figures for the most popular models with Hilux in the lead, and Ford exporting a whopping figure of its Ranger bakkie to global markets.
Activity in South Africa’s construction industry lifted in the third quarter of the year, with SA’s improved economic confidence and moderation in interest rates boding well for next year, according to the latest Afrimat Construction Index.
A Western Cape High Court judge has found that attorney Zuko Nonxuba – under whose watch R188 million in medical negligence payouts to severely disabled children disappeared – had engaged in “widespread theft” and was unfit to practise as a lawyer.
In a first in the province’s 30 years since the advent of democracy, the Free State legislature has failed to hold its Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement address on the pencilled-in date amid squabbles in the ANC’s provincial leadership, which are said to be affecting government departments as well as the legislature.
While some overseas countries are “very particular” about the pupils they choose to participate in an international standardised test, South Africa allows local pupils whose parents are from Zimbabwe to take part, reflecting all pupils’ academic progress.
Cornered by Parliament in September this year for an explanation about the Silvanas Coffee Shop “loan” she took from a criminally charged VBS fixer, then-justice minister Thembi Simelane claimed her business, T5 Investment Group, repaid R849 000 to the lender four years later.
On Wednesday, the SCA threw out Steinhoff’s appeal against a high court decision ordering the company to release the full report of a forensic investigation into the massive fraud that pitched Steinhoff into free-fall and eventual liquidation, costing investors more than R200 billion.
SA Rugby, grilled on ousted CEO Jurie Roux’s continued involvement with the organisation, told Parliament on Wednesday it would accept the outcome of Friday’s vote to either allow or deny a groundbreaking private equity deal that has been pitched as the saving grace of the sport.