Can Africa Check be trusted?
Ernst Roets | 14 December 2017 Ernst Roets says the fact checking organisation has credibility issues Africa Check’s credibility crisis 14 December 2017 To use inaccurate statistics in public can be catastrophic to a…
Corruption
Leaked documents reveal shocking plunder in South African municipalities
Staff Writer8 September 2016 DA mayor in Nelson Mandela Bay, Athol Trollip, has frozen a R21 million contract the municipality had with Joburg-based media company, Mohlaleng Media. According to Trollip, a request has been submitted…
Mpumalanga: A thin line between democracy and fascism
PAUL TREWHELA 28 DEC 2017 04:22 (SOUTH AFRICA) There needs to be an independent judicial inquiry to decide whether threats of violence in Mpumalanga by armed and uniformed members of Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans…
#ZumaImpeachment: ConCourt rules NA failed to hold Zuma accountable
GAUTENG / 29 DECEMBER 2017, 11:23AM / GETRUDE MAKHAFOLA President Jacob Zuma. Picture: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters Johannesburg – The Constitutional Court has ruled that Parliament failed to hold President Jacob Zuma accountable for spending taxpayers’ money upgrading his private Nkandla home. ‘We…
Treasury covering up grand-scale corruption at PRASA
November 29, 20170  For almost a year, National Treasury has kept the lid on almost 200 investigations into PRASA contracts which show that up to R2.5 billion was siphoned off in contracts which should…
Jacob Zuma and the Theft of South Africa
By IVOR CHIPKINDEC. 12, 2017 Photo Protesters outside the Gupta family compound in Johannesburg in April. CreditJoao Silva/The New York Times JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s ruling African National Congress will meet on Dec. 16 to elect a…
Senior officers in the SAPS steal millions
Die Vryburger December 12, 2017 1 Senior officers in the SAPS steal millions IPID, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate, acting as the watchdog for the police, has uncovered a cache of worms, which shows that…
R76m pay to stay at home
GAUTENG / 28 NOVEMBER 2017, 06:30AM / LOYISO SIDIMBA File picture: Philimon Bulaway/Reuters Johannesburg – The trend of the Gauteng government paying suspended employees to stay at home doing nothing is getting worse, with nearly R76 million of taxpayers’…
Two weeks in December: the most critical time for SA since ’94
2017-11-01 06:53   (Picture: AFP) Multimedia · User Galleries · News in Pictures  Despite the president’s denial, the rumour that Cyril Ramaphosa is about to be fired as deputy president persists. Many senior…
Guptas milked Transnet billions, washed it through HSBC, other banks — report
JOHANNESBURG — The Guptas effectively used a money laundering system to shift over R2bn ($160m) across the globe via international banks like HSBC and Bank of Baroda in a deal involving Transnet and China South Rail. This is according to an…