Bloomberg18 November 2019 UK lawmaker Peter Hain accused international banks including HSBC Holdings Plc and Standard Chartered Plc of aiding and abetting graft in South Africa during former President Jacob Zuma’s rule and earning considerable…
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By Sam Mkokeli• 31 July 2019 ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule, left, and President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photos: Deaan Vivier / Media 24 / Leila Dougan) 202 Reactions Battered and bruised, Ace Magashule, the face of the…
Zuma’s strategy of avoiding the issue entirely, and proclaiming victimhood instead, got him to the presidency; now he’s hoping it will keep him out of jail 17 July 2019 – 08:00 Former president Jacob Zuma…
The spy who loved us – Zuma’s tale 17th July 2019 by Chris Bateman Veteran journalist and author of Zuma: A Biography (2008), Jeremy Gordin, reckons the former president and Zuptoid-in-chief is happily and bizarrely…
Staff Writer27 June 2019 The EFF wants to introduce a number of bills within the coming months, as the party seeks to have a greater influence in the country’s political sphere. Speaking in parliament on…
DECEMBER 7, 2017 LONDON — Lord Peter Hain has proved to be one of the most potent of the many weapons in South Africa’s anti-corruption army. A former Labour Party cabinet minister who graduated from the long-haired activist who…
MARIANNE THAMM SOUTH AFRICA 30 NOV 2017 01:16 (SOUTH AFRICA) 1617 Reactions Wednesday’s Scopa hearing, supposedly into the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, will go down as a turning point…
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…
Foreign investigations may step in where South Africans are too cowardly 03 NOVEMBER 2017 – 05:38 Ajay, front, and Atul Gupta. Picture: MARTIN RHODES The skeletons are falling out of the cupboard at a furious…
OCTOBER 20, 2017 JOHANNESBURG — The announcement yesterday that the UK’s Serious Fraud Office is expected to investigate whether Standard Chartered or HSBC have been exposed to alleged illicit cash outflows relating to the Guptas is sure to set…
