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SIU probe into Makana welcomed

Makana says it is preparing information and documentation required by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), for a probe into the procurement and payment processes related to the awarding of certain tenders and contracts. The municipality…

Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane. File photo.Image: Sunday Times/Masi Losi

Premier Mabuyane’s update and decisions on the SIU report about procurement of goods and services by provincial government and municipalities

We called this press conference to share with you information about decisions we have taken about governance matters of our provincial government. Before we do that, allow me to update you about our response to COVID-19 in the Eastern…

Oppostion parties on Thursday said there was nothing impressive about President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state of the nation address.Image: Esa Alexander

Ramaphosa spoke but said nothing at all: opposition parties react to Sona

The fire that destroyed SA is the ANC government which allowed the looting and stealing of taxpayers’ money, says the FF+ The FF+ on Thursday left the parliamentary precinct disappointed, saying President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state of the…

President Cyril Ramaphosa reads through his state of the nation address notes on Thursday, just hours before speaking in parliament.Image: GCIS

There’s been progress but corruption remains ‘great impediment’ to growth — Cyril Ramaphosa during Sona

President Cyril Ramaphosa has labelled corruption as one of the greatest impediments to the country’s growth and development, saying the matter needed urgent attention. During his state of the nation address on Thursday night, Ramaphosa…

President Cyril RamaphosaImage: GCIS

OPINION: What is Ramaphosa likely to tell us at tomorrow’s SONA?

The 2021 State of the Nation Address (SONA) will take place tomorrow evening during a period when a world-wide pandemic has devastated economies around the world and restricted the movement of people between countries and even within…

The 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index highlights how corruption has impacted the abilities of countries, including SA, to manage their health-care responses to Covid-19. Stock photo.Image: 123RF/viorelkurnosov

SA remains pegged below 50 points in Corruption Perception Index

Failure to move above the mark for nearly 10 years is a damning indictment of the extent of corruption and its damage: Corruption Watch Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) has shown how corruption has…

President Cyril Ramaphosa. File photo.Image: GCIS

We won’t back down, says Ramaphosa as he pledges to push for corruption-accused to ‘step aside’

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday reiterated that the ANC would not back down on its decision that leaders accused of corruption should step aside from their position as per a national conference resolution. This means the ANC national…

6,140 state officials fraudulently scored R41m from Covid-19 relief scheme: SIU

More than 6,000 government officials fraudulently benefited to the tune of R41m from the Unemployment Insurance Fund’s Covid-19 Temporary Employee Relief Scheme (Ters) benefit, parliament heard on Wednesday. The Special Investigating Unit…

Duduzane Zuma agrees with his father, former president Jacob Zuma, that the state capture commission has been politicised.Image: Felix Dlangamandla

Corruption in SA was not born in 2012, says Duduzane Zuma

Former president Jacob Zuma’s son, Duduzane, on Thursday said he agreed with his father that the state capture commission, led by deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo, has been politicised. Duduzane believed the commission was failing to…

Former public protector Thuli Madonsela says South Africans have to stop saying ‘we are going to deal with people and remove them from power once they have been found guilty in a criminal court’.Image: THULI DLAMINI

Thuli Madonsela urges SA not to wait for criminal courts to remove corrupt leaders from power

Former public protector Thuli Madonsela says South Africans should not wait for corrupt leaders to be found guilty in a court of law to remove them from power. Madonsela said this while participating as a panelist at a University of the…

President Cyril Ramaphosa presents the government’s economic recovery plan in parliament on Thursday.Image: ESA ALEXANDER/SUNDAY TIMES

State employees will stop getting tenders, Ramaphosa promises

President Cyril Ramaphosa told parliament that his administration would implement strict measures to bar political office bearers — such as ministers, mayors and MPs — from scoring government tenders. Ramaphosa made the undertaking before…

Former public protector Thuli Madonsela says South Africans have to stop saying ‘we are going to deal with people and remove them from power once they have been found guilty in a criminal court’.Image: THULI DLAMINI

‘A chance to start with a clean slate’: Thuli Madonsela urges SA to consider amnesty for the corrupt

“I think some people would self-disclose if they knew they would be given an opportunity to do so without dire consequences.” There are the words of former public protector Thuli Madonsela, who is urging South Africans to consider…

FED UP: These workers, expressing their grievances outside the Port Elizabeth City Hall, were among those who joined the national one-day strike action on WednesdayImage: WERNER HILLS

‘Covid crooks must face murder, attempted murder charges’

Bay union leaders call for action on PPE corruption, jobs crisis, lack of wage increases during one-day national strike Those implicated in Covid-19 corruption should also face murder and attempted murder charges as thousands of people…

IMPLICATED: The tuition fees payment for Refiloe Mokoena’s daughter was arranged via Ace Magashule’s office when he was premier of the Free State Picture: ALON SKUY

‘Gupta ally Refiloe Mokoena shared in asbestos loot via Ace Magashule’

TimesLIVE Mawande AmaShabalala Premier’s office got tenderpreneur to pay acting judge – report A former acting judge and alleged Gupta enabler, Refiloe Mokoena, benefited from the proceeds of the controversial Free State asbestos audit…

Police are investigating the hijacking of a truck and the theft of six pallets of painkillers in Port Elizabeth early on Wednesday.Image: ELVIS NTOMBELA

Hawks raid second Eastern Cape municipality

The Alfred Nzo district municipality was again under police investigation when the Hawks raided its EmaXesibeni offices on Friday. The search-and-seizure operation was to secure critical documents linked to a R36m fraud and corruption…