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Mineral resources and energy minister Gwede Mantashe is implicated in the state capture report. File photo.Image: Freddy Mavunda

Four big names implicated in volume 3 of the state capture report

Former president Jacob Zuma, mineral resources and energy minister Gwede Mantashe, former minister Nomvula Mokonyane and late Bosasa CEO Gavin Watson are among the prominent names implicated in the third volume of the state capture…

Police minister Bheki Cele has arrived in KwaZulu-Natal amid speculation about former president Jacob Zuma’s arrest. File photo.Image: GCIS

Police minister Bheki Cele arrives in KZN as Zuma arrest deadline looms

Police minister Bheki Cele has arrived in KwaZulu-Natal as the deadline for the arrest of former president Jacob Zuma looms. Cele was mandated by the Constitutional Court to ensure Zuma is taken into custody by the end of Wednesday to…

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday outlined the outcomes from the ANC NEC meeting held at the weekend.Image: FILE/ KEVIN SUTHERLAND

IN QUOTES | From corruption to Zuma’s letter — seven responses from Ramaphosa on NEC outcomes

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday outlined the outcomes from the ANC NEC meeting held at the weekend. The meeting followed his scathing seven-page open letter in which he asked party members to desist from corruption. In the letter,…

Tito Mboweni was here for a fight on Monday night.Image: Sunday Times/Esa Alexander

Attacks on ANC, 9 years of destruction & ‘intelligence files’: Tito Mboweni’s lit Twitter rant

Finance minister Tito Mboweni is topping the trends list on Twitter, not for his cooking skills or shoes, but a late-night rant about “attacks on the ANC”. The comments were made in a series of posts late on Monday night, just after…

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Secrecy over Ramaphosa’s ‘generous donors’ a betrayal to voters, says Zuma

Former president Jacob Zuma has labelled the sealing of records revealing the donors behind Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC presidency bid as a betrayal to the party. Zuma made the accusation in an 11-page letter he wrote to Ramaphosa on Friday in…

Duduzane Zuma has voiced his support for Zandile Gumede, who along with 17 others has been charged with corruption and fraud to the tune of R430m. She is on bail of R50,000.Image: ALON SKUY/THE TIMES

WATCH | ‘Keep pushing the envelope’: Duduzane Zuma congratulates Zandile Gumede on MPL appointment

Former president Jacob Zuma’s son, Duduzane Zuma, has thrown his weight behind Zandile Gumede, who has been accused of corruption. In a viral video shared on social media at the weekend, Zuma congratulated Gumede on her redeployment as an…

Former president Jacob Zuma.Image: File

Jacob Zuma tweets apology for calling Derek Hanekom ‘enemy agent’

Former president Jacob Zuma has tweeted an apology for claiming on the social media platform in 2019 that former minister Derek Hanekom was a “known enemy agent”. Zuma lost a bid to challenge an earlier court ruling, that found he had…

Jacob and Duduzane Zuma have the streets buzzing with their controversial ‘Zooming with Zumas’ YouTube show. This time around the former president had a go at the SACP.Image: THULI DLAMINI

‘The alliance just exists in name’: Jacob Zuma takes a dig at Communist Party

Former president Jacob Zuma has taken a swipe at the SACP, accusing it of losing sight of its mission to fight for socialism. This was in part five of the Zooming with Zumas YouTube show, which was released on Thursday. According to Zuma,…

Former president Jacob Zuma’s lawyers have filed court papers applying for a permanent stay of prosecution.Image: Thuli Dlamini

Jacob Zuma files papers saying why he shouldn’t face criminal charges

The National Prosecuting Authority has confirmed that lawyers for former president Jacob Zuma are “in the process of filing” his application for a permanent stay of his corruption prosecution in Durban. NPA KwaZulu-Natal spokesperson…

Malema’s grand new scheme for Nkandla

Julius Malema has launched a new project on the former president Jacob Zuma. He said the party would start to campaign to take Zuma’s Nkandla home and make it a TVET college to benefit the South Africans. Malema was speaking to the…