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Witness Protection Act changes available for public comment

KGAUGELO MASWENENG The department of justice and constitutional development has made recommendations on reforming the whistleblowing legislative landscape available for public comment by the minister of justice and correctional services,…

Finance minister Enoch Godongwana speaks during a pre-budget media briefing on Wednesday.Image: GCIS

Godongwana makes R426m available for state capture criminal cases

A senior National Treasury official has described the conduct of the Guptas and other companies who looted public funds as “treason” and says the government will stop at nothing to ensure their imprisonment. National Treasury deputy…

Makhosi Khoza says she resigned from the ANC after being persecuted for her anti-graft stance, particularly when she called for the head of then ANC boss Jacob Zuma over multiple corruption allegations. File picture.Image: SIPHIWE SIBEKO

State capture: Corruption is ANC’s ‘official policy’, claims Makhosi Khoza

If you are corrupt, an ANC member representing the party in any arm of the state, and protect those accused of corruption within the governing party, your political prospects look bright. But if you are the antithesis, rest assured that…

Former MEC of human settlements in the Free State Mosebenzi Zwane appeared at the state capture commission on Friday.Image: Sizwe Ndingane

Ace Magashule’s name looms large as state capture inquiry hears evidence on FS housing tenders

The name of former Free State premier Ace Magashule loomed large in the testimony of former human settlements MEC Mosebenzi Zwane on Friday at the commission of inquiry into state capture. Zwane on Friday denied a claim made by former…

SPILLING IDENTITIES Former board chair of SAA Dudu Myeni testified before the Zondo commission into state capture via video linkPicture: Gallo Images/Fani Mahuntsi

From ‘buying fat cakes’ to ‘killing your child’: How Myeni and Kwinana justified flawed SAA decision

TimesLIVE Mawande AmaShabalala What do former SAA board members Dudu Myeni and Yakhe Kwinana have in common? They love the use of extreme analogies to defend an apparently dodgy SAA contract. They did this while justifying why they backed…

EXPOSURE: Former SAA chair Dudu Myeni may be charged criminally for disobeying an order of the state capture commission chairperson

Dudu Myeni could be criminally charged for unmasking anonymous witness

TimesLIVES Mawande AmaShabalala The state capture commission legal team has urged its chairperson, deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo, to instruct the commission’s secretary to lay a criminal charge against former SAA chairperson Dudu…

DEFIANCE: The application brought by the inquiry’s legal team for the issuing of the summons against Mr Zuma was  issued on October 9, with or without his legal representativesPicture: Alon Skuy

State capture: Summons issued against Jacob Zuma to appear before commission

TimesLIVE Nomahlubi Jordaan Deputy chief justice and chairperson of the state capture inquiry, Raymond Zondo, has granted an order authorising the issuing of a summons for former president Jacob Zuma’s appearance. On Friday the commission…

Senior ANC MP Cedric Frolick received various “birthday gifts” from Cheeky Watson, brother of the former Bosasa boss Gavin, the state capture inquiry heard on Friday.Image: Gallo Images / Beeld / Nasief Manie

‘I only received gifts, not money’ – ANC MP Cedric Frolick claps back on Bosasa allegations

A desktop computer, shirts, shoes and a belt – these were items received by senior ANC MP Cedric Frolick as “birthday gifts” from Cheeky Watson, brother of the former Bosasa boss Gavin, the state capture inquiry heard on Friday. Frolick…

Former SAA chair Dudu Myeni was allegedly also running Eskom through a back door. File photoImage: ESA ALEXANDER/THE TIMES

Former SAA board chair Dudu Myeni ‘ran Eskom’ from Jacob Zuma’s house

The state capture inquiry on Tuesday heard how controversial former SAA board chair Dudu Myeni knew intimate details about the inner workings of Eskom, and suggested solutions to fix the power utility despite not being in its employ. This…

Former Transnet CEO Brian Molefe. A former bodyguard to Molefe told the state capture commission of a bag mysteriously stuffed with R200 notes.Image: Alon Skuy

State capture: Brian Molefe and the backpack stuffed with R200 notes

A former bodyguard to former Transnet CEO Brian Molefe on Thursday told the state capture inquiry how he once found a backpack belonging to Molefe, half-full with bundles of R200 notes. The bodyguard — whose identity was masked and named…

State capture inquiry chair deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo.Image: Alaister Russell

State capture: Former human settlements DG explains why CEO paid R600,000 for his Range Rover

There was nothing untoward when the owner of a company that scored as part of a R225m contract to audit and assess houses with asbestos roofs paid R600,000 towards the Range Rover belonging to the former director-general of the national…

President Cyril Ramaphosa.Image: GCIS

Police can now access state capture inquiry evidence as Ramaphosa changes the rules

Evidence and testimony presented at the state capture inquiry can now be accessed by law-enforcement agencies. In a gazette published on Tuesday, President Cyril Ramaphosa effected the change, which potentially opens greater chances of…

Judge Tintswalo Nana Makhubele failed to appear at the state capture inquiry on Friday because she was ‘suffering trauma’ after she lost control of her vehicle when a tyre burst.Image: GroundUp/Judges Matter

Judge implicated in Prasa ‘corruption’ a no-show at state capture inquiry

Judge Tintswalo Makhubele, who was expected to give evidence relating to allegations of corruption at the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa), was a no show at the state capture inquiry on Friday. Makhubele sent her legal counsel,…

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WATCH: Crime Intelligence ‘slush fund’: All you need to know about those implicated

The state capture inquiry has heard evidence over the past few weeks about a Crime Intelligence ‘slush fund’ used for non-state purposes. Former Crime Intelligence officer Col Dhanajaya Naidoo and Hawks investigator Kobus Roelofse have…

Jacob Zuma’s testimony on state capture in twelve quotes: ‘Did I auction Table Mountain?’

Former president Jacob Zuma on Monday appeared before the state capture commission‚ headed by deputy chief justice Zondo to respond to allegations levelled against him on corruption‚ state capture and his relationship with the Guptas.…