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LPC led by Pule Seleka weaponised to deal with Dali Mpofu SC?
The Pan-African Bar Association of South Africa (PABASA) issued a stern warning to the Legal Practice Council (LPC), cautioning the regulatory body to resist attempts to weaponise disciplinary proceed...Published: 23 Apr 2025 at 08:46hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
King Dalindyebo's wife quits EFF
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has suffered another blow with the resignation of prominent member Nolubabalo "Babsie" Mcinga, who has stepped down from her position in the National Council of Pro...Published: 19 Nov 2024 at 15:08hrs | 1195 | by Staff reporter
Julius Malema's EFF implodes
South Africa's radical opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), appears to be on a downward spiral after another high-profile member defected to ex-President Jacob Zuma's party.D...Published: 09 Nov 2024 at 20:43hrs | 2194 | by Staff reporter
Another EFF MP has called it quits
Fana Mokoena has resigned four months after he was sworn-in as an MP in the seventh parliament."He has resigned," confirmed parliament spokesperson Moloto Mothapo on Thursday.Mokoena d...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 15:52hrs | 1866 | by Staff reporter
Ngcukaitobi says Mkhwebane 'not entitled to R10m gratuity'
There is no legal basis on which former public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is entitled to receive a gratuity payment as she was removed from office before her term expired, advocate Tembeka Ngcukaito...Published: 21 Aug 2024 at 07:31hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Malema and EFF will survive
Since its inception, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has waged and survived many political battles with Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu side by side, until last week when Shivambu dumped the EFF ...Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 21:03hrs | 791 | by Staff reporter
Mkhwebane and Carl Niehaus refute claims they are ditching the EFF
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) members Carl Niehaus and Busisiwe Mkhwebane have refuted claims that they were leaving the party after news emerged today that Floyd Shivambu has resigned from the part...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 13:47hrs | 528 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa leaves to attend SA President's inauguration
President Mnangagwa departed from Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in Harare on Tuesday afternoon to attend the inauguration of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria, schedule...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa leaves to attend SA President's inauguration
President Mnangagwa departed from Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in Harare on Tuesday afternoon to attend the inauguration of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria, schedule...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa wipes out political opponents
President Cyril Ramaphosa seems to have wiped out his political opponents by what many deem is the use of state organs to fight political battles. Arrests seem to have dampened the energy of the "RET ...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 05:10hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Busisiwe Mkhwebane merely annoyed agents of white monopoly capital
In my view, both Tina Joemat-Pettersson (may her soul repose peacefully) and Busisiwe Mkhwebane are victims of a system that lives off the subjugation of women, where women are treated very differentl...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 17:18hrs | 2 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
'Ace Magashule may be gone, but divisions in the ANC will mount'
The expulsion of Ace Magashule from the ANC is likely to divide the ruling party further, according to a political analyst.The former Free State premier was officially shown the door on Monday...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 17:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka's Phala Phala farm robbery investigator managed by Ramaphosa' people
One of the Public Protector investigators probing the Phala Phala farm robbery is allegedly being managed by two people on behalf of President Cyril Ramaphosa.The investigator, whose name is k...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 17:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Judges question Ramaphosa's timing in suspending Public Protector
Judges in the Western Cape High Court have questioned President Cyril Ramaphosa's timing in suspending Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane.Mkhwebane has accused the president of suspending her...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 20:49hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa thrown under the bus by Wally Rhoode
In his response to the Public Protector, President Cyril Ramaphosa's head of Presidential Protection Service, Wally Rhoode, has revealed the roles allegedly played by the President and his Namibian co...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 12:40hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
'Captured' SA's Acting Public Protector to withdraw Mkhwebane's court applications
Acting Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka who some sections of the SA society allege is captured by President Cyril Ramaphosa, indicated that the Office of the Public Protector will withdraw the suspend...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 09:16hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Captured judiciary: No evidence that ConCourt judges, staff leaked info about Mkhwebane's case
There is no evidence that somebody within the Constitutional Court gave confidential information to Ismail Abramjee concerning public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's application before that court....Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 19:06hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Busisiwe Mkhwebane off to court to challenge unlawful and hurried suspension
The legal showdown between suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane and President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to continue.This time Mkhwebane wants the Cape Town high court to set aside her su...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 19:00hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mapisa-Nqakula rejects UDM, ATM request for Parly probe into Ramaphosa
National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has declined requests by the United Democratic Movement (UDM) and the African Transformation Movement (ATM) for a parliamentary probe into allegations...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Conflicted Ramaphosa stands by his decision to suspend Mkhwebane
President Cyril Ramaphosa says he stands by the decision to suspend Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, pending an inquiry into her fitness to hold office.The embattled Public Protector on Tu...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 08:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa suspends Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane for investigating his Phala Phala loot
Embattled South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has suspended Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane from the office of the Public Protector.Mkhwebane was suspended effective from 9 June 2022, the pres...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 16:24hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Charges against Busisiwe Mkhwebane 'frivolous and contrived'
Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, who stands accused of perjury, on Thursday indicated through her lawyer that she wants to have the three charges against her withdrawn.In a short appearanc...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 09:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa to be impeached over ANC's Zimbabwe trip?
Even when President Cyril Ramaphosa was satisfied with Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula's explanation of the ANC's use of the state aircraft for party purposes in Zimbabwe, the president and m...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa, Mapisa-Nqakula cross swords over ANC trip to Zimbabwe?
President Cyril Ramaphosa wants a detailed report, within 48 hours, from Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula after an ANC delegation accompanied her to Zimbabwe on a SA N...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
AfriForum wants Public Protector to probe ANC's use of military jet for Zimbabwe trip
Lobby group AfriForum has written to Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, asking her to investigate the ANC's use of a military jet in its trip to Harare, Zimbabwe. In a letter to Mkhwebane, A...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 18:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics
The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citizens that have been reduced to the level o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 21:20hrs | 7 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Ramaphosa's integrity 'dented', says Snuki Zikalala
As former Bosasa chief Gavin Watson's family closes the chapter on his life, the ANC Veterans' League head Snuki Zikalala says President Cyril Ramaphosa "has to grow up" after his integrity was "dente...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 12:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's controversial donor killed in suspicious car crash
The CEO of a South African services firm linked to graft allegations and a controversial donation to President Cyril Ramaphosa's campaign to lead the governing African National Congress has died in a ...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
South African buffalo is nakéd, media goes on mute
The silence of the South African leadership on the ongoing revelations of gross corruption and subversion of good governance is treasonous. Since the damning findings of the Public Protector, Busisiwe...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 20:47hrs | | by Zanele Lwana
Cyril Ramaphosa panics
Reports from South Africa indicate that the country's President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa's lawyers have accused the public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane of unlawfully obtaining financial information fr...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 11:34hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Captured South Africa ConCourt fails the test: Who guards the judges?
The Constitutional Court may be the highest Court in the land. But it does not have a monopoly on what justice entails. The Court's pronouncement in the case involving the Public Protector raises conc...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 16:37hrs | 3 | by Professor Sipho Seepe
Dabengwa funded Ramaphosa's campaign with R500 000
Former MTN group CEO and Eskom board member Sifiso Dabengwa funded the South Africa President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa's campaign with a whopping R500 000. President Ramaphosa is accused of be...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 10:38hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Ramaphosa's donations from White Monopoly Capital must be made public'
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane wants President Cyril Ramaphosa to publish all the donations he had received during his 2017 ANC presidential campaign, finding he had breached the executive ethics...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 17:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa 'deliberately misled parliament'
South Africa’s Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane delivered a mortal blow to the reformist President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday.The findings against him are the very worst he could have expe...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 16:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Explosive 'Rogue Unit' exposée nails Pravin Gordhan
The Sunday Times reported that former SA Revenue Services (SARS) employee, Keletso Bizoski Manyike, told the publication that he was never a member of the so-called SARS "rogue unit". He was a witness...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 11:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Malema threatens to impeach Ramaphosa
South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Sello Malema has called upon President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa to come clean on his dealings with a company called Bosasa or risk being impeache...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 14:16hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nhlanhla Nene 'fired' as SA finance minister
Nhlanhla Nene has resigned as finance minister, the presidency announced on Tuesday.Tito Mboweni, a former Reserve Bank governor, will replace him as finance minister.The announcement ...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 15:53hrs | 3 | by TimesLive
ULoyiko takes the Shona Grand Plan to the Public Protector
ULoyiko has written a letter to the South African Public Protector requesting protection of the South African citizens from the impact of the Shona Grand Plan. For those new to the Grand Plan ...Published: 11 Nov 2017 at 09:31hrs | 6 | by Thulani Nkala
Black movement group picket big South African bank's outlets, 7 branches shutdown!
On 19 June 2017 the Public Protector Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane, found amongst others that the South African Government and the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) had failed to recover an amount of R3...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 20:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Thuli Madonsela must 'pay back the money!'
Former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela should pay back the money.Here's the story; In 2012, Thuli Madonsela's son Wanda, took his mom's beautiful X6 BMW on a joy ride.He picked up a f...Published: 07 Feb 2017 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Ferial Haffajee
Zuma reads Thuli Madonsela the riot act
President Jacob Zuma's son Edward has read former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela the riot act, saying she "should either become a full-time politician or just shut up".According to ...Published: 17 Jan 2017 at 10:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Madonsela apologise to Zuma for personal vendetta'
Former public protector Thuli Madonsela has cautioned President Jacob Zuma and others implicated in her State of Capture report not to make the same mistakes that were made with the Nkandla saga....Published: 13 Nov 2016 at 13:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kevin Malunga eliminated from SA Public Protector race
Cape Town - Five candidates will now be vying for the Public Protector position after a swift cutting down of the candidate list on Thursday, ...Published: 18 Aug 2016 at 21:24hrs | 2 | by Thulani Gqirana, News24 | News24
The full list of people in line for Madonsela's job
The full list of candidates who have been nominated for the post of Public Protector has been released.There will be 59 people vying to fill Public Protector Thuli Madonsela's shoes.Th...Published: 28 Jun 2016 at 18:18hrs | 2 | by news24
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