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Molefe exposes Transnet's CEO
The role state capture has played in the current troubles facing Transnet was in dispute in Parliament on Tuesday as the state freight company's former CEO, now MK Party MP, Brian Molefe, challenged t...Published: 12 Sep 2024 at 06:58hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
Fired MK Party MPs kiss goodbye to jobs
The Western Cape High Court has ruled against 10 former uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party members of Parliament who were challenging their dismissal.The members were fired to make way for the seven ...Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 08:19hrs | 1164 | by Staff reporter
Revolt at MTN over CEO's 'female favourite'
An ugly battle is brewing at MTN over the direction Africa's biggest mobile network operator is taking under group CEO Ralph Mupita, with executives threatening to quit en masse over his leadership st...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 11:58hrs | 4573 | by Staff reporter
Zuma's MK Party brings big guns to NCOP
The uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party is planning to send a team of heavyweights as its new members in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) as early as this week.Sunday World revealed that forme...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 19:02hrs | 45 | by Mzilikazi wa Afrika
Brian Molefe might take Corruption Watch to the cleaners
Former Eskom and Transnet CEO Brian Molefe might take Corruption Watch (RF) NPC to the cleaners.The non-profit organisation last week filed a notice of withdrawal against Molefe to be declared...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 14:00hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Brian Molefe smeared by Corruption Watch?
The Pretoria High Court on Friday, 07 June 2024, announced the withdrawal of the case brought by the Oppenheimer-funded Corruption Watch against former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe and several high-ranking ...Published: 08 Jun 2024 at 15:00hrs | 36 | 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 | 14 | by Staff reporter
Rise of fake degree phenomenon
IN Zimbabwe, there has been a growing distasteful trend of people who have forged their qualifications, especially certificates, diplomas, bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees.With an unem...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 19:29hrs | 1 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
What Zondo's Commission did not want South Africa to know
An explosive affidavit that turned the state capture narrative on its head never made it to the final report of the state capture commission of inquiry or was even considered by Chief Justice Raymond ...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
nZondo Commission 'a useful distraction' from South Africa's pressing problems
Many South Africans have already drawn their conclusions regarding the judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, corruption and fraud in the Public Sector, including Organs of ...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 19:50hrs | 1 | by Sipho Seepe
Zondo ignores dirt on Ramaphosa
MORE than R1 billion later and after eight million pages of documentary evidence, 75 000 pages of transcribed oral evidence and over 800 witnesses, the final chapter of the Commission of inquiry into ...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 11:50hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Ramaphosa knew about Glencore corruption'
Former Eskom chief executive Matshela Koko said he was consulting lawyers about igniting fresh investigations into President Cyril Ramaphosa-linked Glencore and its dirty deals at the power utility....Published: 31 May 2022 at 13:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Politicians are fuelling hate crimes
ONLY hate and barbarism could have produced the sort of spectacle the world witnessed a few weeks ago when a baying mob of South Africans moved from house to house in Johannesburg's Diepsloot slum to ...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:37hrs | 1 | by Addy Kudita
Aaron Motsoaledi tells Zimbabwean man to leave very peacefully
A man was thrown out of the meeting between the government and residents of Diepsloot as tempers flared soon after he introduced himself as a Zimbabwean communist party representative.Emotions...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 19:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
2021 marks four wasted years under Cyril Ramaphosa
Concluding his tour of four African countries in Dakar, President Cyril Ramaphosa told reporters that challenges faced by his administration in 2021 "combined to create just a catastrophic year"....Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 14:16hrs | 11 | by Professor Sipho Seepe
Katsande on his way out of Kaizer Chiefs
FORMER Warriors' midfielder Willard Katsande appears to be on his way out of Kaizer Chiefs after 10 years of service.And his imminent departure has divided opinion on social media since the ne...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 16:15hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
State capture: The hunters have become the hunted
The opening statement by former Eskom chief executive, Brian Molefe, testifying at the Zondo Commission into State Capture triggered a seismic shift whose political implications are far and wide....Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 11:42hrs | 4 | by Professor Sipho Seepe
Brian Molefe fingers Cyril Ramaphosa for Eskom's problems
Former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe on Friday took aim at President Cyril Ramaphosa, blaming him for having been part of the problems the state-owned power utility faces today.According to Molefe, w...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 20:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
When Excellencies grace Chitungwiza shebeen
What a couple of weeks of diplomatic intrigue.Epoch-making, maybe.Hallelujah! Praise be to the living God!We had desperately reckless American diplomats abandoning their airy a...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:37hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
South African tycoon's invasion of Zimbabwe analysed
Matshela Koko served as acting CEO of South African power utility ESKOM, he has been awarded a contract to produce 100MW of solar-generated power in Gwanda. This comes on the back of a project that wa...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 13:06hrs | | by Nicholas Ncube
SA Church ordered to solemnise gay and lesbian marriages by court
The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has found that the Dutch Reformed Church's policy against solemnising same-sex marriages, diminished the integrity of gay congregants.Judges Sulette Potteril...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 14:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
$400m NRZ deal set to top Mnangagwa - Ramaphosa talks
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) US$400 million deal will be one of the key items on the agenda during the South Africa-Zimbabwe bi-national commission meetings when South African President Cyr...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
NRZ defends Transnet deal
National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has allayed fears that it might have entered into a questionable deal with Transnet, following the issuing of suspension notices to three top officials who were all...Published: 27 Aug 2018 at 13:04hrs | | by Staff Report
Ndebele invasion no excuse for Gukurahundi, otherwise Shona people must leave Zimbabwe too
Everytime the victims of Gukurahundi demand respect, someone is quick to equate Gukurahundi to Ndebele invasion of 1830. Our society goes round the World professing to be highly educated, but, they ca...Published: 05 Jan 2018 at 07:32hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri
'Ancestors say I'm too ugly to die'
FOR 10 years, madala Samuel Molefe (75) from Orlando East in Soweto has been praying to his ancestors to take him."But they won't let me die," he told Daily Sun."They come back in drea...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Molefe is no longer the CEO of Eskom
The Eskom Board has given effect to Minister Lynne Brown's directive to rescind its decision to re-instate Brian Molefe as group chief executive of Eskom."In giving effect to and on the basis ...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 16:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
ANC wants a judicial inquiry into state capture from 1994
Johannesburg - The African National Congress now wants a judicial commission of inquiry into state capture established without delay. ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said the propos...Published: 29 May 2017 at 15:10hrs | | by Mahlatse Gallens, News24
Zuma roundly defeats his ANC opponents
President Jacob Zuma is a winner.He roundly defeated his opponents at a meeting of the African National Congress' national executive committee over the weekend, threatening those challenging h...Published: 29 May 2017 at 08:50hrs | | by huffingtonpost
ANC leaders seek Zuma ouster
President Jacob Zuma faces a key battle for his political survival this weekend when senior members of his ruling party say they'll push for its decision-making National Executive Committee to order h...Published: 25 May 2017 at 09:19hrs | 1 | by Mike Cohen and Paul Vecchiatto, Bloomberg
Mugabe on SA hit man's assassination list
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and three South African ministers were the most prominent names on a list of people South African Elvis Ramosebudi allegedly wanted to assassinate, affidavits produced in court...Published: 06 May 2017 at 12:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
ANC leaders approve Gordhan's removal - ANN7
The top six of South Africa's ruling African National Congress party have approved the removal of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, ANN7 television reported on Tuesday, citing sources.ANC S...Published: 28 Mar 2017 at 12:27hrs | | by Reuters
Zimbabwe-born actor Leroy Gopal ties the knot in SA
Zimbabwe-born actor Leroy Gopal has tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend Keletso Molefe. Gopal, who is best-known for featuring in a local movie, Yellow Card, in 2000, before heading...Published: 06 Mar 2017 at 16:14hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Do we need white supervision and tutelage?
Economic power in South Africa still resides in the hands of those who benefited from apartheid, in white hands, Eskom CEO Brian Molefe explains in a speech he made at a TNA Business briefing on Wedne...Published: 30 Nov 2016 at 12:51hrs | | by Brian Molefe
Brian Molefe on a mission to defeat the 'demon of racism and exploitation'
Outgoing Eskom CEO Brian Molefe has called on South Africans to stop being distracted by those wanting "to see black people fail" and instead focus on defeating the "demon of racism and exploitati...Published: 30 Nov 2016 at 12:27hrs | | by Matthew le Cordeur
Mphoko outfox Mugabe
Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko seem to have dribbled past President Robert Mugabe on the $350 million loan deal between the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) and Botswana’s Capital...Published: 18 Jul 2016 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos as angry squatters burn buses, loot spazas!
COMMUTERS and spaza owners in Soshanguve, Tshwane were caught in the middle of a protest yesterday morning.They were forced to join the residents of New Eersterus Extension squatter camp, who ...Published: 02 Feb 2016 at 13:58hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Poo torments SA businessman
A 49-year-old Soweto man in South Africa is apparently afraid of opening his post box after being tormented with poo mixed with muthi.According to Daily Sun, at first smelly poo was spla...Published: 28 Aug 2015 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Daily Sun
Utokoloshi uhlukuluza isalukazi emacansini
KULENINA elileminyaka engu-62 elihlala eMamelodi eTshwane kweleSouth Africa eseliveze ukuthi kulabotokoloshi abalibamba ngamandla ukuya emacansini lalo.Inina leli elaziwa ngokuthi ngu-Dora...Published: 23 Feb 2015 at 17:13hrs | | by Umlobi
Prophet Magaya's alleged chief usher commits suicide in Botswana prison
A Zimbabwean woman identified as a chief usher with the Harare based Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries church led by Prophet Walter Magaya was last week reportedly found dead at the ...Published: 28 Oct 2014 at 15:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We can't think like Africans,' says Zuma
South African President Jacob Zuma torched a diplomatic storm on Monday over his comments urging South Africans not to think like Africans in Africa, with critics saying such talk fed xenophobia that ...Published: 23 Oct 2013 at 04:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's dangerous robber and jail breaker arrested in Botswana
One of the three dangerous convicts who recently escaped from Gaborone Central Prison has been arrested.Zimbabwean born Shadreck Noel Tsoko was caught at Somerset Extension location in Botswan...Published: 29 Jun 2013 at 14:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare off to a winning start
Dynamos 3 - 0 Lesotho Correctional ServicesUGANDAN international Boban Zirintusa scored on his Dynamos debut as the Harare giants cruised to an easy Champions League preliminary round, first ...Published: 18 Feb 2013 at 06:02hrs | | by Sports reporter
Two Zim robbers in Botswana prison escape
Two Zimbabweans have bolted out of a prison in Francistown Botswana. The two, 35 year-old Maxwell Nduku, who is serving his time in prison for robbery and 29-year old Edison Maphorisa who had been rem...Published: 22 Jan 2013 at 14:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim rapist on the run after escaping from Botswana Prison
A Zimbabwean who bolted from a Botswana prison a week ago is still on the run.Amos Moyo escaped from Molepolole Prison together with seven others. Four have been captured while the rest are st...Published: 16 Jan 2013 at 18:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
SABC senior official suspended for giving Malema too much air time
Johannesburg - The SABC has placed group chief executive of news, Phil Molefe, on special leave after apparently defying senior executives’ orders to stop givin...Published: 11 Apr 2012 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man hangs son (4) after a fight with the boy's mother & neighbours
A NORTH West community in South Africa is reeling in shock following the gruesome hanging of a four-year-old boy by his father after a fight with the boy's mother and neighbours, who had tried to calm...Published: 16 Jan 2012 at 13:31hrs | | by sowetanlive
ZAPU To Split Before General Elections.
Zapu is sleep walking into Thamsanqa Zhou's trap. Yesterday the internet was awash with emails of what a Maphosa called a Resolution to Recall Dr Mguni the Secretary General of ZAPU. Today all...Published: 16 Dec 2011 at 07:57hrs | | by Nqobile Sibanda
Who killed Zapu in the UK?
Zapu in the UK is dead, the final straw was the All Stakeholders meeting held in Leicester on the 10th December 2011. This is an honest analysis and diagnosis of what has...Published: 14 Dec 2011 at 12:51hrs | | by Nqobile Sibanda
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