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Ramaphosa's ANC wants spousal and relative's visas done away with
Spousal and relative's visas should be done away with because the system is being "abused by foreign nationals" to settle in SA, the ANC has said in an additional discussion document distributed to de...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 18:53hrs | 7374 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa goes after ANC's Pule Mabe
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is probing a company with alleged links to ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe over a waste picking tender it scored in 2017.This comes after President Cyril Ramaph...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 07:54hrs | 8439 | by Staff reporter
Dangers of Arab Spring in South Africa
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki recently launched a sharp critique of the governing African National Congress (ANC) for failure to address what it has labelled the triple challenge of pover...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:15hrs | 682 | by Sandy Africa
South Africa to replace Zimbabwe as an importer of electricity from Mozambique and Zambia
Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., the South African state-owned power utility, is looking to replace Zimbabwe as an importer of electricity from Mozambique and Zambia to help ease rolling blackouts.Zim...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:55hrs | 2876 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe exemption permit saga: SA Home Affairs facing fresh lawsuit as another challenger enters fray
The Department of Home Affairs is facing another lawsuit relating to the looming termination of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP).The ZEP is a special dispensation permit established more ...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 06:45hrs | 5676 | 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 | 937 | 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 | 11408 | by Staff reporter
New ANC KZN leadership could spell trouble for Ramaphosa second term
The ANC has elected new leaders in the key region of KwaZulu-Natal, though it remains unclear whether the new collective will back President Cyril Ramaphosa's bid to win a second term as head of the p...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 10:11hrs | 1747 | by Staff reporter
South Africa piles more misery on Zimbabweans
SOUTH Africa has piled fresh pressure on Zimbabweans living in that country to return home after Pretoria's Social Development minister Lindiwe Zulu said nations need to take care of their citizens....Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:43hrs | 6753 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa ally says Zimbabweans should be in their home
ZIMBABWEANS should be in their home country and all nations "need to take responsibility of their citizens" a South African cabinet minister and senior ruling African National Congress (ANC) party off...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:20hrs | 8388 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's office planned to get Advocate Teffo off Meyiwa murder trial
"On the 28th of April when I was arrested before your court, that was a plan, and the plan was hatched in the office of the president - the number one office in the country," said Teffo.H...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 08:09hrs | 1537 | 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 | 739 | by Staff reporter
Criminal charges against Raymond Zondo
Former Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) CEO Lucky Montana has vowed to lay criminal charges against Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, accusing him of "deliberate" violation of the law, abuse of power, "...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 17:31hrs | 4815 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa 'liable' in Marikana mine massacre debacle, says judge
President Cyril Ramaphosa might be liable in the 2012 Lonmin mine disastrous strike, the South Gauteng High Court ruled in an application by workers seeking compensation against the president and mine...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 16:20hrs | 2285 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's 'plot' to kill the ANC
SOME senior ANC leaders have accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of working with external parties to collapse the governing party and replace it with a centre-right coalition led by him after the 2024 g...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 19:46hrs | 2668 | by Staff reporter
SA's Zimbabwe exemption permit scheme is a money racket and a ‘fraud'
The Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) scheme is the "largest case of fraud and theft ever committed by the government of one country over nationals of its neighbouring country in African history", accor...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 07:02hrs | 5007 | by Staff reporter
Pan-African Parliament caucus nominates Zimbabwe's Charumbira
The Pan-African Parliament Southern African caucus yesterday officially nominated Chiefs Council president, Fortune Charumbira, as their sole candidate to contest as president of the continental legis...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:41hrs | 374 | 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 | 403 | by Sipho Seepe
South Africa's moonlighting President has a serious constitutional case to answer
Our rudderless President Cyril Ramaphosa has been exposed not only for his lack of leadership, but also for his gross misunderstanding of the country's Constitution.We all know that he was a v...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 12:01hrs | 345 | by Paul Ngobeni
Cyril Ramaphosa is an agent of imperialism and white monopoly capital
On the 8 July 2021, I was arrested in front of the Estcourt prison where President Jacob Zuma was illegally imprisoned because of a travesty of justice committed by the Constitutional Court (CC)....Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 11:53hrs | 1020 | by Carl Niehaus
DD Mabuza says 'You flush me, you also flush Cyril Ramaphosa out'
Deputy President David Mabuza has dispelled rumours that he might be gunning for the ANC presidency in December and has affirmed his support for President Cyril Ramaphosa.Mabuza, who was in Ph...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 09:43hrs | 3018 | by Staff reporter
Fears expressed over Zimbabwe Extension Permit cancellation
Zimbabwean expatriates are scrambling to apply for a visa to continue living in South Africa after their Zimbabwe Extension Permits (ZEP) expired in December.If they are unsuccessful, in some ...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 09:02hrs | 2932 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa and associates implicated in violating international money transfer rules of the US
As the controversy rages on over the origins of the millions of US dollars stashed at President Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm, it has been revealed that the head of state and those close to him m...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 20:21hrs | 1444 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Motsepe tries to protect his money laundering accused brother in-law
Business mogul and also President of CAF, Patrice Motsepe, says it is good that politicians, business people and other influential people are being scrutinised by both the media and the public as all ...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 11:59hrs | 1534 | by Staff reporter
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 | 730 | by Staff reporter
Crime Intelligence funds used for Ramaphosa's Phala Phala 'farmgate' cover-up
A secret Crime Intelligence fund was used to finance the clandestine operations set up to trace the thieves who stole millions of dollars from President Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm in February ...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 10:31hrs | 667 | by Mzilikazi Wa Afrika
Ramaphosa has a serious constitutional case to answer
Our rudderless President Cyril Ramaphosa has been exposed not only for his lack of leadership, but also for his gross misunderstanding of the country's Constitution.We all know that he was a v...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 09:26hrs | 696 | by Paul Ngobeni
Zuma wants Zondo probed
Former South Africa President Jacob Zuma has instructed his legal team to take the State Capture Commission report on review. According to JG Zuma Foundation spokesperson Mzwanele Manyi, Zuma ...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 19:42hrs | 1244 | by Staff reporter
Donations to Ramaphosa' CR17 campaign linked to State capture?
Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has criticised President Cyril Ramaphosa for accepting donations from Bosasa and other undisclosed donors despite his denials that he did not know.In Part 5 Volume ...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 07:58hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
Animal rights body takes swipe at Ramaphosa
Anyone involved in trophy hunting has some level of moral disconnect, so the fact that President Cyril Ramaphosa was potentially involved in other crimes was not surprising.This is the view of...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 08:37hrs | 1949 | by Staff reporter
Shamila Batohi afraid to hold Ramaphosa accountable for Phala Phala Farmgate
THE National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Shamila Batohi has a wonderful reputation but has been given a poisoned chalice. Batohi has had to withstand repeated requests from powerful politic...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 14:23hrs | 457 | by Ray Solomons
FBI roped in to investigate 'money laundering' at Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm
The burglary, which happened in February 2020, came to light earlier this month when former spy boss Arthur Fraser laid criminal charges against Ramaphosa.He claims $4 million was taken from t...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 14:19hrs | 904 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa may have to consider the prospects of donning orange overalls
AS EMBATTLED President Cyril Ramaphosa fights for his political life in the build-up to the ANC national conference at the end of this year, he might also have to consider his fashion sense with the p...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 14:06hrs | 1040 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa delays Zondo's final report?
The office of the Presidency, in the early hours of Tuesday morning, issued a statement denying that President Cyril Ramaphosa ‘has, in any manner, interfered with the work of the commission or the ...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 10:19hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's NPA snubbed Namibian police over Phala Phala robbery
South African authorities allegedly gave the Namibian police the silent treatment to frustrate their investigation into suspects linked to the robbery at President Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm....Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 11:12hrs | 1258 | 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 | 714 | 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 | 613 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa bars media from Phala Phala farm 'crime scene'
There was a heavy police presence outside President Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm on Saturday where some of his livestock was on auction.Police in uniform and civilian clothes were statio...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 16:18hrs | 1940 | by Staff reporter
Arthur Fraser's sworn affidavit rocks Ramaphosa's camp, why did Zondo deny him chance to testify?
STARTLING revelations by former State Security Agency (SSA) director-general, Arthur Fraser, in an affidavit deposed to the South African Police Services (SAPS), about an undisclosed sum of money, bel...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 12:34hrs | 4106 | by Sizwe Dlamini
Zondo fails to deliver final sections of the report from the state capture inquiry on time
The presidency has not received the final sections of the controversial report from the state capture inquiry, it said on Friday morning.The final instalment was, by court order, meant to be d...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 12:24hrs | 788 | by Staff reporter
Malema threatens to leak video with Ramaphosa counting hard cash in a plane
Economic Freedom Fighters leader, Julius Malema, alleges that there is video depicting president Cyril Ramaphosa counting hard cash in a plane which could be leaked soon. Malema has addressed EFF supp...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 11:03hrs | 2000 | by Staff reporter
Namibian police accuse SA authorities of not cooperating in Ramaphosa farm theft matter
Namibian police have accused South African authorities of not cooperating in the crime that was committed at President Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm in Limpopo.It is alleged that Namibian...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 11:02hrs | 479 | by Staff reporter
Tito Mboweni says, 'the big tree collapsed!'
Tito Mboweni who stepped down as South Africa's finance minister as President Cyril Ramaphosa carried out a cabinet reshuffle in the fallout from the worst unrest in the country's democratic history h...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 10:40hrs | 6660 | by Staff reporter
Arthur Fraser piles pressure on Ramaphosa over Farmgate scandal
Former spy boss Arthur Fraser says he met with the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) on Wednesday to help with their investigation into his complaints against President Cyril Ramaph...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 18:10hrs | 1932 | by Staff reporter
Motion tabled in Parliament to probe Ramaphosa's Farmgate scandal
Leader of the African Transformation Movement (ATM), Vuyo Zungula, has tabled an official motion requesting Parliament to investigate President Cyril Ramaphosa's possible involvement in the concealmen...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 08:29hrs | 821 | 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 | 278 | 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 | 732 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa is no James Bond, it will end in tears
Cyril Ramaphosa's silence in the aftermath of his #FarmGate saga is worrying for South Africa's democracy.It's not just that he is on mute but also the manner in which he continues to evade an...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 18:59hrs | 1573 | by Ray Solomons
Ramaphosa, Geingob discussed 'Phalaphalagate' - report
A JUNE 2020 report compiled by Namibia's former head of the police's criminal investigations directorate, commissioner Nelius Becker, indicates that presidents Hage Geingob and Cyril Ramaphosa were in...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 18:17hrs | 2909 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Pro whites group launch project to help secure South Africa's Beitbridge border
Afrikaner rights organisation, AfriForum has launched a new project to help secure South Africa's borders, this comes after South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa allowed vigilante groups to oper...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 09:16hrs | 3520 | by Staff reporter
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