Author: Boitumelo Kgobotlo

Business

State-owned companies’ debt to peak in 2026/27

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana says the debt of major state-owned companies is expected to peak at R26.2-billion in 2027/28. He explained that these companies’... Read more.
Business

Unemployment growing faster than job creation

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has highlighted the widening gap between job creation and employment as there are more unemployed people than jobs that have been... Read more.
Joburg residents to pay 12.74% more for electricity, 13.9% for water
Politics

R54bn revitalisation funding for metro municipalities

Government unlocked R54-billion performance-based funding for metro municipalities to improve infrastructure and service delivery over the next six years. This metro... Read more.
Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP), Adv Shamila Batohi says she overestimated her office's ability to swiftly handle state capture cases
Politics

Parliament grills Shamila Batohi over Phala Phala case

The unresolved questions around the Phala Phala farm scandal took centre stage on Tuesday as National Director for Public Prosecutions Shamila Batohi told Members... Read more.
Shamila Batohi gets grilled by MPs
Politics

Shamila Batohi under fire over prosecutor ‘involved’ in organised crime

Shamila Batohi, the national director for public prosecutions, has come under fire for not naming a prosecutor who is allegedly connected to organised crime. Batohi... Read more.
Matlala ready to testify
Politics

Vusi Matlala ad hoc committee testimony could be heard in safe facility in Pretoria

The parliamentary ad hoc committee plans to hear the testimony from alleged Big Five cartel member Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala for the last three days of the inquiry... Read more.
Parties name their candidates for metors
Politics

ActionSA’s Xolani Khumalo sworn in as Ekurhuleni councillor: ‘We’ll clean out looters’

Xolani Khumalo, the ActionSA mayoral candidate for Ekurhuleni, was sworn in as a council member on Monday, vowing to start the battle to repair the problematic metro... Read more.
Zuma-Sambudla in court for inciting violence
Politics

Jacob Zuma Foundation accuses state of waging political war on Duduzile

The Jacob G Zuma Foundation is claiming that the 2021 July unrest incitement case against former president Jacob Zuma’s daughter, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, is driven... Read more.
No one punished for looting at Tembisa Hospital
Politics

No action taken to blacklist firms implicated in R2bn looting at Tembisa Hospital

Despite public outrage over the R2-billion looting uncovered at Tembisa Hospital, the companies implicated in the corruption scandal are still not blacklisted or... Read more.
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