Author: Mawande Amashabalala

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News

Rise in private security firms not reflection of government failures

President Cyril Ramaphosa says the ever-growing emergence of private security firms in the country is not an indictment of government’s ability to provide security... Read more.
Politics

Bathabile Dlamini cleared to run for ANCWL top job

Former ANCWL president Bathabile Dlamini is cleared to try again when the structure convenes its national conference next month. This is according to ANCWL national... Read more.
News

Eskom pins questionable intelligence report on De Ruyter

Eskom’s top management and board chair have refused to be dragged into an intelligence operation the power utility’s former chief executive commissioned... Read more.
Politics

Sars cameras could be abused by Rupert’s company

Cigarette manufacturers including Adriano Mazzotti’s Carnilinx fear intelligence obtained by surveillance cameras  installed by Sars to spy on their operations... Read more.
cigarettes.
News

Sars cameras could be abused by BAT

Cigarette manufacturers including Adriano Mazzotti’s Carnilinx fear intelligence obtained by surveillance cameras installed by Sars to spy on their operations... Read more.
Politics

Manyi’s exit ends claims he founded party – ATM boss

The African Transformation Movement (ATM) leadership is breathing a sigh of relief after its head of policy Mzwanele Manyi jumped ship to join the EFF this week.... Read more.
Mantashe tribalism claims
Politics

Knives out as SACP moves to ‘cut Mantashe to size’ over ANC reform jibe

The SACP top brass is seeing red over ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe’s recent attacks that the left’s push for the reconfiguration of the tripartite... Read more.
Politics

How Gwede Mantashe won the anti-coal energy wars, for now

ANC national chairperson and Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe has survived one of the strongest lobbies in his political life, that of the renewable... Read more.
Soccer, Sports

PSL now a certified farmer’s league

The Premier Soccer League (PSL) is showing all the hallmarks of becoming a farmer’s league. What an abomination. One of the signs of a farmer’s league is when... Read more.
News

Cash-strapped Amatola Water defends board’s spending practices

The board of troubled state-owned Amatola Water has racked up R4-million in claims after just seven months in office as an interim authority. Pam Yako, the interim... Read more.