Author: Setumo Stone

‘I recruited Eskom chair in my living room,’ says Cyril Ramaphosa as he hails workers
Politics

Setumo Stone | Eskom future is being decided without the public, as NUM warns

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s approval of the first phase of Eskom’s restructuring plan has moved the future of South Africa’s electricity system from debate... Read more.
Politics

Paul O’Sullivan threatens Parly over unpaid expenses

Parliament faces a legal claim from forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan after allegedly failing for more than five months to reimburse expenses he incurred when... Read more.
National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola at Pretoria Magistrate Court
Politics

Why Masemola signed to fire Mokwele after internal probe

Suspended National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola approved a move to terminate Brigadier Dineo Mokwele’s employment over alleged misrepresentation during... Read more.
Maj-Gen Nozipho Madondo of the SAPS Crime Intelligence division
Politics

Madondo was denied top security clearance

A senior crime intelligence officer, Maj-Gen Nozipho Madondo, was denied top-secret security clearance, despite an internal SAPS investigation finding no prima facie... Read more.
Lieutenant General Puleng Dimpane speaking at a South African Police Service event in Cape Town.
News

How Dimpane opposed SAPS clearing Khumalo, team

Acting national police commissioner Lt-Gen Puleng Dimpane called for an independent investigation into Crime Intelligence head Dumisani Khumalo and six other officers... Read more.
Mmamoloko Kubayi moves to clean up IDAC corruption unit
Politics

Mmamoloko Kubayi moves to clean up IDAC corruption unit

Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi has announced a sweeping reset of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption, including lifestyle audits of all 146 employees,... Read more.
Case dismissed; no time for faux chivalry in Justice Maya’s court 
News

ConCourt inches closer to deciding urgent Phala Phala appeal

The Constitutional Court has moved closer to deciding whether it will hear an urgent appeal against the order that stopped Parliament’s public impeachment proceedings... Read more.
City of Tshwane
Politics

Tshwane CFO Gareth Mnisi says DA case overtaken by events

Tshwane chief financial officer Gareth Mnisi has asked the Gauteng High Court to dismiss the Democratic Alliance’s urgent bid to halt disciplinary proceedings... Read more.
Politics

Setumo Stone | Knife-edge politics at the heart of ANC candidate selection

A photograph circulating on social media captures a moment of chaos at what is described as an ANC councillor selection meeting in King Sabata Dalindyebo Municipality’s... Read more.
Ramaphosa in urgent bid to halt impeachment probe
Politics

Setumo Stone | Ramaphosa reform agenda that begins where privatisation begins

The National Water Action Plan begins with a fact nobody disputes that municipal water services are failing. Infrastructure is deteriorating. Non-revenue water is... Read more.