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NSFAS crisis: R3bn for ‘missing middle’ students ‘redirected’

More than 40,000 students whose families are too poor to afford tertiary education but too rich for full funding by the National Student Financial...

SAPS allegedly used as front for R19m eSwatini surveillance tech deal

Suspended police official Fannie Nkosi is at the centre of a plan to sell sophisticated cellphone surveillance technology to the Kingdom of eSwatini, according...

Court blasts Ekurhuleni mayor’s ‘profoundly unethical’ strategy in mass eviction case

The Gauteng High Court has delivered a stinging rebuke to the City of Ekurhuleni, its mayor Nkosindiphile Xhakaza, and its legal representatives, warning that...

Daniel Makokera | Africa’s industrialisation must cross borders

For decades, Africa has been talking about industrialisation. The conversation whose time has come is about building industrialisation at a continental scale. Across the continent,...

Pali Lehohla | The pulse of extension 8B: A narrative of...

The sun, a relentless entity over Orange Farm, is just beginning to cast its golden, dusty light when Extension 8B stirs. This is not...

Matlala’s Ekurhuleni and Suliman Carrim links under the spotlight

Tender tycoon Vusimuzi Cat Matlala has been questioned about his relationships with Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD) deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi, businessman Hangwani Morgan...

Maumela’s R10m Tembisa-tender Ferrari to be sold, SIU welcomes order

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has welcomed a Special Tribunal judgment authorising the sale of a Ferrari SF90 Stradale tied to alleged corruption at...

Mavuso Msimang steps down from key Harmony board roles

Veteran business leader Dr Mavuso Msimang has relinquished two influential governance positions at Harmony Gold, with the mining company announcing that independent non-executive director...

Matlala’s meeting with Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi focused on Medicare24 tender, arrest warrant

Tender tycoon Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala told the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry on Monday that a meeting he requested with Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi in...

Cat Matlala says he ‘hates’ Brown Mogotsi, they’re ‘not best buddies’

Tender tycoon Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala has told the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry that he hates North West businessman Brown Mogotsi. According to Matlala, Mogotsi caused...