Zuma largesse reflected in R4.4m a day cost of SA’s bloated cabinet
Calculating what the 74-strong national cabinet costs SA taxpayers, is starting to irritate citizens in a country that faces significant tax increases in the February Budget.
Helen Zille
No deal with Ramaphosa, says Zille
The DA would never enter into a deal that jeopardised its mandate, the party’s leader Helen Zille vowed on Thursday, during a protest on the steps of Parliament.
Helen Zille: It’s the ANC, not Parliament, that’s in crisis
Helen Zille is more optimistic about the future of South Africa after the pandemonium in parliament last week. It is not parliament, but the ANC that is in crisis.
ANC chair Mbete among four Limo-chauffeured Geneva Gravy Trainers
Instead of walking or using public transport like everyone else, Mbete and the other three ANC bigwigs each commissioned chauffeur-driven Mercedes Benzes.
Helen Zille: ANC logic – why catch a Kombi when taxpayers are paying for your Limo?
Helen Zille uses the example of last week’s Geneva conference: ANC attendees commandeered Limos, delegates from every other country walked or used Kombis.
Zille slams ‘up to no good’ Zuma
The urgency and secrecy of the deal South Africa is looking to strike with Russia for the supply of up to eight nuclear power plants means “someone is up to no good”, DA leader Helen Zille said on Monday. That someone, she suggested in her weekly SA Today newsletter, is President Jacob Zuma. In a … Read more
Final straw? Zuma personally took control of nuclear deal – report
The haste with which South Africa’s Government has back pedaled on the proposed $50bn nuclear deal with Russia’s Rosatom has been matched only by the uproar created by the initial announcement. Whatever happens next, the nuclear lobby is now very much on the back foot with suggestions that before any decision is made there is a re-think … Read more
Russian nuclear contract a false alarm; raises frenzied warning for corruption watch in SA
By Peter Fabricius Media reports this week that South African Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson and Sergey Kirienko, Director-General of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, had signed a US$50 billion deal for Rosatom to build up to eight nuclear power stations – and a research reactor – in South Africa caused something of a, well, atomic … Read more
SA opposition aims to reopen Zuma corruption case with “spy tapes”
Schabir seems to be living the dream in Durban despite being diagnosed as terminally ill and released from prison years ago. Will the President ever have a day in court? Zuma was charged with corruption after Shaik was found to have facilitated a bribe for him from a French arms company involved in the controversial ‘Arms … Read more
NPA ‘has complied’ on tapes
The NPA has complied with the Supreme Court of Appeal’s order to hand over the so-called Zuma “spy tapes”, spokesman Nathi Mncube said on Thursday. “We have complied and we did come and lodge the documents,” he told reporters outside the High Court in Pretoria. Mncube said the National Prosecuting Authority handed over a copy … Read more