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Former President Jacob Zuma has been fingered for alleged wrongdoing by witness testimony at the State Capture Commission more than any other party — including his friends, the Dubai-based Guptas.
Years after al-Bashir escaped justice in South Africa, a fed-up Sudanese population is rising up in a bid to topple him from power.
From taxi ranks to church services, community halls and even maternity wards, the ANC engagements across KwaZulu-Natal continued on the 107th anniversary of the ANC’s founding.
As Marianne Thamm reports for the Daily Maverick, individuals close to Zuma appear to have been involved in an elaborate plan to siphon R45m through the police service to buy votes.
Jacob Zuma, the former South African president facing 16 corruption charges and a demand to pay back as much as R32m in legal fees, may see his woes deepen from beyond the country’s borders.
Riaan de Villiers writes that sources have told him about a plan by Zuma to play his last card by enforcing a state of emergency and deploying the army outside Parliament.
Did we really need a court to tell us that Zuma’s abused our money to pay his luxurious legal fees or that he unabashedly sought to worsen our and the entire SA Development Community’s position?
South African lawmakers have accused McKinsey of possible criminal wrongdoing in a report that condemns the consultant’s work for power utility Eskom.
Former Mineral Resources minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi, told Zondo how former Eskom chairman, Ben Ngubane, demanded he immediately revoke Glencore’s mining licence, purportedly because they owed Eskom R2bn.
The ANC ejected Jacob Zuma from his seat after years of misrule, but the damage the corrupt president left behind is immense.