Brace yourself SA: Violent protest new normal, escalates ahead of elections
The lead-up to the local elections in August has turned increasingly violent as poor communities use the campaign as leverage to demand better living standards.
The lead-up to the local elections in August has turned increasingly violent as poor communities use the campaign as leverage to demand better living standards.
The urgent application to have Lieutenant General Berning Ntlemeza prevented from exercising his powers as national head of the Hawks will be heard in Pretoria on Wednesday or Thursday this week.
The Hawks said finance minister Pravin Gordhan may face legal action for not cooperating with an investigation of surveillance by the revenue service, escalating a public row and rattling the rand and bonds.
Pravin Gordhan is caught in a bind: his boss, President Zuma, and SARS commissioner are undermining his authority, yet he risks sending the economy into free fall if he resigns.
Zuma’s difficulties with the Constitutional Court are set to rise exponentially. Parliament’s ANC-dominated committee adopted a report concluding Zuma did not have to refund money spent on Nkandla.
The presidency said that the ACTT was fully operational and had been strengthened under the leadership of the anti-corruption inter-ministerial committee led by Minister in the Presidency for Planning Monitoring and Evaluation Jeff Radebe.