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Thanduxolo Jika is an investigative Journalist and Co-Author of We are going to kill each other today:The Marikana Story. The Messiah of Abantu.

Power play: Oscar Mabuyane (right), the Eastern Cape’s provincial chairperson, is a strong supporter of the
ANC’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa. Photo: Lulama Zenzile

ANC won’t rake up its bad apples

The ruling party faces severe criticism over its reluctance to deal with leaders who are facing investigations, and its NEC is accused of selective morality

702: Vitriol dims the radio’s star

702 has recently lost a number of high-profile presenters. It says this is part of a shift to gain listeners. But insiders say something is rotten

Public transport in Cape Town and its surrounds has stabilised somewhat following two weeks of disruption due to ongoing conflict over routes between two rival taxi associations.

Fikile has a daring plan for taxis

The transport minister presented to the ANC’s top body a proposal to establish a bank for taxi operators and to subsidise the industry

Criticised: Council of Medical Schemes registrar Sipho Kabane

War of words over declined medical aid merger

Sizwe Medical Fund has taken a swipe at the Council for Medical Schemes for declining its merger with Hosmed

Dondo Mogajane (left) and Tito Mboweni. (Photo by David Harrison)

The PPE scandal that the Treasury hasn’t touched

Many government officials have been talking tough about dealing with rampant corruption in PPE procurement but the majority won’t even release names of who has benefited from the…

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

ANC still at odds over how to tackle leaders facing serious graft allegations

The ANC’s top six has been mandated to work closely with its integrity committee to tackle claims of corruption against senior party members

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

It’s worse than we thought: The state of the SABC and the political battle over retrenchments

A bloated workforce, a stalemate over retrenchments and the need for the public broadcaster to be financially viable are holding back SABC’s turnaround strategy

Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams (L) and Deputy Minister Pinky Kekana. (Photo: Siyabulela Duda)

Political interference mounts over SABC retrenchments

The SABC says it needs to cut R700-million to survive. But senior politicians have allegedly interfered to stop retrenchments from proceeding

Phalaphala FM had long had an association with VBS, embarking on a series of charity events, including relief for  impoverished schoolchildren, which the bank sponsored. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

SABC staff ready to join picket line

The national broadcaster has rejected claims that it did not follow correct retrenchment and audit processes

Comrades in arms: (from left) Stanley Mathabatha, Florence Radzilani, Soviet Lekganyane, Bishop Israel Makamu and Daniel Msiza during the ANC’s Limpopo provincial conference in June 2018 in Polokwane. The party has reinstated Radzilani and Msiza, who are among the people implicated in the looting of VBS Mutual Bank. (Photo: Antonio Muchave/Gallo Images/Sowetan)

VBS looting haunts the ANC in Limpopo

The ANC is facing a revolt over the looting of VBS bank, which took money from poor communities, with warnings of electoral consequences in 2021 local elections

Doth protest too much: Floyd Shivambu denies benefiting from VBS Mutual Bank looting and that he sold his ‘old’ BMW to his brother Brian, the amout of which equalled the shortfall for his new Range Rover

The case against Floyd Shivambu

The flow of money from VBS Bank would seem to suggest that the EFF’s second-in-command was an ultimate beneficiary of proceeds of a crime

On the warpath: Nthateng Maoke (centre), the former executive mayor of the Setsoto local municipality, is taking the department of home affairs to court to review its decision that she is not a South African citizen.

Municipality won’t remove former mayor, despite home affairs demands

The department is fighting with a small Free State town, which it accuses of continuing to employ an illegal immigrant

Criticised: Council of Medical Schemes registrar Sipho Kabane

Row over medical scheme merger

The amalgamation of Sizwe Medical Aid and Hosmed Medical Scheme, two major black-owned companies, has hit an unexpected hurdle

Health worker infections have risen to 170 at state and private hospitals and two healthcare staff succumb to the disease in a space of seven days. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Covid infections among health workers increasing in Eastern Cape

Health worker infections have risen to 170 at state and private hospitals and two healthcare staff succumb to the disease in a space of seven days

Crammed together: A cellphone image of a cell at the Johannesburg Correctional Centre, aka ‘Sun City’, shows the extent of overcrowding

Inmates fear Covid-19 contagion

A group of men wearing masks can be seen in cellphone images — but they are not physically distancing because of overcrowding in their cell

Slow off the mark: Bizana in the Eastern Cape. The province waited more than a month to establish a team of experts to direct its efforts to contain Covid-19.  (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Wanted: Medical experts in the Eastern Cape

Its government is far behind other provinces in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic

Doctors and nurses of Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade take part in a  farewell ceremony before travelling to Andorra to help in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, at the Central Unit of Medical Cooperation in Havana, on March 28, 2020.  (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images)

200 Cuban medics to help SA fight Covid-19

200 Cubans are flying to South Africa to help the defence force and health department respond to the pandemic

Cases of Covid-19 have surged in the Eastern Cape.

Eastern Cape’s PPE shortage endangers healthcare workers

Health workers on the front line in one of the poorest provinces are struggling with a shortage of protective equipment and accuse the health department of being unprepared for…

Own goal: The spread of Covid-19 in the Eastern Cape has been exacerbated because a number of people are disobeying the lockdown regulations. (Delwyn Verasamy)

Behind the Covid-19 spiral in the Eastern Cape

‘Port St Johns and Port Elizabeth funerals are the cause of rising numbers,’ says the department of health

Flouting the law: Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams (left) has been suspended by President Cyril Ramaphosa for breaking lockdown rules.  (Phill Magakoe/Gallo Images)

Stella set to retain her perks

Communication minister will keep Cabinet perks during her two months of special leave