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Eskom chief executive Dan Marokane says coal is important for the country to drive industrialisation. (Getty Images)

It’s business vs business in fight over Eskom probe funding

Business Unity South Africa’s chief executive has accused the organisation’s president of throwing the lobby under the bus in a meeting with the president

Unethical: Stephen York tried to whitewash Bain’s role in colluding with Tom Moyane in capturing and breaking the South African Revenue Service. (Bain & Company)

Apology be damned, Bain colluded with Tom Moyane to capture the South African Revenue Service

Stephen York, the consulting firm’s managing partner in South Africa, said it helped ‘South African organisations grow, innovate, and excel’, yet the Zondo commission found it…

‘Offensive’: Links between the private and the public sectors are not unusual but can go horribly wrong, as was the case of the alleged strategy by former South African Revenue Service commissioner Tom Moyane and Bain’s local managing partner Vittoria Massone for Moyane ‘to seize Sars’. (Deon Raath/Gallo Images /Rapport)

State capture: The complicity of big, bad business

The private sector has had close ties with the government for decades. Some see nothing wrong with this, but other say this relationship is at the very heart of corruption

Former Sars commissioner Tom Moyane. (Gallo/Phil Magakoe)

Moyane too ill to testify at Zondo commission after days of damning allegations

Symington returned to bizarre ‘hostage drama’ and implicated the former Sars commissioner in fabricating charges against Pravin Gordhan with the Hawks

Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo. (Gulshan Khan/AFP)

Zondo dismisses Bain’s request to publish its affidavit to commission

The consulting firm said it would suffer prejudice if its version were not made public to counter testimony. But Zondo says Bain created its own dilemma

(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Former Bain consultant claims company plotted capture on a grand scale with Zuma

Bain’s role at Sars was a gateway for a special council that would control Eskom and the wider economy, Zondo commission witness says

The PIC stepping in to help Edcon stay afloat will stabilise the broader clothing industry, some investment experts argue. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Edcon: Experts split on PIC lifeline

Should the giant be left to sink or should it be helped to stay afloat in South Africa’s retail storm

Press freedom in Nigeria is limited and journalists are under threat for reporting on politics and terrorism. (Reuters)

Bain says it made ‘significant errors of judgement’ in Sars work

Global management consultancy Bain & Company says it does not accept that its local representatives knowingly participated in an effort to damage Sars

Tome Moyane’s supporters intend to use the information in retired judge Robert Nugent’s commission of inquiry into Sars (Esa Alexander/The Times)

Sars breakdown was inevitable with Moyane at the helm — Nugent

A 200-page report authored by retired judge Robert Nugent says governance and integrity failed on a massive scale during Tom Moyane’s era at Sars

Rabie said Sars needed to address problems with e-filing “because that crash is imminent in 2020”. (eNCA)

Sars IT overhaul will cost R1bn to fix

Gartner received over R200-million in a tender to review and develop a new IT strategy for Sars in 2015 which will now cost R1-billion to fix

The inquiry is investigating tax administration and governance problems at Sars between April 2014 and March 2018, when Tom Moyane was commissioner. He has been suspended. (David Harrison/M&G)

Fear stopped staff at Sars from speaking out

​Testimony before the Nugent commission this week revealed how irregular and unlawful conduct at the South African Revenue Service continued

Vittorio Massone is at the centre of Bain’s contract to design a new operating model that was allegedly used to break down the efficiency of Sars and resulted in the exodus of highly skilled employees.

Nugent: Bain & Company in a dangerous position as evidence piles up

As more details emerge during the Nugent commission, Bain & Company’s managing director Vittorio Massone was not available to answer questions

Press freedom in Nigeria is limited and journalists are under threat for reporting on politics and terrorism. (Reuters)

Bain back in hot seat as SARS inquiry resumes

Bain & Company has admitted that its work may have been used to ‘further a political or personal agenda’

Vittorio Massone is at the centre of Bain’s contract to design a new operating model that was allegedly used to break down the efficiency of Sars and resulted in the exodus of highly skilled employees.

Bain head honcho mired in state capture allegations won’t be stepping down

Bain & Company clarified on Monday that its managing partner would be taking time to focus on cooperating with the Sars commission of inquiry

Vittorio Massone is at the centre of Bain’s contract to design a new operating model that was allegedly used to break down the efficiency of Sars and resulted in the exodus of highly skilled employees.

SAA links to Bain raise red flag

Elements in the state-owned entity were apparently determined to pass work on to the controversial company