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Department of Public Enterprises

State capture is often cited as the the reason for the department’s ongoing failures, but its problems run far deeper

Flatline: Public healthcare fails in most provinces because of poor leadership in hospitals and at provincial government, decaying infrastructure and overworked staff. Photo: Waldo Swiegers/Getty Images

Department of Health

The department has tried to turn the health system around but it’s plagued by inefficiency, staff shortages, dismal leadership and governance failures

R57-billion: How the Guptas played Monopoly with state money

The largest sources of state capture money were Transnet and Eskom, two of South Africa’s most fragile state-owned entities

The Zondo report found that after his reinstatement, Siyabonga Gama was “centrally involved in key transactions that favoured the Gupta enterprise”.
(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Former Transnet chief exec Siyabonga Gama, Gupta associate Eric Wood arrested

Former Transnet chief executive Siyabonga Gama and four others have been arrested on charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering.

Auspicious: Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela are among other familiar, if younger, faces at a protest march in 1990 on the same day as FW de Klerk unbanned the ANC. Photo: Susan Winters Cook/Getty

Unbanned are now the damned

The ruling party was unbanned 32 years ago on 2 February, but few ANC leaders can be feeling festive today

Former public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba.(Photo by Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Gupta kickbacks: Zondo recommends investigations into Gigaba, Molefe, Gama and Singh

The Zondo commission’s second report deals with the capture of Transnet through the Gupta racketeering enterprise

Keeping silent: Jacob Zuma and his confidante Dudu Myeni have refused to answer important questions in the Zondo commission’s quest to unearth the full extent of state capture during Zuma’s time in office. Photo: Kevin Sutherland/Sunday Times /Gallo Images

Zuma’s silence leaves state capture’s truth up to inference

The case Zuma refused to answer before Zondo

Ramaphosa distances himself from dubious Zuma-era appointments

President Cyril Ramaphosa acknowledged that cadre deployment was abused to further state capture, but played for time when Zondo pressed him for details as to how it happened

South Africa’s defence minister, Thandi Modise. (Gallo)

Parliament owes South Africa an apology on state capture — Modise

The speaker told the Zondo commission she doesn’t know why the legislature woke up to state capture so late, but believes this won’t happen again

Former Transnet chief executive Siyabongo Gama.

Gama says the Gupta meeting was an ambush

The former Transnet boss says luck, not political meddling, was behind his baffling reinstatement

The Zondo commission has filed an urgent Constitutional Court application for an order compelling former president Jacob Zuma to testify before it and forged an argument as to why the matter falls within the court’s exclusive jurisdiction. (Wikus de Wet/Pool/Reuters)

Legal bias doctrine basis of Zuma’s recusal application to Zondo

The former president’s advocate and commission lawyers were embroiled in a showdown of who best argued the apprehension of bias doctrine

Jacob Zuma’s lawyer argued on Monday at the state capture inquiry that Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo had a “reasonable apprehension of bias” based on comments he had made to “sweetheart witnesses”. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Zondo: Zuma was MEC, not president so he couldn’t boost my judicial career

The application for the state capture commission chair to recuse himself lays bare the history of the two men

Former minister Barbara Hogan told the Johannesburg high court on Wednesday that security branch policeman Stephan Whitehead had an “unhealthy” interest in Aggett and his then partner, Elizabeth Floyd.
(Deon Raath/Beeld/Gallo)

Aggett tormentor had a ‘morbid’ obsession — Barbara Hogan

The former minister told the inquest into the trade unionist Neil Aggett’s death that security branch interrogator Stephan Whitehead was voyeuristic

Former president Jacob Zuma rejected outright attempts on Monday by the ANC top six leaders to secure an agreement from him to appear before the Zondo commission into state capture.

Zuma trips up over SOE interference claims

Former president’s legal team halts proceedings, arguing its client is being cross-examined

The Zondo commission has filed an urgent Constitutional Court application for an order compelling former president Jacob Zuma to testify before it and forged an argument as to why the matter falls within the court’s exclusive jurisdiction. (Wikus de Wet/Pool/Reuters)

‘I did not push for Gama at Transnet’ — Zuma

Former president disputes former public enterprises minister Barbara Hogan’s allegation that he interfered in the appointment of the entity’s CEO

Barbara Hogan
2009 – 2010 (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Zuma’s next hurdle — Barbara Hogan

Before the commission could get stuck into Barbara Hogan’s evidence, the former president’s counsel asked for an early adjournment

Former SAA board chairperson Cheryl Carolus. (SABC)

Gigaba hit the ground running on Mumbai route — Carolus

Former SAA board chair Cheryl Carolus recounted how Gigaba seemingly pushed the airline to drop the critical route between Johannesburg and Mumbai

Referring to “attacks” on his daughter in the wake of his testimony before the commission, Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan denied allegations that she amassed millions of rands through state tenders. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

#StateCaptureInquiry: Gordhan — Connect the dots to uproot state capture

The public enterprises minister tells Zondo commission what appeared to be ‘isolated incidents’ was actually part of a larger picture of corruption

Barbara Hogan recounted another incident where Jet Airways chief executive Naresh Goyal ambushed her and caused a scene at a fashion show during this same India trip. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Zuma and I had different ideas about governance — Hogan

The former enterprises minister told the state capture inquiry that she believed Zuma thought she was a ‘hindrance’

“Throughout this tussle with Mr Maroga, Mr Mantashe said: ‘I am not getting involved in this. I disagree with the President and I am not getting involved’,” said Barbara Hogan on Tuesday. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Hogan: Zuma wanted a ‘rogue’ CEO at Eskom

According to Hogan’s testimony, a tussle between Jacob Maroga and the Eskom board showed how former president Jacob Zuma imposed his authority