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Relebohile Mafokane. File photo

Senzo Mchunu is implicated in job fraud

The minister supported the appointment of a senior North West official who only has a matric certificate, despite CV claims

Nhlanhla Nene
(2014 – 9/12/2015) (Photo by Gallo Images / Netwerk24 / Felix Dlangamandla)

Careers the Zondo state capture inquiry has ended (or not)

From Vincent Smith to Gwede Mantashe, those named and shamed have met with differing fates

Controversy: North West Premier Job Mokgoro has come under fire for appointing Relebohile Mafokane. Photo: Felix Dlangamandla/Netwerk24

NW Premier Mokgoro ‘meddles’ in contentious R1.5m HOD appointment

Provincial HOD hired despite implication in ‘jobs-for-pals’ probe involving former minister Faith Muthambi

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Too broke for Mboweni to budget

The scramble to find cash for an SAA bailout, Covid-19 grants and civil servants’ demands force postponement of mini-budget

Tito Mboweni said the government still needed to discuss these and other solutions with labour. An update will be announced in the 2020 budget.(Sumaya Hisham/ Reuters)

Tito has state’s wage bill in his cross hairs

Finance Minister sees a reduced wage bill as a key reform to get the state’s finances back on track

Broadcaster bodies say claims that a recent skills audit is unrelated to retrenchments are ‘irrational’

No evidence of ANC interference at SABC, inquiry says

But the commission of inquiry finds ‘the spectre of the ANC hovered over the newsroom’

Delusion: The SABC dismissed its chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoaneng (top) for breaking the rules of his contract and for misconduct. (Madelene Cronjé)

SABC crisis a ‘Horror Show’ rerun

The broadcaster will only be saved from ongoing disaster when politicians are not in the script

(Rogan Ward/Reuters)

Zuma says trial is politically motivated, case postponed until May

The application for a permanent stay of prosecution, lodged by Zuma’s legal team two weeks ago, will be argued over three days before next year

The instability in the ministry has had a detrimental impact on policy consistency and the state of the entities under its charge. (David Harrison/M&G)

Communications ministry on fifth reshuffle

The embattled ministry has a new minister at its helm

Phumla Williams during her testimony before the state capture commission. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Corruption case opened against GCIS’ Phumla Williams

​The former head of government communications, Donald Liphoko, has opened a corruption case against the agency’s acting chief executive

Tabane was suspended from the radio station after he dedicated the introduction of his show to apologising to William. (Oresego Holdings)

‘Tabane used station to air personal state capture links’ – Power FM

Power FM has confirmed the indefinite suspension of JJ Tabane, following the radio host’s apology to Zondo commission witness Phumla Williams

“As is always the case with Ms Williams, she has once again taken the opportunity to undermine an important institution to make it all about herself,” says Faith Muthambi

Muthambi hits back at Phumla Williams

Faith Muthambi has described Phumla Williams’ testimony at the commission of inquiry into state capture as self-serving.

Phumla Williams. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

#StateCaptureInquiry: ‘Muthambi wanted to steal at all costs’ — Williams

Williams told the commission that she believed Muthambi had attempted to create the conditions at GCIS in which procurement processes could be flouted

“My understanding of the PFMA is that the minister does not get involved in the running of the department. That in itself was odd to me,” Williams told the commission on Monday. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

‘Muthambi wanted me out’ — Phumla Williams

Williams recounted how tensions between herself and Faith Muthambi came to a head when her position as acting GCIS director general was withdrawn

On Thursday, Zondo also said Van Rooyen had been given the green light to give evidence himself before the commission. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Van Rooyen lost no time in the treasury

In just one day, a Cabinet document was leaked. The question is, what other damage was done?

Respected: Xolani Gwala believes that the story comes first. He says it is critical in debates on national issues that clarity must come before stone-throwing. (Oupa Nkosi)

Return of the irrepressible Bra X

This, an interview with radio personality Xolani Gwala, is the first in a series of profiles that will be a regular feature in the M&G

Former president Jacob Zuma.

Zuma on the offensive as July court appearance looms

Zuma repeated the threat he made to the SACP, saying it should not provoke him

Send us in: President Cyril Ramaphosa’s thuma mina campaign kicked off in Tembisa on Friday. But will he manage to corral enough ANC supporters behind his unity campaign?

Mr Thuma Mina winning over the ANC

One by one, the wily politician appears to be dealing with problems and consolidating his position

Public sector unions said they had allowed the facilitation as a gesture of good faith following the appointment of new Public Service and Administration Minister Ayanda Dlodlo

Public sector wage talks teeter on a knife edge

The protracted standoff between unions and the government could end in a civil service strike

The crux of the issue, says senior lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand Lumkile Mondi, is how to hold the government accountable.

Unions edgy after wage talks delay

Public sector unions fear that the new minister won’t keep old promises