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Former public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba

Gigaba engaging with IDAC, not arrested over corruption at Transnet

Gigaba said his conscience was clear regarding his conduct in office as minister of public enterprises

National director of public prosecutions Shamila Batohi.   (Photo by Gallo Images / Netwerk24 / Felix Dlangamandla)

Batohi asks judiciary to assign state capture cases wisely

It was crucial that trial judges had the necessary skills and experience to hear complex corruption cases, she said

A dearth of consequences: Ajay and Atul Gupta skipped South Africa for Dubai along with brother Rajesh and their families two days after then-president Jacob Zuma stepped down. (Photo by Gallo Images/Business Day/Martin Rhodes)

South Africa continues to fight for Gupta brothers extradition

Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Thembisile Simelane-Nkadimeng said her department was also handling 40 extradition applications from other countries

Pay back the money: A new approach and tools are enabling the National Prosecuting Authority to recover money stolen during the Zuma-led state capture era. Photo: Deaan Vivier/Getty Images

State capture clawbacks inspire hope

South Africa’s pursuit of state-capture redress is a story of stalemates and setbacks, but also some successes

Count them: Special Investigating Unit head Andy Mothibi. (Paul Botes)

Civil servants implicated in state capture resign to avoid prosecution

The Special Investigation Unit wants to ‘pursue’ those who left to avoid accountability for their actions

Former mineral resources minister Mosebenzi Zwane is one of the accused in the  Estina fraud and corruption trial.

Estina trial date set for August next year

As in the Nulane case, the prosecution alleges that the now fugitive Gupta brothers conspired with the accused to fleece the Free State

Malusi Gigaba

ANCYL withdraws Gigaba conference invite, only to invite him again

Former presidents and secretaries were uninvited to try cut costs but have now been asked to attend again

Former Eskom chief executive Andre de Ruyter. (Brenton Geach/Gallo Images)

Eskom, SAA probes for parliament?

MPs must find a way to handle André de Ruyter’s allegations and a protected disclosure accusing Pravin Gordhan of wrongdoing in the SAA sale

Former public protector Thuli Madonsela says intelligence agency opened documents couriered to her by the department of international relations. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Sunday Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Madonsela says State Security Agency tried to snoop on CIEX-Bankorp probe

Former public protector says intelligence agency opened documents couriered to her by the department of international relations

Courting trouble: President Cyril Ramaphosa faces a challenge from the African Transformation Movement over the Phala Phala matter. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

From ATM to Zuma: A court calendar full of political conundrums

From a bid to overturn parliament’s rejection of the Ngcobo report to Jacob Zuma’s appeal to stay out of prison, political actors will fill the courts

File photo: Chief Justice Raymond Zondo hands over the Zondo report on state capture to President Cyril Ramaphosa. Members of the cabinet and ANC members were implicated in the report. Photo: Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images

What the Ngcobo report meant for the Zondo report

The ANC’s reaction to the Zondo findings was a precursor of its attitude to the Ngcobo ‘Farmgate’ report

The fraud and corruption case against Brian Molefe, Anoj Singh and their co-accused in the Transnet locomotive scandal was on Friday postponed until November 30. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Blue Monday at the Saxonwold Shebeen for Molefe and Singh

For Brian Molefe and Ajoj Singh, the Transnet locomotives are coming home to roost

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo by Nic BOTHMA / POOL / AFP)

Ramaphosa tells parliament to act on Zondo’s findings on the State Security Agency

The president has singled out the part of the state capture report that recommends an investigation that includes Arthur Fraser’s alleged abuses be resumed

Raymond Zondo. (Veli Nhlapo)

Zondo seeks an extension to 15 June to finalise state capture report

Part four of the report will be handed to the president soon but, in court papers, Zondo said he needed six more weeks to deliver the last instalment

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

Brian Molefe and Anoj Singh have emerged as two of the key antagonists in the capture of Transnet.

How the Guptas captured Transnet

The former president, cabinet ministers, board members and executives all played a role in the Gupta family looting the state company of billions.

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)

Sars appeals to ConCourt to keep Zuma’s tax secrets

The high court ruled banning the release of tax information was unconstitutional. Sars disagrees, saying is not only wrong but makes an exception of the former president

Kuben Moodley during day 2 of the MTN SuperSport Shootout at Zimbali Coastal Resort on June 23, 2012 in Durban, South Africa.
(Photo by Anesh Debiky / Gallo Images)

Gupta-linked ‘fraudster’ nabbed en route to Dubai

Kubentheran Moodley was caught trying to ‘flee’ to Dubai allegedly after his family was threatened by a debt collector and the state seized R232-million worth of his assets

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa testifies before the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture in Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 11, 2021. (Photo by Sumaya HISHAM / POOL / AFP)

Ramaphosa confronted with too much evidence of his inaction

The president’s claim that he served as deputy president under Zuma as a way of stemming corruption came up short against prior evidence of witnesses who said he failed to help…

Former South African Airways chief executive Sizakele Mzimela on Tuesday told the Zondo commission it riled her that taxpayers had to foot the bill for former minister Malusi Gigaba’s legal representatives to cross-examine her at the state capture inquiry.

‘I’m not happy that me and other taxpayers have to foot Gigaba’s legal bill’, former SAA boss tells Zondo

Sizakele Mzimela, under cross-examination by the former minister’s lawyers, also tells of ‘ambush’ at a meeting when the Gupta-linked Jet Airways placed undue pressure on the…