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Chief Justice Raymond Zondo chats with the media after receiving the lists of members of Parliament and Provincial Legislatures at the Constitutional Court on June 06, 2024 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by OJ Koloti/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

KHAYA KOKO: Raymond Zondo, the ‘attention-seeking Barry White’

The Chief Justice preaches about the ills of corruption, yet hasn’t named media houses and journalists who benefitted from the SSA’s Project Wave

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Editorial: Zondo takes us back to the future

The president’s failings were mentioned. Read between the lines and you’ll find Farmgate too

According to media reports, a deal has been struck outside court between the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) and Iqbal Survey’s company AYO Technology. (Gallo Images / Foto24 / Lerato Maduna)

Right of reply: Banking on the truth

The big South African banks’ decision to stop serving Sekunjalo is unjustified, and we are fighting back in the courts and the Competition Tribunal

Absa, FNB, Nedbank, Mercantile, Sasfin, Investec, Bidvest and Access Bank have cut ties with Iqbal Survé’s  companies and Standard Bank has the Sekunjalo Group on review. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Iqbal Survé plays victim card again, this time at Competition Commission and equality court

Absa, FNB, Nedbank, Mercantile, Sasfin, Investec, Bidvest and Access Bank have cut ties with his companies and Standard Bank has the Sekunjalo Group on review.

Spin doctor: Iqbal Survé’s African News Agency was contracted to the SSA to provide training, a spokesperson explained. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Khaya Koko: The theatre that is our journalism

Journalists’ voices should be the very loudest in calling for the culling of the corrupt among us

Arthur Fraser, as director general of the State Security Agency (SSA), personally signed off on payments of R20-million to the African News Agency (ANA) as part of a covert operation code-named “Project Wave” to co-opt the media during the last years of the Zuma era. (Jaco Marais/Netwerk24/Gallo)

Zondo commission: Fraser personally signed off on SSA payments to ANA

Journalists who received payments from the state security agency will be named only once the Zondo commission has notified them in writing

Probe: The Mpati commission investigated the Public Investment Corporation when Dan Matjila (centre) was chief executive.  (David Harrison/M&G)

Ayo report: CFO acted in the PIC’s interests

A disciplinary inquiry has cleared Matshepo More of all charges, but she remains suspended

Former PIC chief executive Dan Matjila. (David Harrison/M&G)

PIC commission – Matjila acted improperly in Ayo deal

The report by the commission that investigated the Public Investment Corporation says the fund manager’s former CEO lied about his involvement in its R4,3-billion investment in…

Power on: People want a secure, stable electricity supply — and the economy depends on Eskom.  (Mujahid Safodien/AFP)

Use PIC and pension fund to rescue SA

Pensions aren’t threatened, Eskom will be saved and it’ll boost growth and a low-carbon economy

Iqbal Survé’s Sekunjalo Investment Holdings denies it owes the PIC more than R1-billion it used to acquire the media group. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Sekunjalo: The PIC is on a drive to embarrass Dr Survé

Iqbal Survé’s Sekunjalo Investment Holdings denies it owes the PIC more than R1-billion it used to acquire the media group

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Editorial: What’s up with the doc?

​Iqbal Survé has been able to construct a business empire in the name of transformation

Pay back the money: Iqbal Survé says the thought of Independent Media collapsing gives him ‘sleepless nights’. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Will Independent sink with Survé?

About 1 500 media workers may lose their jobs if Iqbal Survé cannot service his companies’ debts

Absa, FNB, Nedbank, Mercantile, Sasfin, Investec, Bidvest and Access Bank have cut ties with Iqbal Survé’s  companies and Standard Bank has the Sekunjalo Group on review. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Surve blames Gordhan for raid on offices

The FSCA conducted a search and seizure Sekunjalo premises on Wednesday

Former PIC chief executive Dan Matjila said that proposals for the PIC to invest in Sagarmatha were led by Sekunjalo chairperson Iqbal Survé in November 2017. (Lerato Maduna/Gallo Images)

Surve’s suggested valuation for Sagarmatha shot down by PIC

The proposal to lower Sagarmatha’s pre-listing share price was not supported by the PIC’s investment team

ANC provincial executive committee spokesperson Lionel Adendorf confirmed Maurencia Gillion’s (above) suspension.

Western Cape ANC treasurer in hot water over Survé donation

Maurencia Gillion has been supended and an investigation into the matter is underway

Survé, testifying before the commission for two days last week, had said that AYO had done nothing wrong and the PIC’s R4.3bn investment was sound.(Lerato Maduna/Gallo)

Ayo financial tampered with on Survé’s instruction, says ex-chief exec

​Former AYO Technology Solutions CEO, Kevin Hardy, has testified that businessperson Iqbal Survé interfered in the running of the technology company

Media mogul Iqbal Survé. (Lerato Maduna/Gallo)

Survé keeping Independent Media afloat, PIC inquiry hears

The controversial businessperson was being cross-examined at the PIC commission of inquiry

Survé told the commission that this was the fault of media competitors who sabotaged the listing of Sagarmatha Technologies and “blatantly put negative propaganda in the public space”. (Lerato Maduna/Gallo)

Survé compares Sagarmatha to Uber, says it would have been valued at $10bn

Iqbal Survé, on Tuesday claimed that bad press from rival media houses scuppered the listing of Sagarmatha Technologies on the JSE and the NYSE

Absa, FNB, Nedbank, Mercantile, Sasfin, Investec, Bidvest and Access Bank have cut ties with Iqbal Survé’s  companies and Standard Bank has the Sekunjalo Group on review. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Survé denies any personal relationship with Matjila

Under oath, the media owner appeared to contradict an earlier interview with the M&G

Iqbal Survé’s Sekunjalo Investment Holdings denies it owes the PIC more than R1-billion it used to acquire the media group. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Survé set to testify at PIC inquiry

Survé is expected to testify after Kuben Naidoo, the deputy governor of the South Africa Reserve Bank