Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
nomaindia mfeketolatest news & developments
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu. (David Harrison)

Housing agency board axed as Sisulu cleans house

Clean-out comes after new minister says her predecessor did not take her board choices to cabinet for approval

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Cabinet has been lauded for its inclusion of youthful faces and women. (GCIS)

Find out who didn’t make the cut for Ramaphosa’s Cabinet

Who didn’t make the cut for President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Cabinet?

Tried and tested: Helen Zille may boost the DA. (David Harrison)

Speedy Gonzille is racing against time

Although a fierce combatant with her political foes, Western Cape Premier Helen Zille says she believes in playing hard but fair

ANC stalwart Mavuso Msimang. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

‘Minister caused HDA board crisis’

Former chairperson Mavuso Msimang says Nomaindia Mfeketo was warned, but did nothing

Loss claim: CSOS was advised to take civil action to recover money lost in an unapproved investment in VBS bank. (Delwyn Verasamy)

R80m VBS loss for homes ombud

A forensic report has found the Community Scheme Ombud Service investment was reckless

Nomaindia Mfeketo may place the Housing Development Agency under administration. (Moeletsi Mabe/Times/Gallo Images)

Roof caves in on housing agency

Executives suspended, reinstated, suspended; the board’s chair removed; corruption; sex-for-jobs claims – and there’s that R11-million deficit

The new ticket, on Emirates Airways, cost an extra R67?000 and the CSOS’s suspended acting chief ombud, Seeng Letele, used the parastatal’s corporate card to pay for it.

Ombud PA sits pretty in business class

​A personal assistant at the troubled state-owned Community Schemes Ombudsman Services flew business class during a state-sponsored trip to Australia.

Mail & Guardian reader Jairam Reddy writes that Nomaindia Mfeketo, the human settlements minister, needs to take action on the Community Schemes Ombud Service. (Shelley Christians/The Times)

Letters to the Editor: September 7 to 13

Our readers write in about the Community Schemes Ombud Service, food fraud, and about abandoning the M&G

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Minister intervenes in community schemes shambles

​Human Settlements Minister Nomaindia Mfeketo has ordered an independent investigator to look into the affairs of the beleaguered CSOS

(Carl Fourie/Gallo Images)

Housing schemes regulator goes from bad to worse

The CSOS said the two were alleged to have been grossly negligent by investing surplus funds with VBS

CSOS finance head Themba Mabuya and chief ombud advocate Seeng Letele have been given 24 hours to account for a raft of financial irregularities.

Senior CSOS staffers suspended for VBS deposit

Chief Ombud Seeng Letele and Chief Financial Officer Themba Mabuya have been given 24 hours to account for a raft of financial irregularities

Michael Cohen as sentenced to three years in prison in December, after admitting to having paid hush money during the 2016 election to two women who said they had had affairs with Donald Trump. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

State officials fingered in a VBS-linked dodgy deposit

Pandemonium reigned at the board of the Community Schemes Ombud Service. What would these officials tell the minister?

All articles in this week’s M&G are free to read

​Unembargoed: August 10 to 16

President Ramaphosa’s administration is planning to lay off 30 000 public servants in the next three years. More in this week’s unembargoed.

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Mfeketo wrestles with ombud services

The human settlements minister suspended the chief ombud over an ‘investment’ with the VBS Mutual Bank

Human Settlements Minister Nomaindia Mfeketo had red-flagged an investment made by one of her department’s entities in a scandal-hit bank that is now under curatorship.

New ombud in hot water over VBS

A housing scheme regulator invested R80m in the troubled bank. Now the minister has stepped in

Students who participated in the “Let us protect our future” course were significantly less likely to report having raped someone even five years after the programme had ended. (Madelene Cronje, M&G)

Embattled Eastern Cape premier is safe – for now

Attempts to replace Phumulo Masualle have failed, as the experience of his proposed backup has been questioned

President Jacob Zuma and Hu Jintao

China’s intentions gift-wrapped

Presents come at a price — and not at the prices declared by the politicians who received them, writes Nelly Shamase.

Zuma ‘needs time’ to decide on Cele and Shiceka

Race is on for Shiceka’s post

Sicelo Shiceka has been told that he will be removed from Cabinet, senior ANC sources told the <i>M&G</i>.

Punch-drunk independent holds out against ANC

Punch-drunk independent holds out against ANC

Neither intimidation tactics nor the influence of party heavyweights have swayed a fiery independent seen as a threat to an ANC stronghold in Knysna.

Ad hoc decision stalls ‘secrecy Bill’

Ad hoc decision stalls ‘secrecy Bill’

Opposition parties say parliament has been caught napping in the processing of the controversial legislation.