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Nostalgia: President Cyril Ramaphosa, pictured here at Nelson Mandela’s prison house on the premises of the Drakenstein Correctional Centre on
Wednesday, had a lot to look back on in his 2026 State of the Nation address on Thursday evening.

From transformation to sustained delivery

Perhaps the most tangible area of progress since SONA 2025 has been energy stabilisation. The marked reduction in the frequency and severity of load-shedding, including extended…

Lucky Montana, the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa former chief executive (Photo by Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

SIU guns for former Prasa boss Lucky Montana over R3.5bn ‘corrupt’ rail tender

The Special Investigation Unit also has its sight on former finance deputy minister Sfiso Buthelezi, whose company allegedly received R110 million fraudulently

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

Last month, the M&G reported that the state would use emails for Kodwa’s expected prosecution. File photo

BREAKING: Zizi Kodwa to be charged for corruption this week

The sports, arts and culture minister allegedly received cash and other benefits to influence lucrative tenders for a software firm

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has withdrawn corruption charges against former cabinet minister and ANC national executive committee member Zizi Kodwa. Photo: Frennie Shivambu/Gallo Images

Zizi Kodwa faces R1.6m ‘bribe’ charges

The National Prosecuting Authority has encouraged its prosecutors and investigators to go after state capture cases

Former president Jacob Zuma Photo: Mlungisi Louw/Getty Images

Another day, another summons in Jacob Zumaland

Nxamalala really does love a lawyer’s letter — as long as it’s not addressed to him

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

Despite Zondo’s recommendations, intelligence services will remain secret

Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on Thursday that no new amendments regarding overseeing the intelligence services would be enacted

Grave concern: President Cyril Ramaphosa (above) regards allegations against Police Minister Senzo Mchunu as requiring ‘the highest-priority attention’.

Ramaphosa pleads for optimism, even about load-shedding

The president said on Thursday that business leaders were confident the electricity crisis would be overcome within a few years

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Khaya Koko: Pravin Gordhan is Joshua Doore

Our uncle in the load-shedding business sits on his couch and faces zero accountability

President Cyril Ramaphosa. File photo/Ruvan Boshoff, Reuters

Ramaphosa hints that plan to implement Zondo report may be delayed

The president told parliament the plan was being finalised but the commission’s own slight delay may hinder delivery by October 15

Manyi said Zuma had also instructed his legal team to accelerate the ongoing review of Zondo’s refusal to recuse himself from the commission. (Photo: James Puttick)

Zuma takes aim at Zondo following release of final report

Former president intends to review aspects of the full report, in which he has been directly implicated in wide-scale looting of the state

(Graphic: John McCann)

Zondo: Prasa and SAA whistleblowers needed protection

The report recommends that the government establishes a public procurement anti-corruption agency to ‘formulate measures for the making of reports by whistleblowers and for their…

Criminal sanctions for professional enablers are vital to changing the way of doing business that facilitates and encourages corruption. (Photo by Gallo Images / Sowetan / Alon Skuy)

Interest groups welcome Zondo commission report, but want concrete action

Lobby groups and political parties said there should be consequences for those implicated

Day in court: Mbana Thabethe, Dr Limakatso Moorosi, Seipati Dhlamini and Iqbal Sharma appeared at the Bloemfontein magistrate’s court in the Estina case. (Photo by Gallo Images/Volksblad/Mlungusi Louw)

The Zondo commission cases that have made it to the courts

The NPA has begun proceedings based on some of the testimony given at the state capture inquiry

The South African Police Service on Wednesday was unable to tell parliament’s portfolio committee on police exactly how many of its officers were not competent to carry firearms. (RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Gupta-linked R307m ‘fraudster’ disputes he was running away after arrest at airport

Kubentheran Moodley was arrested at OR Tambo moments before leaving for Dubai in an alleged attempt to flee his corruption-linked legal troubles

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

Commissioner Kate O’Regan walks along with Vusi Pikoli during a site visit of the Khayelitsha SAPS. The Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry embarked on several site visits around Khayelitsha on Tueday morning, stopping first at the Khayelitsha Police Station.

Khayelitsha inquiry’s recommendations into policing in the crime-infested township still ignored seven years on

As long as there’s no political will to change policing in this country, there is not much that can be done, say civil rights activists

A meaningful life: Advocate Thuli Madonsela, who is now a lecturer, believes where a person’s burdens and talents come together is where their purpose lies. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Q&A Sessions: Love, Zuma, Stellenbosch and the heart for social justice

Thuli Madonsela speaks to Lyse Comins about how Zuma’s refusal to recognise any court and any structure that disagrees with him was sad. His violations were serious and he must…

Former president Jacob Zuma.  (MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)

South Africa is sliding back to ‘apartheid-type’ governance – Zuma

The former head of state claims he has been persecuted for more than 20 years

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Zuma: Don’t bully me

The former president has, through his lawyers, told the Zondo commission to not ‘bully’ him into appearing before the inquiry