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Ramaphosa takes Phala Phala report to court in bid to block impeachment process

The president has launched a high court bid to overturn the 2022 Phala Phala panel report as parliament moves towards an impeachment committee

Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s son, was arrested for attempted murder on Thursday after a shooting at his Hyde Park residence

Killing of Witness D casts doubt on state’s ability to protect those testifying at Madlanga commission

The inquiry into corruption in the criminal justice system will submit its interim report to President Cyril Ramaphosa by 17 December

Suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Senzo Mchunu throws Shadrack Sibiya under the bus, denies directive to remove 121 dockets

He contradicted the deputy national commissioner, who said he took the dockets from the task team because he ‘could not disobey an order from the minister

The Madlanga commission heard further testimony of police corruption on Monday from an anonymous police investigator who alleged that senior Gauteng officials were linked to drug cartels and criminal syndicates implicated in contract killings.
 Photo: Paul Botes

Madlanga: Witness A implicates senior Gauteng officials in drug cartels and syndicated hits

The witness, who has requested anonymity, told the Madlanga commission he was invited to parties with senior officials who wanted to influence his investigation of the Armand…

The witness told the Madlanga commission inquiry into political interference in policing on Monday that an investigation into the murder of Armand Swart, an engineer believed to be a whistleblower on overpriced tender irregularities at state-owned entity Transnet, had uncovered a wider network of corruption at the police station.

Madlanga: ‘Johannesburg hitman detective killed the wrong person, believed to be a whistleblower’, Witness A says

The unidentified witness implicated staff the Johannesburg central police station in collusion with drug cartels and sanctioned hits

Denial: The suspended police minister, Senzo Mchunu (above), has described the allegations by KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi against him as ‘wild’. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Mchunu says political killings task team was not a permanent unit, as infighting rocks police service

Suspended minister defends his order to disband the task team

Acting Deputy Chief Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga

Madlanga inquiry into police corruption to hear first witness in August

The commission is yet to secure premises, finalise rules and consult witnesses for the six-month inquiry into criminality and political interference in the criminal justice system

National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Advocate Shamila Batohi.  (Photo by Phill Magakoe/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Shamila Batohi vouched for deputy after he was denied security clearance

The national director of public prosecutions says that key personnel are being targeted as part of a fight-back by state capture forces

Serial fraudster: Howard Mashaba claimed Deputy President Paul Mashatile and billionaire Patrice Motsepe would be at the opening of his new hotel, which is state property and thus falls under the portfolio of Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson.

Swindler Howard Mashaba hijacks a state building

The public works minister allegedly knew the convicted fraudster had demolished government property in Limpopo and built a hotel

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

State Security Agency director general Thembi Majola

Spy agency boss Thembi Majola to quit

The resignation comes at the height of renewed attacks on long-haulage trucks

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

Suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. (Jaco Marais/Foto24/Gallo Images)

Mkhwebane tells parliament to help her find money for a lawyer

The suspended public protector suggested she would take the impeachment committee to court if it continued, despite her not having state funding

Ace Magashule. Photo by Mlungisi Louw/Gallo Images/Volksblad

Ace Magashule featured from the outset in Vrede probe – Thuli Madonsela

Not investigating politicians is a breach of standards, former public protector tells inquiry into her successor, Busisiwe Mkhwebane

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

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (GCIS)

Ramaphosa to reshuffle his cabinet in ‘a matter of days’ says spokesperson

The announcement comes just hours after deputy president David Mabuza resigns from parliament

Indefatigable: Former president Jacob Zuma seems to be hoping for a defeat of his adversaries in the party he may or may not still be a part of.

When it comes to irony, our cup runneth over

Impeachment rules introduced for Jacob Zuma’s maleficence have caused Cyril Ramaphosa to trip

Former Eskom chief executive Andre De Ruyter. Photo: Supplied

Eskom ‘unaware’ of security agency’s request for vetting information about André de Ruyter

The power utility says it is inaccurate to suggest that it has deliberately delayed the vetting process for its executives

President Cyril Ramaphosa on the campaign trail in October 2021. (Photo by Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

D Day for Ramaphosa as Phala Phala report goes to parliament

The findings of the three-member panel will be debated in the House on 6 December

Scopa chairperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa. (David Harrison/M&G)

Parliament’s Scopa may subpoena State Security Agency over vetting of SOE employees

The tide is turning, impunity is no longer a given, says national prosecutions boss Shamila Batoyi