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Cryil Ramaphosa and Zweli Mkhize are up for the top post. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images
ANC

Zweli Mkhize: SIU report set up by Ramaphosa circle to clip my wings

The former health minister says the Digital Vibes report is no longer an obstacle to his presidential ambitions

  • Paddy Harper
  • Lizeka Tandwa
4 min read
Ambitious: Whether Zweli Mkhize’s career has been terminally tainted by corruption remains to be seen. Photo: Leon Sadiki/ City Press/Gallo Images
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

‘Dodgy Vibes’ Zweli Mkhize for next ANC president?

The disgraced former health minister is spotted on posters punting him as the next leader after his R150m corruption scandal

  • Khaya Koko
4 min read
Pragmatic: Former health minister Zweli Mkhize (L) with President Cyril Ramaphosa.
ANBAN PILLAY

Mkhize throws the book at the Special Investigating Unit

It’s a long shot at political redemption for the former health minister and, more pressingly, a bid to avert criminal charges

  • Emsie Ferreira
5 min read
Repurposed: It’s a curious thing. Why did Tahera Mather and associates choose to stash cash in boxes instead of the usual bin bag?
COVID 19

Zweli Mkhize and the art of money recycling

The former health minister’s ‘close associates’ laundered cash from the R150-million Digital Vibes ‘heist’ in boxes

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
In sickness and in health: President Cyril Ramaphosa (L) with former health minister Zweli Mkhize in 2020.
ANBAN PILLAY

Ramaphosa on Mkhize: ‘He has served South Africa well’

The president said the former health minister had steered the country around the HIV crisis and now the Covid-19 pandemic, and now a Special Investigating Unit report has…

  • Lizeka Tandwa
5 min read
Zweli Mkhize 2019 – 2021. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
COVID 19

SIU tells Cyril to axe Zweli Mkhize

Digital Vibes company, controlled by the health minister’s ‘comrade’, was favoured over firms that tendered at about half the price

  • Paddy Harper
  • Athandiwe Saba
5 min read
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

Mkhize report submitted to president

The Special Investigating Unit’s report on the Digital Vibes scandal involving the health minister means his fate hangs in the balance

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read