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STATE CAPTURE COMMISSION

May 2019

Posts for May 2019 2 May 2019 Not long after he fingered Durban businessman Thoshan Panday for attempting to bribe him in 2011 to evade prosecution, former KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head Johan Booysen was himself facing prosecution and fighting to keep his job. Booysen describes determined efforts to work him out of KZN Hawks 3 May Read more >

STATE CAPTURE COMMISSION

August 2019

Posts for August 2019 13 August 2019 Former Free State agriculture MEC Mosebenzi Zwane pressured Phumelela municipality into leasing farming land for the Estina dairy farm project in 2012, to the extent that his team drew up the resolutions – usually done by council – that would give the project the green light. This was Read more >

STATE CAPTURE COMMISSION

September 2019

Posts for September 2019 3 September 2019  South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) CEO Mzwamadoda Mxakwe says the public broadcaster has met all the pre-conditions for a government bailout, but to date has not received it. A bailout is the only way that the SABC – currently sitting on a debt of R1.8-billion – will be Read more >

STATE CAPTURE COMMISSION

April 2021

Posts for April 2021 1 April 2019 The 2009 Special Investigating Unit report on facilities management company Bosasa was compromised by a court interdict in the early stages of the probe in 2007 that prohibited investigators from interviewing material witnesses. SIU’s Bosasa investigation hamstrung from start 9 April 2021 Former minister of state security David Read more >

STATE CAPTURE COMMISSION

May 2021

Posts for May 2021 3 May 2021 Former Prasa CEO Lucky Montana used his appearance before the state capture commission on Monday to throw the ANC under the bus for its fundraising strategies, some of which he says come at a great cost to state-owned entities (SOEs). Montana said there is a long-standing culture in Read more >

STATE CAPTURE COMMISSION

June 2021

Posts for June 2021 1 June 2021 Lucky Montana has been accused by two of his former subordinates of fabricating evidence he submitted to the state capture commission. The former CEO of Prasa told the commission during his appearance last month that former legal head Martha Ngoye and current head of strategy Tiro Holele were Read more >

STATE CAPTURE COMMISSION

July 2021

Posts for July 2021 5 July 2021 Former president Jacob Zuma used the opportunity of a media briefing at his Nkandla home on Sunday evening to take a swipe at both the judiciary and the current administration, likening the state of affairs to apartheid-type rules of persecuting people because of who they are and not Read more >

STATE CAPTURE COMMISSION

August 2021

Posts for August 2021 10 August 2021 Former South African Airways CEO Siza Mzimela has stuck to her guns on the conduct of Malusi Gigaba during what appeared to be an attempt to bully the national airline into relinquishing a flight route between Johannesburg and Mumbai, India. Gigaba was minister of public enterprises between 2010 Read more >

STATE CAPTURE COMMISSION

October 2021

Posts for October 2021 22 October 2021 Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has dismissed allegations by the former director-general of the State Security Agency, Arthur Fraser, against him claiming that he blocked crucial evidence from being heard before the state capture commission. Zondo released a media statement on Thursday in his capacity as chairperson of Read more >