Guptas drop millions on double wedding
While the Guptas’ former mine workers go unpaid, the family – sitting safe in Dubai – is defiantly going ahead with another over-the-top wedding.
Advocacy: A call for disclosure of beneficial owners
The current Companies Amendment Bill revision offers an “ideal opportunity” to include a beneficial ownership disclosure.
‘Stiff drink’ scandal hits Zambia
A leaked letter shows that Zambia’s medicines regulator knew of potentially dangerous levels of anti-impotence drug Viagra in a Zambian-made energy drink.
Controversial sackings in Zambia’s health sector spark political rumours
Health minister Chitalu Chilufya fired two members of the Health Professions Council of Zambia allegedly because the oversight body’s threats to shut down government hospitals — for major violations — is undermining the ruling party’s popularity with voters.
Cost of extravagant eSwatini project ‘quadrupled to R4.8bn’
The signs are that like the recently constructed King Mswati III Airport, the ICC complex — built for an AU summit unlikely to happen — will turn out to be a facility eSwatini neither needs nor can afford.
A’yo goin’ down Dr Survé?
The PIC commission of inquiry has already cast doubt on the decision to put pensions money at the disposal of Iqbal Survé’s Sekunjalo group. And it’s only just begun.
Analysis: Spy watchdog pushes on with probes, despite ‘threats and intimidation’
One of the crimes of the Zuma era was the wholesale politicisation and abuse of the intelligence services. Now the man tasked with watching the spooks is pushing back.
Update: Arrested ex-spy boss threatens to topple Botswana government
High-profile arrest comes against the backdrop of a struggle between the president and his predecessor.
Update: Chinese rail supplier returns R618m to Transnet
International locomotive manufacturers and consulting companies in rail utility’s sights.