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MaNtuli fined one goat for bad behaviour
3 June, 2010
President Jacob Zuma's second wife, Nompumelelo Ntuli, was fined a goat in April as punishment for bad behaviour.
Bucking the system
28 May, 2010
Agriculture Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson flexed her muscles to push for the import of antelope for a company linked to an aide's boyfriend.
New storm breaks over Ngubane
Questions have been raised about SABC chairperson Ben Ngubane's role in lobbying for the adoption of Japanese digital broadcasting technology.
Gigi’s pad ‘no clean-cut strip club’
In the last of a three-part series on South Africa's striptease subculture, we look at the Survivor winner's Lollipop Lounge.
Aurora: The Ekon connection
New twist in mining saga as questionable link to diamond project emerges.
LOC ‘too busy’ for M&G court battle
24 May, 2010
The LOC of the 2010 Fifa World Cup is "too busy organising the World Cup" to provide the M&G with copies of tender documents.
Top cop scuttled Zuma case
21 May, 2010
Former crime intelligence boss Mulangi Mphego is key to top-secret leaks that that scuttled President Jacob Zuma's corruption trial.
Aurora cuts controversial family ties
Embattled mining company Aurora Empowerment Systems this week booted out their controversial advisers and consultants, the Bhana family.
Cape Town’s clean-up
Tensions are running high in Cape Town over the city's apparent relocation of poor and homeless people to Blikkiesdorp on the Cape Flats.
Iron man in the middle
Lazarus Zim, chair of Kumba Iron Ore, is tied to the main shareholder of the BEE company that snaffled rights worth billions from under Kumba's nose.
Zuma halts NPA changes
14 May, 2010
In a major public rebuke, President Jacob Zuma has told his prosecutions boss, Menzi Simelane, to stop his controversial restructuring of the NPA.
Aurora charged with polluting nearby river
The net tightens around embattled empowerment company Aurora as it struggles to hold on to the liquidated Pamodzi Gold mines in Springs and Orkney.
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