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A forensic investigation has red-flagged the troubled Construction Education and Training Authority’s supply chain management office for paying R50 000, or 500% more, for the delivery of parcels that could have cost between R7 000 and R8 000, culminating in irregular expenditure by the state entity.
Despite the Auditor-General of South Africa flagging travel-related irregular expenditure in the Department of Defence and Military Veterans, the department allegedly flew Balobedu Queen Masalanabo Modjadji VII in business class to Paris in July.
The ANC’s candidate list troubles in KwaZulu-Natal are bigger than first disclosed, with the party now confirming that technical glitches have hit three municipalities ahead of the deadline for the November local government elections.
MK Party president Jacob Zuma has removed the party’s surprise eThekwini mayoral candidate, Zandile Hlophe-Mkhwanazi, and once again pulled the plug on its newly appointed presidential task team.
‘A wish to see a competitor kept off a ballot is not an interest a court exists to protect,’ the ANC has said in response to the DA’s bid to intervene in its legal challenge against the Electoral Commission of SA.
The ANC knew the deadline for submitting the candidate list for the November local government elections and had more than enough time to comply, the DA has argued in an application to intervene in the case the ANC has brought before the Electoral Court.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has scolded school dropouts, while hearing complaints about crime, sewage, electricity costs and unfulfilled housing promises in Tembisa.
The DA’s “bogus doctor” councillor was found by the DA’s own federal legal commission to have failed to comply with key conditions of a disciplinary agreement imposed after he admitted providing false qualification information.
From Qwaqwa to the UN and now the EFF, Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng has never backed down from a fight. She tells Real Politiki why she believes she is the right person to lead Johannesburg.
The first performance reviews of government of national unity (GNU) ministers under the seventh administration are under way, and they are happening behind closed doors at the highest office in the land.
The ANC has appointed a forensic investigator to probe “changes” to the ANC Eastern Cape candidate list that allegedly occurred in late August.
The eThekwini Metro has pushed through a R3.1-million annual increase for its most senior managers just two months before voters go to the polls, with the city insisting it was simply complying with a national directive.
The parliamentary impeachment committee has voted 19-9 to oppose an urgent interdict brought by the EFF seeking to overturn its decision to rescind the nomination of advocate Thandazani Madonsela, SC, as evidence leader of the landmark inquiry.
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has pledged to defend the Electoral Commission of SA against political attacks even as the party takes it to court over its candidate registration crisis, drawing a sharp distinction between legal disagreement and public undermining of democratic institutions.
A senior Joe Gqabi District Municipality official has been arrested and granted bail in connection with a R1.6-million water pipe tender fraud case allegedly involving an MK Party MP.
The EFF has enticed ANC Eastern Cape provincial secretary Lulama Ngcukayitobi’s son, Qhama Solathiso Ngcukayitobi, to join its ranks and enlisted him as a councillor candidate in a region considered to be his father’s political stronghold.
