South Africa’s Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane has called for President Robert Mugabe to step down and allow for free and fair elections to be held immediately. In a press statement, released Wednesday morning, Maimane also took a swipe at former President Thabo Mbeki, blaming him for the current state of affairs in Zimbabwe. […]

According to reports on social media, Zimbabwe may be under threat of a military coup and President Robert Mugabe (93) has been asked to stand down. He has allegedly been given 24 hours after firing Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa (75) last week. However these reports are unconfirmed and the three tanks which were caught on film […]

  Democratic Alliance (DA) leader, Mmusi Maimane, will visit the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Monday morning to view President Jacob Zuma’s declaration of interests since he took office in 2009. This comes after the DA say President Zuma “failed to answer an urgent question” last week in the National Assembly as to whether he […]

South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma hit back at opposition MPs yesterday, during the National Council of Provinces, for not listening to the ANC report on everything it has achieved… and instead raising issues from books. He was referring to, amongst several others, Jacques Pauw’s best-selling expose “The President’s Keepers” which the State Security Agency (SSA) […]

Following Public Enterprises Deputy Minister Ben Martins rebuttal of a testimony by Eskom’s suspended company Secretary and legal services head Suzanne Daniels that he attended a tea party that was also attended by, among others, members of the Gupta family… Daniels has said she stands by her testimony. Deputy Minister Martins briefed the media at […]

The launch of ‘The President’s Keepers‘ at Hyde Park on Wednesday evening began with protesters outside (protesting for media freedom under the threat of the book being banned)… and ended with a power outage! Photos by Andrea Ben. Author Jacques Pauw took centre stage at the Hyde Park shopping centre, with crowds packed to the […]

By Friday 17 November, the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) will have signed a contract with the SA Post Office (SAPO) for the payment of over 17 million grants. This “hybrid model” will include SASSA, SAPO, Home Affairs and the State Security Agency. Jeff Radebe, minister in the Presidency and chairperson of the Interministerial […]

South Africa has produced two must-read thrillers in the past week. They are non-fiction, yet are as gripping and readable as any page-turner. Veteran investigative journalist Jacques Pauw’s “The President’s Keepers” has, within a week, become a global best seller. It has had the advantage of the best available marketing push by South Africa’s State […]

Lord Peter Hain tabled a series of allegations in the UK’s House of Lords relating to the possible role of British banks in alleged money laundering and illicit financial transactions centred around South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma and the Gupta family. The Conversation Africa’s Charles Leonard asked him to explain why he took the step. […]

The African National Congress (ANC) is not impressed with Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement yesterday of his preferred team, should he be elected as the new ANC leader next month, at the 54th National Conference in South Africa. Yesterday, Ramaphosa broke with ANC tradition to reveal his top six, at a campaign rally in Limpopo. […]

South Africa’s latest crime statistics released by the country’s police service reflect a continued long-term decline in levels of non-violent property crime, a possible stabilisation following four years of increase in murder, and a sustained rise in violent property crime. More worryingly, a closer look at case outcomes points to the toll that the leadership […]

South Africans have long complained that the world turns a blind eye to the murders taking place in South Africa, but the united show of solidarity during yesterday’s #BlackMonday marches and gatherings did succeed in getting the world’s attention. See below. However, the brandishing of the old apartheid-era flag by a handful of racist supporters […]

The Presidency has issued a statement rejecting the allegations in the Sunday Times on Sunday 29 October 2017, claiming wrongdoing by South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma in relation to undeclared funds. The claims are made in investigative journalist Jacques Pauw’s new book “The President’s Keepers” (out today), of which the newspaper has serialised excerpts. The […]

In her own #MeToo admission, Vytjie Mentor alleges in her new book “No Holy Cows” that she was assaulted by South African President Jacob Zuma. The ex-MP, who has previously spoken out about Zuma and his relationship with the Gupta Family, alleges that during a meeting he “suddenly shoved his hand in between my thighs” […]

Tshwane Mayor Solly Msimanga says he is hoping to sell the multi-million rand official mayoral residence in order to build at least 40 or 50 houses for the poor. Msimanga invited journalists on a tour of the controversial Pretoria mayoral mansion which the DA hopes to sell for approximately R5-million. The DA-led Tshwane Council voted […]

Public Protector (PP) Busisiwe Mkhwebane has decided to launch an investigation into the funding of a trip to Dubai, taken by Fikile Mbalula, former Minister of Sport and Recreation, and his family. The investigation follows a request made by civil rights watchdog AfriForum, after allegations were made by an EWN investigation that Sedgars Sport, a sporting […]

It was all change on Tuesday in South Africa as President Jacob Zuma announced yet another reshuffle of the National Executive and a new SABC board. In a statement, Zuma announced the following new cabinet appointments: Hlengiwe Mkhize has been appointed as the Minister of Higher Education and Training Ayanda Dlodlo is the Minister of […]

The DA says it is not surprised by President Jacob Zuma’s Cabinet reshuffle, the “latest move in Zuma’s war against anyone who opposes his project of State Capture”. The obvious target, says the DA, was SACP leader, Dr. Blade Nzimande, who follows Pravin Gordhan, Derek Hanekom, Mcebisi Jonas and others who have “failed to toe […]

It seems to be Zuma Statue/Monument Season… as less than a fortnight after the unveiling of a Zuma Monument (the questionably named ‘Jacob Zuma’s Capture Site‘) in South Africa, Nigeria has unveiled a large statue in the SA President’s honour! And not just a statue. Nigeria has also named a road after Zuma – the […]

You know people, I am still thinking about the meaning of the reinstatement of the charges, no matter whether No 1 thinks he can still delay the inevitable… writes Marianne Thamm. There are so many to thank for it and it has been a long road. On that journey we have begun to shape who […]

The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has Friday morning rejected President Jacob Zuma’s appeal to challenge the 2016 North Gauteng High Court ruling, concerning the Spy Tapes saga, that set aside the decision to drop 783 corruption, fraud and racketeering charges eight and a half years ago. Opposition parties have welcomed the news. The EFF […]

Public Protector (PP) Busiswe Mkhwebane has been asked to launch an investigation into the alleged payment of at least R300,000 – and possibly as much as R680,000 – by sporting goods supplier Sedgars Sports, for a trip to Dubai by Minister Fikile Mbalula and his family in 2016. At the time Mbalula was South Africa’s sports minister. […]

In 2007, barely a year after the man who went on to become South Africa’s president, Jacob Zuma, was acquitted on a charge of raping a young woman called “Khwezi” (the name given to Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo during her rape trial), gender activist Mmatshilo Motsei published “The Kanga and the Kangaroo Court”. The book was an unsparing account […]

The Democratic Alliance (DA) today marched to a spot 900 metres from the Gupta Family’s compound in wealthy Johannesburg suburb, Saxonwold. They couldn’t get any closer to what they are calling “President Jacob Zuma’s REAL capture site”, due to an agreement with the family who had threatened an application to interdict the march. “Today we […]

President Jacob Zuma today officially opened the Groot Marico Heritage Site and the Liberation Heritage Route of Bokone Bophirima… where activists once crossed as they went into exile in countries like Zambia and Tanzania to continue the struggle against apartheid and colonialism. In pictures and inscriptions, the Heritage Site – near Zeerust in the North […]