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We all know about the various number plate scamming and corruption in various departments that goes on under the radar, right? Well it may have just been blown WIDE open.
This looks like the making of a scandal, folks. One which could end Mamphela Ramphele’s political career before it has even really started. Is this why she formed Agang SA or are we getting ahead of ourselves?
Eish. We kinda knew that stuff like this was on its way. An article, entitled “Mandela’s Death Highlights How Messed Up South Africa Is Now” was recently published on Business Insider.
Produced and published by Shaun Gunning, this video (and supporting document) is without a doubt the most comprehensive and emphatic argument for why the E-Tolls project cannot succeed without major taxpayer support to the tune of billions of Rands in bailouts over the course of the next few decades. It also provides strong circumstantial evidence […]
While the ANC was busy pointing fingers at Thuli Madonsela for leaking the Nkandla report, South Africa slipped to its lowest-ever spot on the global corruption charts.
Public protector, Thuli Madonsela, has come through with the goods yet again. This time, they come in the form of three damning reports that expose gross misconduct, deceit, unlawful acts and outright corruption at the highest level of government.
The very dodgy son of the dictator of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, wants Michael Jackson’s famous bejeweled glove back.The very dodgy son of the dictator of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, wants Michael Jackson’s famous bejeweled glove back. Last week the US government attempted to seize over $71 million (R726,863,226) worth of assets from Nguema
It has been widely reported that the Free State Government’s R100 million website is based on a $40 WordPress template To demonstrate just how quick and easy it should have been to build the website, eNCA web developer, Jason Adriaan set out to whip up a replica. And what were the results? Craig’s version cost […]
Arch Duke of South Africa’s internet, Arthur Goldstuck has filed a shocking report on his website, detailing the breakdown of costs for the planning, construction of the Free State Government website, which was reported to have cost R140 million, a figure that Free State director general Elzabe Rockman said was actually something more like R40 […]
We received a tip in the comments section of the this post yesterday, that a gentleman by the name of Siyanda Dondashe is one of the people sitting on a bag of gold from the R140 million (or R40 million, depending on which report you believe) website redesign deal for the Free State Government. Cherry […]
And no company website, apparently. Welcome to Cherry Online Design, a company whose mission it is to “be the best Webdesign,Graphic Design and software developers in the Free State”. At R1 000 a minute, they better be
The Free State Government has reportedly spent R140 million to redesign their website over a period of three years. The deal was signed off by director general Elzabe Rockman, who now claims that the tender was for R40 million and not the reported R140 million. The basic WordPress theme on which the site was built costs […]
The South African Football Association (Safa) has reinstated its chief and four other leading officials suspended over a match fixing scandal involving the national team. The move comes less than two weeks before we are to host the African Nations Cup finals.
The Witness reported today that a KwaZulu-Natal teacher has been chillaxing on sick leave for eight years while the Department of Education has been faithfully paying her salary every month. Crazy.
The Mail and Guardian is reporting that the long-running investigation by the Hawks into allegations of fraud and corruption by former ANC Youth League president Julius Malema is almost at an end, and an arrest is immanent.
A report in the New Age this morning revealed that Jackie Selebi had not been to Steve Biko Hospital in Pretoria for a week – but it didn’t take long for someone to find out that he is now receiving private treatment elsewhere.
Jakie Selebi is on a dialysis machine, but in getting one has seemingly jumped the queue at Steve Biko Academic Hospital where 82 patients were on the waiting list.
Correctional Services Minister Sibusiso Ndebele announced that disgraced former police commissioner, Jackie Selebi will be released from prison today.
This is not a pleasant statistic to read, especially the day before Madiba’s birthday. The Special Investigations Unit (then the Scorpions, now the Hawks), in conjunction with the South African Security Agency, have revealed that the numbers for corruption are far higher than they should be.
South Africa’s elite police unit, the Hawks, have opened an investigation into allegations of corruption at MTN. This follows news reports yesterday of a senior former MTN Group executive admitting to bribing South Africa’s former ambassador to Iran following a successful license purchase.
Two of the three advocates responsible for assessing evidence before the arms deal commission have been removed from the case. Apparently they are “no longer available to serve” for “reasons that cannot be disclosed”. Make of that what you will.
Police commissioner Bheki Cele is currently suspended. It is also recommended that he be fired and that a criminal investigation be launched into his involvement regarding the irregular awarding of police headquarter leases worth R1,7bn. But Cele has now allegedly written to President Jacob Zuma, asking to be reinstated. As easy as that.
SABC Radio and The New Age newspaper have reported that Julius Malema’s expulsion from the ANC has been upheld. As from today, 24 April 2012, Julius Malema is no longer a card-carrying member of the ANC, and holds no office in the party, or any of it’s organs.
Tired of reading how high-raking police officials are sometimes the most corrupt of all? Here is your chance to not only propose a solution, but also possibly win some cash! Lobbyist Hugh Glenister announced yesterday that he would award R100 000 to a young southern African who can offer the best remedy for developing an anti-corruption framework for specialised police unit, the Hawks. Details inside.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, recently charged for involvement in a prostitution ring, is also being accused of raping a hotel housekeeper – and since he seems to be losing that whole prostitution thing, he’s had his lawyers try to dismiss the case because his former position as head of the International Monetary Fund gives him “absolute immunity.”
25 people have been arrested for alleged ties to hacktivist movement Anonymous in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain in the joint ‘Operation Unmask,’ which I’m sure has nothing to do with the INTERPOL website being taken down yesterday and everything to do with attacks against websites in Columbia and Chile dating from the middle of 2011.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, that former head of the IMF who totally didn’t rape anybody, is being questioned by French police as a suspect in a prostitution ring inquiry, a prosecutor says. The man who was probably going to be the next president of France could be held for up to 48 hours.
A bunch of emails have been leaked from the Heartland Institute, the think tank vaguely infamous for being at once massively skeptical of climate change and funded by billionaire global warming deniers, the Koch Brothers. The emails suggest that the Institute has been paying scientists and bloggers to discredit climate change research.
Julius Malema is going to be climbing an uphill battle in his latest legal wrangle because of the white minority controlling South Africa’s judicial system. At least, that’s the point he seemed to be making during footage released today of the ANC Youth League lekgotla held last week.