Vietnam’s graft crackdown, dubbed “Blazing Furnace”, has seen hundreds of senior state officials and high-profile business executives prosecuted, or executed.
Powell and Roux point out that the new corruption offence shakes up South Africa’s anti-corruption laws in a big way.
To illustrate just how diabolical these perpetrators can be, the NPA is looking into Lottery money intended for an old age home being used to buy an estate in North West, which has since been turned into a boutique hotel.
A cash-strapped municipality in Limpopo erroneously gave its councillors and officials a double salary Christmas bonus in December.
The ANC’s inability to think beyond the next election, and great love for kickbacks, seems to blind them to the fact that nuclear power is an investment that requires commitment of almost a century. Whoever slides into bed with you is going to be a lover for a long time.
The numbers are straight out of Eskom’s books, which published its consolidated annual financial results, where they even reported a massive financial loss to the company for the year.
The NHI is definitely NOT about access to quality healthcare for all, otherwise, we would have fixed our existing healthcare services.
People are not leaving South Africa because the weather is bad and the people are unfriendly. They are leaving because the ruling government is incompetent and has the economic insight of an empty milk bottle.
Lucky for the Hanekoms, her father had used ‘priority mail’, otherwise they may have had to wait another decade for the package.
So far it seems government is either oblivious to the change, or they are trying to find a cadre with enough competence to switch on the computer machine.
What can you do if someone with a yellow umbrella suddenly decides they don’t cover rain anymore? Absolutely f@#$ all.
Writing ‘ANC’ next to a donga in your street should rather be seen as an ‘honest election campaign’, not a crime.
At this rate, it may be more feasible if the government just goes on holiday and let private companies and citizens take it from there.
Honestly, you can’t really blame the guy for using the 1994 script. What else was he going to say?
As Themba Robin said, “If we can laugh together we can find solutions together!”.
Listening to politicians talking kak all day while pointing fingers at each other don’t inspire much confidence in the future.
Lionel Messi received an ominous threat from unknown gunmen when they opened fire on his in-laws’ supermarket in his hometown of Rosario.
Gordon reiterated that he could not rely on “rumour, suspicion or even what a certain publication calls intelligence. There’s a distinction between that and evidence.” Yes genius, but evidence comes from investigating suspicions, rumours, and intelligence. One would swear that the ministerial Netflix account never streams procedural cop shows. This is first season CSI stuff, man.
“Countries, like airlines, take a long time to die – but die they do.”
Sponsoring Tottenham Hotspurs is another level to a 100m flagpole. Somebody promised someone something.
Somehow, the latest corruption perceptions index reveals South Africa as merely average on an international scale of corruption
Angry resident steals wig from ANC bigwig.
Corruption, openness to briberies, and protests – put these three elements together and you’ve got the epitome of a South African situation.
A state of disaster has been declared in the province and relief funds will be made available. Sadly, you know exactly what that means.
64-year-old Nora Grose, a DA ward councillor in Cape Town, appeared in court yesterday on charges of fraud and money laundering.
Irate parents of pupils from Laerskool Theresapark made the principal kiss the ground after carrying her out of the administration office.
Corruption Watch has just released its Annual Report 2020, outlining the extent to which corruption ran rampant in South Africa last year.
Nelson Mandela set up the foundation to contribute to improving South Africa, but now it’s alleged that the people in charge are lining their own pockets.
Self-styled ‘prophet’ Shepherd Bushiri and his wife finally handed themselves over to Malawian authorities yesterday, after fleeing the country. The couple lives a rather lavish lifestyle.
The SABC is trying to clarify its proposed plan to redefine which devices require a TV licence, and it isn’t going well.