Month: November 2024
News24 | Hlaudi sidesteps SIU’s efforts to recover R11.5m SABC ‘success fee’
Eight years after former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng was paid a so-called "success fee" of R11.5 million by the SABC, he still hasn't paid it back.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Govt departments spend over R150m on companies linked to state employees – AG
More than R150 million in government tenders went to suppliers linked to state employees, with R121 million of the amount spent between April 2023 and March 2024 going to companies owned or managed by close family members of government employees.
Continue ReadingNews24 | BIG PREVIEW | Proteas taking path to WTC final game by game as tough Sri Lankan challenge awaits
Wednesday's first Test between South Africa and Sri Lanka at Kingsmead is the first of four hurdles that will separate the teams from a place in June's World Test Championship (WTC) final.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Tony Leon | Echoes of populism: The Peronists in Argentina, the Zumas in SA, the Trumps in the US
In many places, countries are or were led by titanic ego-driven populists who use high office as engines for self-enrichment or as instruments of revenge against enemies, real or perceived, writes Tony Leon.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Cape Town schoolgirls unite to take on ‘racist’ pupil who allegedly threatened to rape them
Twelve black girls at a Cape Town school say a pupil threatened to rape and impregnate them so "I can have slaves for the rest of my life" and showed the girls disturbing videos of graphic violence. The girls say the school did nothing about...
Continue ReadingNews24 | Court rules against six white former Dimension Data execs in plot to bypass BEE rules
A court has slammed six former executives of the IT group for cooking up a "brazen and dishonest" scheme to "secretly" gain ownership of the group's Bryanston headquarters.
Continue ReadingNews24 | 57 days of war later, Israel and Hezbollah agree to ceasefire – while Gaza assault continues
Hezbollah previously said there could be no peace while Israel remains in Gaza, while Israel said it had to eliminate any future threat from Hezbollah. Now Western countries are due to support the Lebanese army as a buffer between them.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Daylight robbery: Lawyers accused of embezzling R4.5m from child stricken by cerebral palsy
Sfundo Phiwayinkosi Hlongwane - an 11-year-old boy living with cerebral palsy because of medical negligence - only saw half of his nearly R10-million settlement from the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health, with the balance allegedly embezzled by unscrupulous and greedy lawyers.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Botswana policeman accused of bribing SARS official to get truckload of illicit cigarettes
A Botswana police officer is accused of paying a bribe to have illicit cigarettes released to him.
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