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Two-pronged approach to bury ANC’s cadre deployment

Simultaneous action in South Africa’s courts and Parliament could be the final nail in the coffin for the ANC’s practice of cadre deployment, which was recently deemed “unconstitutional” by State Capture Inquiry Chairperson Raymond Zondo in his final report. Speaking to BizNews, the DA shadow minister of public service and…
4 Jul 2022 6AM 19 min

E-tolls decision by October? Don’t hold your breath, according to OUTA

Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula says cabinet will announce its decision on the future of e-tolls as a funding mechanism for Gauteng freeways in October this year. However, Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) chief executive Wayne Duvenage tells BizNews it has heard these sorts of commitments for years. Mbalula told a…
4 Jul 2022 6AM 9 min

'Bloody well just do something' - DA lays criminal charges vs ANC

The DA wants the ANC investigated for systemic and calculated fraud, racketeering, corruption, looting of state coffers, and related offences spanning two decades. DA national spokesperson Cilliers Brink confirmed this in an interview with BizNews in which he expanded on the rationale informing his party’s laying of criminal charges against the…
1 Jul 2022 6AM 10 min

Cough up, ANC, or face liquidation proceedings

The ANC has been ordered to pay KwaZulu-Natal businessman Renash Ramdas about R120m by the close of business on 30 June 2022 or face possible liquidation proceedings. This after the South Gauteng High Court dismissed the ANC's attempt to overturn a previous judgment that the party must pay for 30,000…
30 Jun 2022 9AM 4 min

NYT bestselling author, Dr Robert Lustig: sugar is poison, NOT food

So often, we hear of the harmful effects of processed foods and sugar, but most of us do not listen. BizNews spoke to Dr Robert Lustig, a Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco, who has become a leading public health authority on the impact sugar…
30 Jun 2022 3AM 22 min

It takes a Crook to catch a crook

You may have noticed poles around Gauteng with grey domes attached and cameras poking out. These belong to Vumacam, a company which approaches security in a different way, by providing cameras in key points around the city and allowing security companies to sign up to access the footage. In this…
29 Jun 2022 8AM 7 min

SA banks kowtowed to ANC on Gupta bank account closures

Dr Lumkile Mondi from the Wits School of Economics and Finance says it remains "shocking and very disappointing" that three of the four CEOs of major banks bowed to political pressure and went to meetings at the ANC's Luthuli House. This after being summoned to explain their Gupta bank account…
29 Jun 2022 7AM 6 min
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