The chief of the Black Business Council (BBC) Danisa Baloyi has been suspended from her position, following a donation of R5 million going missing. The deal involved the Airports Company SA (ACSA). They said the donation had been brokered by Baloyi and that her office specifically instructed that the money be paid to Merit Energy. They […]

Shocker!

That not-so-infectious laugh has a habit of showing up at the worst times.

Almost half of respondents believe that it’s not possible to get through a day in South Africa without paying a bribe…

President Makhosi Khoza? Don’t rule anything out in politics…

State Security Minister Bongani Bongo is now in the DA’s crosshairs. We didn’t know State Security and bribery went together?

Not all is well in the house of the DA…

The DA-run City of Johannesburg has announced the cancellation of a “corrupt” contract which was put into place while the ANC was in power.

Shocking report reveals R700 000 bill for a government minister’s new braai area. What a smack in the chops for the SA tax payers.

He’s warning us to ‘take our money elsewhere’

The former Finance Minister and current ANC MP has warned that Moody’s visiting the country would not be a good sign. Can SA make it through?

The State Security Agency (SSA) has once again sent a cease and desist letter to Jacques Pauw and the book’s publishers. Will they win?

R53 million rand spent for less than 200 torches. This isn’t a gangster movie folks, it is just another day in South Africa.

Are we really even surprised that a Zuma birthday party has been linked with corruption? Most South Africans probably aren’t…

A whirlwind of allegations against Jacob Zuma isn’t new. But this time, the president’s reaction is alien. Has JZ been undone by ‘The President’s Keepers’?

Shocking amounts of money.

Activists to voice their displeasure at Zuma

Former Eskom CEO Matshela Koko’s disciplinary hearing is keeping with the power utilities recent tradition of being a total disaster.

Former Eskom CEO Koko has been accused of wrongdoing before, now, the media has uncovered another huge corruption scandal

The Eskom parliamentary inquiry has been revealing even more dirt on the now infamous power company. From state capture to missing trillions.

Bonang Mohale claims state capture has ’caused havoc’ with the economy

A bullish Mmusi Maimane has put Zuma right in his place over the spy tapes saga…

Has he tried telling his colleagues, though?

Remember those Olympic uniforms?

The ANC’s biggest problem? Corruption in all its forms and across multiple leaders. This survey shows that it might not be as big a problem with voters.

The police chief has vowed weed out the force’s ‘rogue elements’

Corruption in South Africa? Surely not!? If you’re sick of local authorities doing nothing about it, then just wait for the global boys to step in…

We all know there is corruption flowing through far too many sectors of our country. We know bribes happen but we didn’t really know that someone would actually accept a R40 bribe. Well, this traffic officer has just been arrested for doing exactly that. The 55-year-old traffic officer in Johannesburg has was arrested after allegedly taking […]

Gerrie Nel is dropping bombshells just hours after agreeing to represent Gabrielle Engels

The outspoken MP is paying the price for standing up to Zuma’s regime

Somadoda Fikeni believes the ANC’s demise is causing significant financial pressure on their members

From the vote of no confidence to SAA’s corruption allegations, Carte Blanche continues to give South Africans at home and abroad, lots to consider.

Her 12-point blog had as much power behind it as a 12-bore shotgun

Government officials and dishonesty? No. Say it ain’t so…

Mayor Mashaba lays down a ‘Sevilla’ sanction for the state-funded jet-setter

That’s a pretty crappy deal for everyone except the middleman “agent”.

Is Cyril really the “guardian of the good”?

Another one bites the dust for Eskom?

They’ve had little to no success in any of their current or previous portfolios, yet the ANC’s been rewarding them regardless.

Ordinary Zimbabweans are starving while Robert Mugabe’s closest allies scrape the bottom of the state coffers for whatever gravy is left.

Thieves stole specific computers containing incriminating info

City Mayor Herman Mashaba vows to root out any criminal activity

Has the president’s time come?

Cutting the budget of an investigative corruption team? Yep. Not suspicious at all, JZ…

The case does not relate to the Gupta family, though.

Minister highlights how undermined she has been by her own department

While revelations around the extent of the Gupta family’s network of captured government individuals holds everyone’s focus, there’s another cover-up playing out right in front of our eyes.

We wish this was an April fool’s joke… alas.

“Hey big spender! Forge that tender!”

Hennie Van Vuuren’s 624-page exposé on the economic crimes of Apartheid targets corruption from within, and the heinous financial methods of survival the regime used.

Ramaphosa is on the up, Zuma and his allies… not so much.

High levels of corruption and road accidents have led the department to rethink the effectiveness of the current testing system.

Another cellular fraud incident.

As the paceman completed his fall from one-time world number one ODI bowler to banishment by CSA, the interwebz wasn’t angry, just disappointed in old Lopsy. Very disappointed.

A report released over the weekend shows that a company linked to acting Eskom CEO Matshela Koko’s stepdaughter had made a considerable donation to the ANC for it’s January 8 birthday bash.

One of Jacob Zuma’s most vocal cheerleaders and minister of water and sanitation, Nomvula Mokonyane has bumped up the salaries of her controversial Cuban engineers by a staggering R11.1 million.

Dear Mr President. I write this letter because I feel angry. And confused. Angry, confused and betrayed. I am writing to you, Mr President, in desperation as a young South African citizen, deeply concerned about the direction our country is heading in under your leadership.

Local is lekker, but paying the bills even more so.

Back in March the Sunday Times reported that acting Eskom CEO Matshela Koko had helped some R1.8 billion worth of tenders find their way to a company of which his stepdaughter is a director, but Koko denied any wrongdoing.

The removal of South Africa’s finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, is the greatest threat to public finances experienced in the post-1994 era.

Communications minister Faith Muthambi has lashed out at the media for reporting on the R41 million spent by government on luxury vehicles for cabinet ministers between 2014/16.

Jacob Zuma’s loyalists might see his renewed vigour in helping capture Treasury as a sign of strength, but they’ve got this one catastrophically wrong.

So many South Africans already have so little, to have to put up with crooked cops on top of that.

An illuminating report puts the Guptas, Zuma and UK PR firm Bell Pottinger at the centre of what was allegedly an orchestrated campaign to divert attention away from state capture by shifting media focus to ‘white monopoly capital’.

South Africa’s Constitutional Court has repeatedly stepped in to protect vulnerable people and to perform what former deputy chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke calls its “transformative role”.

South Africa’s social grants fiasco begs the question: was it orchestrated to undermine the judiciary and the constitution and hide sheer incompetence on the part of government?

Yeah, that’s the highest one this week, folks.

Corruption is leading to instability in South Africa, which in turn poses a threat to the country’s national security.

The departments of communications, social development, water and sanitation, transport and now energy… unable to perform their most basic tasks, yet the ministers in charge walk away unscathed.

Party policy head honcho Jeff Radebe has made a pretty grim, but refreshingly honest assessment of the ANC’s prospects and the party needs to take heed.

Hmmm, it would seem as if there’s more to Wednesday’s Prasa shuffle than what transport minister Dipuo Peters would have us think… if we take former board chair Popo Molefe’s word for it that is.

First the SABC and now Prasa… our SOEs aren’t doing all that well.

The nerve of some people, hey?

The Passenger Rail Agency has been limping from one scandal to another for years now, yet government seems to relish the opportunity to appoint questionable individuals one after the other.

So the South African government deployed a man who failed his security clearance to one of the most important diplomatic posts in the corps?

President Zuma’s speech is historically meaningless in that it is not a milestone of any professed historical mission.

Minister of land reform Gugile Nkwinti helped his buddies procure a R97 million farm in Limpopo, even though neither had any agricultural experience nor any ancestral claim to the land.

When Nomvula Mokonyane isn’t shouting down Zuma’s detractors in parliament, she dabbles in playing minister of water and sanitation… albeit not very well it would seem.

Despite the town suffering from a lack of service delivery, collapsing road infrastructure and water and sanitation mismanagement; the ruling party treated its mayor to a brand new ML.

Frank and to the point as ever.

An expose by the Sunday Times has shed some light on SA’s high commissioner to the UK, Obed Mlaba, and just what he’s reportedly been getting up to over there.

Progressive Professional Forum president and former Cabinet spokesman Jimmy Manyi has slammed parliament’s approved Financial Intelligence Centre Amendment bill, saying it could expose money-laundering donors and seriously damage the ANC.

Former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng and minister of sport Fikile Mbalula’s wife are embroiled in a housing scandal running into the hundreds of millions.

A pretty shocking new report claims Dudu Myeni used millions meant for charity and donated it to other causes, including Zulu king Goodwill Zwelithini’s wedding.

One ANC councillor and five branch members have been arrested after they allegedly targeted a woman who exposed corruption in their municipality.

Acting police commissioner Kgomotso Phahlane’s in a spot of trouble, and Ipid’s been given a warrant to raid his R8 million Pretoria residence.

The president’s rather chuffed with the progress being made.

Herman Mashaba is cleaning house after the city’s new anti-corruption unit identified 106 ANC officials responsible for around R14 million lost to corruption under the previous administration.

The ruling party’s just about ready to kick off its 105th birthday celebration and, while the NEC hopes for the best, South Africans on social media had other plans.

Last month, South Africans reeled from the revelations about state capture following the release of former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s State Capture report.

Zimbabwe’s economy has all but collapsed, with the majority of what’s left of the population living below the breadline; yet the first family spends millions on jewelry.

“Tell me what is it that I have done wrong? And when I ask them, they run out of answers.” Well, we can think of a few. You know, off the top of our heads.

As if anyone needed any more proof to permanently remove dear leader Motsoeneng, EWN’s got hold of some pretty damning evidence implicating Muthambi’s favourite in a R42 million fraud scandal.

Recently, on a hot afternoon in Cape Town, I decided to brave the local radio stations on my drive home from work. That day was the day the SABC ‘elite’ walked out on Parliament – a smug-looking Motsoeneng followed by his acolytes committed an act of contempt against Parliament by refusing to take part in the SABC Inquiry.

Despite a deteriorating economy, corruption and cash shortages, Robert Mugabe’s supporters believe he should stay in power forever.

The presidency has released a statement saying it has received and accepted the SABC’s beleaguered board chairperson, Mbulaheni Maguvhe’s resignation.

Bathabile Dlamini is in trouble again, this time for awarding a CPS tender, meant to help millions of vulnerable South Africans get their social grants, to her buddies.

Optimum Coal Mine has failed to pay an R4.2 million invoice to a company contracted to build a new state-of-the-art public health clinic.

The head of the revenue service and Zuma bestie has become the newest target of the anti-corruption watchdog.

Ey, Mr. Zuma, 2016’s been a tough one, especially for you. But, you see, it didn’t have to be this way, man. Let me tell you why in the simplest way I can.