Ace fingered in Gupta ‘grand plan’ for building a new city
Former Free State MEC Mxolisi Dukwana says the infamous family offered him millions on the spot to sign off on R41.8 billion tender. He refused and got fired. What role did premier Ace Magashule play?
Could the looting of VBS have been prevented?
The South African Reserve Bank was told about dirty tricks at VBS when they first began in 2016. The Public Investment Corporation was warned that its men on the VBS board were under the sway of Vele Investments. The red flags go back years, but nothing was done.
Limpopo premier Stan Mathabatha tries and fails to interdict City Press
The fallout from his romantic advances on ANC deputy provincial chairperson Florence Radzilani, who is married to a pastor, is drawing in ANC leadership. Mathabatha got ANC Limpopo treasurer Danny Msiza to apologise to pastor Stanley Radzilani on his behalf, and Thoko Didiza, the ANC’s national executive committee’s Limpopo deployee, to broker an apology meeting with Florence. It did not go well.
Abuse and harassment claims rock Lotus FM
Shocking allegations of sexual harassment and abuse are flooding out of Lotus FM, the SABC’s once-popular Indian radio station that has taken a beating from Hlaudi Motseneng’s 90% local music quotas.
Mama Sisulu turns 100
City Press honours Albertina Sisulu on the centenary of her birth with a recap of her remarkable life of activism – and talk to her biographer Sinsiwe Magona.
Between a stimulus and a broke place
New finance minister Tito Mboweni will deliver the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement this week. His position is untenable as his boss, president Cyril Ramaphosa, promises to stimulate the economy but Treasury runs dry. Economist Thabi Leoka unpacks his dilemma.