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The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse, OUTA, has described the resignation of South African Airway's audit and risk committee chair, Yakhe Kwinana, as an insincere and selfish move. She was one of only three remaining non-executive directors. She had been a member of the SAA board since 2009. Announcing her resignation on Monday, she said her reputation was at stake. To talk to us further about this...

Businessman and Academic Professor Sipho Pityana hit out at the ANC and President Zuma at the funela of former sports minister and premier of the Eastern Cape Reverend Makhenkesi Stofile. Professor Pityana, called on President Jacob Zuma to step down. Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula responded to Professor Sipho Pityana saying it is for the ANC to decided on recalling its deployees.

Transport Minister, Dipuo Peters, has been criticised after a letter was sent to the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa's board chairman, Popo Molefe, requesting an end to an investigation into irregular tenders at the parastatal. The investigation into PRASA followed several irregularities identified by the Auditor General and the Public Protector. Last year, Thuli Madonsela ordered an investi...

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is today not appearing before the Hawks as summoned by the unit. Gordhan was expected to receive a formal warning, usually issued before a person is charged. Is Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan obliged to appear before the Hawks? To answer that question is the Executive secretary of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC)‚ Lawson Nai...

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan insists he's not going to appear before the Hawks today. The unit had requested to meet him over an investigation into a suspected rogue spy unit in the tax service. Gordhan was speaking at a debate on economic issues affecting the country in Cape Town last night. Mlamli Maneli reports

A Judicial Conduct Tribunal against Western Cape Judge President, John Hlophe can now go ahead some eight years after a complaint was lodged by justices of the Constitutional Court. This was after the Court refused to reconsider its previous decision not to hear an appeal by two of their colleagues. Justices Bess Nkabinde and Chris Jafta, the chief complainants, raised technical procedural points...

Earlier this year, on the 16th of May 2016 to be exact, EFF leader Julius Malema predicted that Pravin Gordhan would be arrested. Speaking during a tour in Khayelitsha township, Cape Town‚ Malema said Gordhan was a better devil

The State Security analyst and former Director for the Country Information Management Unit at the Home Affairs Department, Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane has been recommended as the next Public Protector. This comes after three hours of deliberations to identify the best candidate. The four other candidates Judge Siraj Desai, Judge Erica Weiner, Advocate Muvhango Lukhamaine and Professor Bongani Majo...

Beverage manufacturers are up against the proposed sugar tax. They say it's discriminatory and will impact negatively on the industry. The Beverages Association of South Africa says the move could reduce the industry's contribution to GDP by 14 billion rand. Tshepo Mongoai reports..

The Deputy Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Kebby Maphatsoe, has unreservedly apologized to the former Intelligence Minister, Ronnie Kasrils, for calling him a "traitor", "counter revolutionary" and an "enemy of the people". He has also retracted statements he made alleging that Kasrils was behind a conspiracy to discredit President Jacob Zuma by fabricating the rape case against him. Th...

Academic activities have been disrupted at the Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth after students embarked on a fees must fall protest. Sasco provincial leadership has called for a provincial shut down, to persuade the Department of Higher Education to agree to a national demand for free education. As Olwethu Matsipane reports, the SRC tried to persuade students not to engage in the action...

Markets reacted with shock with the rand plunging to three weeks lows after reports that Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan had been ordered to report to the Hawks by the end of the week. In October of last year when then Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene was fired, economists said the move cost the country billions of rands. What are the economic implications of this probe into the Finance minister? To...

Finance minister, Pravin Gordhan is expected to report to the Hawks tomorrow (thursday) regarding the investigation into a rogue unit at SARS. The unit was set up while Gordhan was still its head. Treasury's spokesperson, Phumza Macanda has confirmed that Gordhan was summoned. However, Hawks spokesperson, Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi says he has no knowledge of this. Earlier we caught up with both...

ANC MP's have vowed that there will be no parliamentary inquiry into what is happening at the SABC. This follows calls from the DA that the situation in the public broadcaster needs to be investigated. The ANC says following the explanation from both the Communications Minister Faith Muthambi and the SABC, there is no need for an inquiry. Joseph Mosia reports

The DA has accused ANC members of the Portfolio Committee on Communications of having backtracked on their support of a proposed parliamentary inquiry into the SABC. DA MP Phumzile van Damme says it is clear that ANC MPs were pressured by Luthuli House. She says in so doing, they turned a blind eye to the rapidly degenerating state of affairs at the public broadcaster. Joining us on the line to di...

Parliament is in full swing this week after two months' adjournment to allow MPS to campaign for the recent municipal elections. The parliamentary committee established to pick the next Public Protector is also expected to nominate the successful candidate from a list of five who have been shortlisted. The SABC will also come under scrutiny in the Portfolio Committee on Communication. Lulama Matya...

Lawyers for the Marikana widows and other claimants, say they will now approach the courts to force the office of the President to move swiftly on talks around compensation. The legal team which has filed claims amounting to over a billion rands, wants the matter to be expedited. Last year, the presidency committed itself to compensate the women who lost their husbands during the Marikana shooting...

Newly-elected Tshwane metro executive mayor Solly Msimanga says EFF and ANC members are recruiting people to occupy vacant land in the municipality. This comes as people have occupied RDP houses in Nelmapius, near Mamelodi, and others are occupying vacant land near Ga-Rankuwa in the north. People occupying the pieces of land say they do so because they have nowhere to live. Meanwhile, another grou...

Newly elected Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba has declared corruption enemy number one in the city. He's also committed to bring change to Johannesburg that he says will create jobs for the people of the city. Mashaba was elected mayor of Johannesburg at a marathon inaugural council meeting last night. He defeated former mayor Parks Tau. We caught up with political and policy analyst Joe Mavuso....

Newly-elected Tshwane metro executive mayor Solly Msimanga says EFF and ANC members are recruiting people to occupy vacant land in the municipality. This comes as people have occupied RDP houses in Nelmapius, near Mamelodi, and others are occupying vacant land near Ga-Rankuwa in the north. People occupying the pieces of land say they do so because they have nowhere to live. Meanwhile, another grou...

More than 200 temporary teachers in Limpopo have not received their salaries since April. The South African Democratic Teachers Union has since threatened to go on strike, should the provincial Department of Education fail to pay the teachers by today (tuesday 23 August). The department says the teachers have not been paid because of an anomaly experienced by the Treasury Department. Shibu Mamokge...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned that America may cut aid to South Sudan if fighting in the country does not stop. Kerry announced a $138-million dollar aid package to South Sudan, but said in future financial help to the world's youngest nation would be tied to the leaders' commitment to peace. The United States is currently the world's largest donor to South Sudan contributing $1.6Bil...

The Kwa-Zulu Natal Education Department has confirmed that one of the victims of a teacher in Nquthu tried to commit suicide at the weekend. The teacher is on the run after a series of videos surfaced of him allegedly committing sexual acts with a number of learners from the Ekucabangeni High School. The teacher allegedly manipulated learners over several years, influencing them into having sexual...

Market Analyst, Clive Ramathibela Asian shares slipping this morning, Pharmaceutical company, Pfizer Inc in deals to acquire cancer drug company, Medivation for close to 14 billion dollar and what's next for Brazil after the Rio olympics

Market Analyst at ETM Analytics, Jana van Deventer looks at the main market movements last week. We saw a standout performance from the energy sector, with oil prices in particular posting very impressive rallies and shifting focus to the week ahead and the main event on the local market is the July CPI data that will be released on Wednesday