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Malema is meeting Zuma over tea on Friday at the former president’s multimillion-rand Nkandla homestead in KwaZulu-Natal.

Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane succeeded in striking out allegations contained in an affidavit by public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan.

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The State Capture Inquiry has heard explosive evidence that the SSA set aside millions of rands for alleged monthly payments to former president Jacob Zuma.

Leaked US Treasury records offer a glimpse into the business empire of controversial Paramount founder Ivor Ichikowitz.

Zondo commission testimony suggests an external consultant close to former SAA board chairperson Dudu Myeni was brought in to provide a veneer of legitimacy to a plan to oust Eskom executives standing in the way of a Gupta takeover.

Zondo commission testimony suggests an external consultant close to former SAA board chairperson Dudu Myeni was brought in to provide a veneer of legitimacy to a plan to oust Eskom executives standing in the way of a Gupta takeover.

Not even a week since former president Jacob Zuma’s grudging resignation speech, President Cyril Ramaphosa threw him a warm farewell party on Tuesday night in the official residence in Cape Town that Zuma has been vacating. This time it was all smiles, at least on the carefully selected pictures issued, but it’s probably the last time you will see the team like this. By CARIEN DU PLESSIS.

Given that it was the Zuma coterie of rent-seekers who were instrumental in the degradation of key institutions of state that were bent to aid their nefarious purposes, it is not surprising that the former president and his acolytes are now determined to destroy the one constitutional institution that stood against their State Capture project other than the Public Protector under Thuli Madonsela – the judiciary.

While there are those who believe Magashule is growing his support and could one day become more politically powerful than he already is, there is still vanishingly little public support from any ANC bodies for both him and Zuma.

As expected, Jacob Zuma defied a summons to appear before Zondo commission this week, thus almost certainly acting in contempt of a Constitutional Court order. This places Zuma in the same category as the deadbeat dads who fail to pay maintenance and grifters who refuse to repay their creditors. And as is the case with so many petty miscreants, Zuma’s ‘justification’ for his lawless behaviour is both self-serving and legally absurd.

I am convinced that the high tea in the hinterland of KwaZulu-Natal between Jacob Zuma and Julius Malema was anything but intellectual, or for that matter, an attempt to solve challenges that would result in a better world. No, their discussion, I’m afraid, was probably rather more sinister than that.

The FF Plus welcomes the order issued by the Constitutional Court that former President Jacob Zuma must appear before the Zondo Commission of Inquiry to give evidence. This sends the right message to all other individuals who may possibly have to testify, namely that they cannot evade it. In addition, it must be ensured that […]

This application was a last, desperate attempt to avoid public accountability and the apex court has delivered the final word. Zuma’s day has indeed now arrived and there is no corner left in which he can cower.

The State capture Inquiry will continue to hear SSA-related evidence as acting director-general Loyiso Jafta takes the stand.