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Scopa to call KPMG to parliament over SARS ‘rogue unit’ retraction

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Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Sopa) will call KPMG to appear before parliament to account on its conduct regarding the SA Revenue Service (SARS) ‘rogue unit’ report and the subsequent withdrawal of some parts of this report, it said in a statement on Monday. Scopa’s ANC study group whip Mnyamezeli Booi said: “KPMG must..
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As the ANC crumbles, it’s time to choose

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The majority of South Africans, especially black people, are seriously disillusioned. They believe they have been abandoned at sea by their trusted captain. The problem is that black people had bought into the propaganda that the ANC was ordained to rule “until Jesus Christ comes back”. It is now more than clear to all thinking..
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Can we believe this: ‘I didn’t conspire with Zuma’ – Mkhwebane

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Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has denied conspiring with the presidency and State Security Agency‚ saying her office remains independent. In papers filed in the High Court in Pretoria‚ the Reserve Bank accused Mkhwebane of meeting with President Jacob Zuma’s office and the State Security Agency before releasing her report on missing apartheid funds. The report..
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Minister’s Benz: Going… going … gone …. for R10!

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A Mercedes-Benz sedan belonging to Defence and Military Veterans’ Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula was sold for a lousy R10 during an auction in King William’s Town on Thursday morning. This after it was placed under the hammer after Mapisa-Nqakula had failed to settle a R50000 debt to a King William’s Town garage which had worked on..
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Johan Rupert: “Radical economic transformation is just a code word for theft”

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South Africa’s richest man Johann Rupert said “radical economic transformation,” the policy championed by the country’s President Jacob Zuma to reduce racial inequality, is no more than theft. “Radical economic transformation is just a code word for theft,” Rupert said on the sidelines of Richemont’s annual general meeting in Geneva on Wednesday. “That’s what’s happening..
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SAA cash crunch deepens as suppliers have still not been paid

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South African Airways (SAA) appears to have exhausted its available cash reserves following news that suppliers have still not been paid for work done in July. The airline has thirty-day terms with a number of suppliers that provide essential services to it. They had not been paid at the end of last week, a week..
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Unemployment fund’s assets currently valued at R110bn – Hopefully the government will keep their hands off

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The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) currently has assets valued at R110-billion‚ Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant disclosed on Monday. In a written reply to a parliamentary question by Democratic Alliance labour spokesman Michael Bagraim‚ Oliphant said that while the projected monthly contributions from September 1 2017 to August 31 2018 were expected to total R1.58-million‚ the..
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Squabbles dim DA’s hope of 2019 win

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Worsening relations between the Democratic Alliance and smaller opposition parties are threatening the party’s hopes of assuming power nationally in 2019 by forming a coalition government. On Tuesday, when the DA brought a motion to dissolve Parliament, its opposition allies would not support it. The smaller opposition parties accused the DA of being arrogant for..
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Cyril Ramaphosa’s leaked emails: Echoes of apartheid-era dirty tricks

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A routine smear. This is the view of the overwhelming majority of commentators and analysts about last weekend’s “revelations” in the Sunday Independent that Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa was a serial womaniser. The commentariat can expect more such smears. They will come against more than one candidate running for the presidency of the governing ANC..
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Malema lying about ‘personalised invitation’ to Magaqa’s funeral – KZN ANCYL

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The ANCYL in KwaZulu-Natal has accused EFF leader Julius Malema of “being a person of such low character”, after “he lied about being personally invited” to attend the funeral of former ANCYL secretary general Sindiso Magaqa. Provincial secretary Thanduxolo Sabelo on Wednesday said he had only made a comment as a gesture on Monday during..
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