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How ex-top cop Khehla Sitole’s arms fiasco cost SA R1bn
Total costs climb to R1bn and SAPS guns go missing amid wrangle over sophisticated firearms permit system
How congregants funded luxury lifestyles of bling pastors
Topping the list of bling pastors who came to South Africa on tourist visas, bribed their way to permanent residency, and built up huge congregations of followers who funded their luxury lifestyles is Shepherd Bushiri, now a fugitive from justice
Reverends of bling: praise the Lord and pass the cash
How Bushiri and a syndicate of African pastors ran an immigration fraud ring and made a mint in the process
Kwane Capital’s Mcebisi Mlonzi due in court on corruption charge
Businessman Mcebisi Mlonzi, two directors of Avis car rentals and officials from the Alfred Nzo district municipality in the Eastern Cape are appearing before the Maxesibeni magistrate’s court on charges of fraud, money laundering and corruption.
Feast for army top brass, famine for troops
Amid preparations for R372m parade, soldiers patrolling borders complain of starvation and lack of medical supplies
WATCH | Edwin Sodi’s empire crumbles amid R50m debt and liquidation
The tender-driven empire of politically connected businessman Edwin Sodi is slowly crumbling under the weight of liquidations, a R50m creditor claim and a bid by authorities to blacklist him from lucrative government contracts.
In whose interest was navy boss Lobese acting?
There was an instruction from President Cyril Ramaphosa, and agreement between all parties concerned, that Iran was no longer going to participate in the navy exercises in Simon’s Town and False Bay, according to his spokesman Vicent Magwenya.
Battle brewing over continued placement of insurer 3Sixty Life under curatorship
Months after burying the hatchet in protracted litigation between insurer 3Sixty Life and the Prudent Authority (PA) another battle is brewing over the regulator’s continued placement of the company under curatorship.
Prasa inquiry into board chair for moving into posh company house
Ailing state passenger rail company Prasa has instituted an internal inquiry into its chairperson Leonard Ramatlakane for occupying one of its properties in Newlands, Cape Town, while his own house is being renovated.






















