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ANC metros wasted R2,215 per person

During the 2014/15 financial year, the people of the ANC-run Tshwane, Nelson Mandela Bay and Johannesburg cumulatively lost R2,215 per person to unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure. The worst offender of spending tax money irregularly and wastefully was Nelson Mandela Bay, where on average each resident lost R1,429. The...

Investigate dodgy R256M SAA deal, says DA

The Public Protector has been requested to investigate why the struggling South African Airways (SAA) selected an unknown “boutique financier” - BnP Capital - to advise it on the restructuring of its R15 billion debt and to raise the funding shortfall, in return for an R256 million success fee, which...

ConCourt blasts affirmative action

The Constitutional Court in Braamfontein today ruled that the seven employees of the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) must be promoted and remunerated retrospectively. This comes after they had earlier been denied promotion on the grounds of the DCS’s Employment Equity Plan.

Man murdered over beer

Yes, this man was murdered ‘over a beer’, according to this police report below. Sometimes it’s better to just let the police liaison officer tel the story than to edit it into a ‘real’ news report. Enjoy!  

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