Energy Minister David Mahlobo may only have been in office since October but the head of South Africa’s most shuffled ministry has made it clear that he intends to force through the multibillion-rand nuclear deal his predecessors have failed to achieve. The third...
Des van Rooyen has not been able to shed the dubious label of being President Jacob Zuma’s political lackey and one of the key players in state capture. “Weekend Special”, a nickname he was given after his controversial appointment as minister of finance in 2016,...
For a government department to exceed its targets by 32 points sounds like a bad joke. But if economic development, steered by the pedantic Ebrahim Patel, puts it in one of his slick PowerPoint presentations, you had best believe it is true. The department spent 98.6%...
It is not clear whether Minister of Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa buckled under pressure from her colleagues in other portfolios to grant permission for mining in environmentally sensitive areas or to fight rights groups in the courts over the contentious issue of...
Faith Muthambi should have been hauled before a court to answer treason charges after the leaked Gupta emails revealed she had shared confidential Cabinet documents with the politically connected Gupta family. Instead, the former communications minister was rewarded...
