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Bowman Gilfillan director Christopher Todd said Siyabonga Gama went to the High Court because he believed that the disciplinary process was a conspiracy, and he believed that there was no merit in the charges against him. A video screengrab of former Transnet CEO Siyabonga Gama. Picture: YouTube JOHANNESBURG – Bowman Gilfillan director Christopher Todd on […]

Madikizela and Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula led a provincial taxi lekgotla on Thursday in Cape Town. WC Transport MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela at the taxi lekgotla in Cape Town on Thursday, 15 October 2020. Picture @MbalulaFikile/Twitter CAPE TOWN – Transport MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela said many people have lost hope the taxi industry can ever be redeemed. […]

Political parties have expressed their unhappiness about not being able to respond to what the president says when President Ramaphosa unveils the plan during this afternoon’s joint sitting of Parliament. The National Assembly of South Africa on 22 May 2019. Picture: @GovernmentZA/Twitter. CAPE TOWN – Political parties say they must be allowed to debate what […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa is presenting government’s coronavirus economic recovery plan to a joint sitting of Parliament. FILE: President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: GCIS CAPE TOWN – President Cyril Ramaphosa said that despite the lower rate of coronavirus infections in the country, it was too soon declare victory in the fight against COVID-19. Speaking in Parliament where […]

The president is focusing on four key areas as he tables his economic recovery plan to a joint sitting of Parliament. President Cyril Ramaphosa in the National Assembly. Picture: @PresidencyZA/Twitter CAPE TOWN – South Africans can expect a jobs-focused economic recovery plan when President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses a joint sitting of Parliament at 2pm. The […]

OPINION In 1987, after a group of Afrikaner leaders and academics broke rank and went to meet the African National Congress (ANC) in Dakar, Senegal, for talks about how to bring democracy and peace in a country that was teetering at the brink of abyss, a new term emerged to define those Afrikaners: the New […]

Former Transnet CEO Siyabonga Gama lost an unfair dismissal dispute and the High Court ordered him to pay the costs to Transnet but instead Transnet decided to pay 75% of his costs. FILE: Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo. Picture: AFP JOHANNESBURG – Former Transnet legal head Siyabulela Mapoma said that his superior laughed at him […]

Former President Kgalema Motlanthe, in response to this week’s clash on social media between Minister Fikile Mbalula and the Umkhonto We Sizwe Military Veterans Associations, said that such incidents were just heated but gave no clarity. FILE: Former President Kgalema Motlanthe. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN JOHANNESBURG – Former President Kgalema Motlanthe on Wednesday said that public […]

SA Express was placed under business rescue in February and the COVID-19 lockdown on 26 March resulted in the grounding of its fleet. Workers said that they had not received any assistance from the Public Enterprises Department. An SA Express airplane. Picture: Supplied CAPE TOWN – SA Express Airways employees want Parliament to intervene after […]

Government has announced the state of disaster will be extended to 15 November, suggesting that the lockdown won’t end until at least then. Cogta Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma briefs the nation on regulations under lockdown level 1, which comes into effect at midnight, on Sunday 20 September 2020., Picture: GCIS JOHANNESBURG – Cooperative Governance and Traditional […]