Category South Africa

Return of funds to Treasury ‘points to graft’

The Democratic Alliance (DA) in the North West has accused prime minister Bushy Maape of protecting MECs, department heads and supply chain management directors after underspending R1 billion for the 2021-22 financial period. Poor service delivery The DA member of…

‘I actually won some of my cases’

Despite losing several cases – in some of which she was forced by the court to pay personal costs – Public Protector (PP) advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane yesterday denied that she had lost “every case”. Throughout his testimony this week, Mkhwebane…

T-Rex skeleton set to sell for millions

A curator gingerly fastened the bones of pointed claws with thin metal wires, completing perhaps the largest construction kit in the world – reassembling the 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus-Rex called Trinity. The huge skeleton will be auctioned off in Switzerland next…