For the first time in 20 years, the Presidency has started to compose regulations for a state of emergency. Rapport, sister publication of News24, saw the draft regulations in terms of the State of Emergency Act 64 of 1997. In terms of these draft regulations, any security official will have far-reaching powers to act within his or her own judgement, arrest people, search property or cut communication channels such as […]
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is disputing claims that its head, Shaun Abrahams, is one of President Jacob Zuma’s puppets. Abrahams has given Zuma an extra seven weeks to make his case for why he should not be prosecuted for the multimillion-rand fraud and corruption case against him. The NPA had originally given Zuma until the 30th of November to make representations. It is understood the Hawks informed the NPA […]
At the funeral of Laloo Chiba in Lenasia on Saturday, his son-in-law read from a letter that the struggle stalwart had written to his political comrade Jacob Zuma asking him to step down as president. Chiba, 87, a close friend of the late Ahmed Kathrada, died on Friday. Rashid Moosa said his father-in-law had sent the letter last year, expressing his dismay at the state of the ANC following a […]
Investigative journalists Jacques Pauw and Pieter-Louis Myburgh, who have both written about alleged corrupt relationships involving President Jacob Zuma, have been summoned to a meeting at a police station. In a letter to their lawyer on Thursday, seen by News24, Cluster Detective coordinator of Ethekwini Outer North, a Colonel 'R Govender' stated that the pair had been uncooperative. "The tone of your letter is indicative that you have no intention […]
South Africans must choose a new crop of leaders that will stand with those who liberated the country, late president Nelson Mandela's wife Graça Machel said. Machel was speaking at an event held in honour of Mandela in Houghton at the Nelson Mandela Foundation. Mandela died four years ago on December 5. "South Africa, it's in your hands. Stand up and take it...We should get to 2018, having some kind […]
State capture casts a pall over the Democratic Alliance's dim assessment of President Jacob Zuma and his Cabinet for 2017. In what has become a yearly ritual, the DA presented their report card – "an appraisal of the ANC national government’s performance over the past year" – at the Union Buildings on Monday. DA leader Mmusi Maimane said this year "will go down in history as one of the most […]
President Jacob Zuma has until the end of day today to make representations to the National Prosecuting Authority on why corruption charges should not be reinstated against him. The Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed Zuma and the NPA’s bid to appeal a 2016 High Court ruling that a 2009 decision to drop the charges against him was irrational. The charges stem from South Africa's multi-billion rand arms deal. Former NPA […]
National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete has handed a damning affidavit to President Jacob Zuma about allegations that a minister had tried to interfere in a state capture inquiry. Parliamentary public enterprises committee evidence leader Ntuthuzelo Vanara submitted the affidavit‚ claiming that state security minister Bongani Bongo had offered him a blank cheque to resign from the parliamentary probe into Eskom. “The president is acting on it as we speak and […]
The Western Cape appealed for assistance from national government with the drought and water crisis engulfing the province at a meeting of President Jacob Zuma's coordinating council on Tuesday at Tuynhuys, in Cape Town. James-Brent Styan, spokesperson for Western Cape MEC for local government, environmental affairs and development planning Anton Bredell, told News24 that among the things the province requested was drought relief for farmers and emergency relief funds for […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
