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Former SA Steel Mills owner Rafik Mohamed has been detained at the Midrand police station in a development that could mark a significant escalation in investigations surrounding the troubled steel manufacturer. Sources familiar with the matter confirmed to the Mail & Guardian on Tuesday night that Mohamed was being held at the police station. The…
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is seeking to recover R8 million linked to the Free State provincial government’s irregular awarding of bursaries in a scandal involving deceased students, foreigners and ineligible beneficiaries, says its acting head, Leonard Lekgetho. The SIU investigated the Free State provincial government’s bursary scheme during former premier Sisi Ntombela’s tenure and…
The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) has pulled off a dramatic financial turnaround, cutting its historically bloated unauthorised, fruitless and wasteful expenditure to zero for the 2025/6 financial year. The second-smallest provincial department by budget allocation is leveraging its savings to bankroll a R20 million digital overhaul aimed at eradicating paper-based bureaucracy,…
The village of uMhlwazi, which sits among the rolling mountains of uMhlumayo in KwaZulu-Natal’s uThukela district, feels forgotten. With barely any services and almost entirely cut off from the rest of the predominantly rural district, daily life in the impoverished village is marked by isolation and hardship. The Mail & Guardian witnessed first-hand the struggles…
The Electoral Commission of South Africa’s (IEC) chief executive, Sy Mamabolo, said the online voter registration portal recorded 376 000 new voters between January and May, with most users being young South Africans, “our primary target of this campaign”. “The total number of registered voters currently stands at 27.9 million South Africans,” he said. “This…
President Cyril Ramaphosa has launched a fresh legal bid in the Western Cape High Court to overturn the 2022 independent panel report that found prima facie evidence he may have committed serious misconduct and violated the Constitution in relation to the Phala Phala farm scandal, as parliament moves closer to constituting an impeachment committee following…
The South African National Editors’ Forum has paid tribute to journalist Baldwin Ndaba, whose death on Friday has left colleagues, friends and South Africa’s media fraternity mourning the loss of a reporter remembered as fearless, humane and deeply committed to public accountability journalism. For those who worked alongside him, Ndaba was more than a byline….
North West businessperson and police informant Brown Mogotsi allegedly attempted to bribe the investigating officer in his staged assassination case, the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court heard on Monday. Mogotsi was remanded in custody for a further three days pending verification of his address. State prosecutor Thami Mpekana said the address was submitted late and had initially…
About 200 foreigners who sought refuge at the Durban Central Police Station, fearing for their safety, want the United Nations (UN) to intervene and protect their stay in South Africa. The group, made up of citizens from various African countries, spent two days sleeping outside the police station, claiming they were fleeing harm in their…
Calls to boycott pharmacy giant Dis-Chem are intensifying after majority shareholder Mark Saltzman publicly attacked journalist Redi Tlhabi over Gaza, turning a social media exchange into a wider argument about corporate identity, philanthropy, political speech and public accountability. The exchange began after Tlhabi responded to a Haaretz article examining the reputational damage Israeli Prime Minister…