Oceana accused of sabotaging SA’s horse mackerel harvest
About 18 businesses had in 2020 gathered to discuss challenges in the sector and had taken Oceana and its subsidiary to court along with the Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and Environment (DFFE) over the unfair distribution of horse mackerel rights.
Big business muscles out SMME in Cape Town’s Formula bid for E-Movement
Recently awarded bidder e-Movement may have not submitted documentation or proposals on the Cape Town Formula E track to the City of Cape Town, before being awarded the bid for the City’s first Grand Prix event.
Russians warn of arbitration against South Africa
Attorneys say their client was defrauded of R458 million
Municipal manager lied about qualifications
An anti-corruption organisation in the North West is calling for the removal of Mamusa Local Municipality manager Ruben Rantsho Gincane for allegedly misrepresenting himself during a job interview in November 2020, to secure a senior position.
’Mayco member lied about not funding the Strandfontein shelter’
Mayco member for community services and health, Zahid Badroodien, is accused of lying after he said the City of Cape Town was not funding a Strandfontein shelter which will house 100 homeless people as of August 1.
Looted black-owned businesses ’will suffer more due to lack of support from banks
’The current looting is as a result of apartheid and colonialism’
Businesses and the underprivileged are affected by Saldanha’s LPG port closure
Vitol has declared a force majeure to end operations at Sunrise Energy's import terminal at Saldanha in the Western Cape as a result of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) shortages.
ENSafrica set to be sued for accepting a case knowing it represents both parties
Mendiswe Mzamane is set to take legal action against ENSafrica after the law firm allegedly agreed to represent her company while it sat on the panel of the enterprise she was suing.
Ombud service ‘has power to address any discrimination in banking and put it right’
The Banking Ombudsman Services of SA has argued that if banks are found guilty of any misconduct, including discrimination, then the ’OBS has the power to put things right’.
WCED under fire for protecting official involved in bribery
Concerns have been raised over the underbelly of the Western Cape ’s education system, following continuous cases of bribery and corruption by senior officials serving under the WCED.
Oceana Trust beneficiaries take the battle for empowerment to Parliament
Members of Parliament have called on the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (Deff) to investigate top fishing company Oceana following damaging allegations of black economic empowerment (BEE) transgression by some former and current employees.
WATCH: ’Give back our money Oceana’
Officials of top fishing company Oceana were forced to collect a memorandum of demands when more than 100 angry protestors rocked up in front of their head office in Foreshore on Wednesday.
Non-functioning legal ombud leaves complainants helpless
THE STAR - Concerns have been raised over the office of Legal Service Ombudsman, appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa in December, for a seven-year term, but has still not taken office.
AYO’s Mgoqi calls for probe into smear campaign
AYO Technology Solutions yesterday requested Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance (SCoF) to investigate a 2018 smear campaign that has brought major damage to the tech firm.
Oceana faces probe over BEE fraud claims
Oceana is being investigated for a black economic empowerment transgression after beneficiaries of a trust set out to empower them allegedly disappeared with millions due to them.
Oceana may face fraud charges as black employees cry foul
Black employee beneficiaries of the Oceana Empowerment Trust say they are laying charges against the fund’s trustees after they allegedly registered and transferred the employee’s shares to themselves.
Beaufort West Municipality implicated in fraudulent contract handover
Beaufort West Municipality skips tender process to fraudulently award an existing contract with the Traffic Environment Services and Technologies to an unregistered white-owned business through the dealings of a municipal manager.
Pensioner’s 40-year-long struggle to retrieve inherited house
Richard Benson claimed crooked attorneys have swindled him out of the home he inherited from his mother and money.
Questions over Edward Kieswetter’s link to African Unity Life
Kieswetter, who currently has shares in AUL, was an appointed chairperson of the company’s board during the time the irregularities were made in 2018 and had resigned from the position to take on a new opportunity at Sars.
Concern over Table Mountain tender process
THE first official tender process to make it possible for black-owned businesses to fully manage Table Mountain will only take place in 2025
Union calls for action on Private Security Sector Provident Fund corruption
Detawu Secretary General Vusi Ntshangase said the union had written to the FSCA on November 16th with urgency and wanted all those who unduly benefited from the fund to be legally pursued, including board members and service providers
Race to trace lawyers defaulting on clients
The total of claims submitted to the Legal Practitioners' Fidelity Fund (LPFF) since January 2015 to at least 1327.
How Sefa helped Greek national fraudulently retrieve R2m from black business
Independent Media’s Investigations Unit has reliably learnt how Sefa officials allegedly helped a Greek national to fraudulently retrieve a R2 million loan from the bank account of a black female-owned business in 2015.
‘Senior judge broke the law’
Judge accused of engaging in unlawful conduct by running ‘parallel roll’ and granting prejudicial ex parte orders
Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams in R1. 8bn TV aid scandal
Digital Terrestrial Television project was supposed to benefit Grade 12 pupils at the start of the Convid-19 pandemic but has not yet taken flight