Wednesday, 5 August 2026

NSFAS has six major audit findings, a disclaimer audit opinion, 115 overdue internal audit findings and nine material irregularities, including payments to dead students; an administrator’s stabilisation plan was handed to the minister.

The Road Accident Fund is returning to private lawyers through a hybrid litigation model after spending nearly R30 billion on legal costs in five years and sitting with about 100,000 unpaid claims.

MK Party leader Jacob Zuma removed Dr John Hlope as first deputy president, Nkosinathi Nkoleko as national chairperson and Nomsa Lamini as deputy secretary-general, while appointing Duduzane Zuma as first deputy president.

Cape Town’s approval for two Equinix data-centre campuses drew warnings about 174 megawatts of demand, weak disclosure on water and emissions, and foreign control over the digital economy built on local land and power.