Thursday, 20 August 2026

Fadiel Adams returns to the Madlanga Commission with questions still centred on the Section 27 affidavit, his sources, and emails showing he had received a Rule 3 notice he earlier denied seeing.

The DA removed Mark Burke from Parliament’s Finance Committee and finance cluster after a South African Reserve Bank probe into Castello raised reasonable suspicion of exchange-control contraventions worth about R4 billion.

NSFAS remains under heavy scrutiny after the Public Protector flagged long-running governance and operational failures; the Higher Education Department says the minister has already acted lawfully to stabilise the scheme.

A CDE report argued Johannesburg’s collapse could drag down the country, warning that nine mayors in 10 years, weak maintenance and unstable coalition politics have left the city unable to plan long term.