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Bosasa
Bosasa was a South African company specialising in providing services to government, most notably prison services. It was controversial for its involvement in corruption allegations exposed during the Zondo Commission of Inquiry. It consisted of Bosasa Group, Bosasa Youth Development Centres, and African Global Operations (formerly Bosasa Operations). History Then known as Dyambu Operations, the company started providing services to prisons in 1995 when it established the Bosasa Youth Development Centres with the Gauteng Department of Social Development when government privatised juvenile detention facilities. Gavin Watson bought Bosasa in the year 2000. The following year in 2001 ANC politician and close associate of the Watson family, Linda (Richman) Mti, became prisons commissioner. The company then received its first large contract from government in 2004 when the Department of Correctional Services awarded it a contract to provide catering services to the prison syste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Watson
Gavin Joseph Watson (12 July 1948 – 26 August 2019) was a South African businessman who served as Chief Executive Officer of African Global Operations, previously known as Bosasa, from 2000 until his death in 2019. His company was implicated in state capture during judicial hearings in January 2019.Angelo Agrizzi claims Gavin Watson tried to ‘buy his silence’ with R50m Retrieved on 26 August 2019.Bosasa had deep relat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zondo Commission
The Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State, better known as the Zondo Commission or State Capture Commission, is a public inquiry established in January 2018 by former President Jacob Zuma to investigate allegations of state capture, corruption, and fraud in the public sector in South Africa. By December 2020, the commission had interviewed 278 witnesses and collected 159,109 pages and one exabyte of data as evidence. It received eight extensions to finish its report, with 15 June 2022 being the end of its mandate. The first part of the report was published on 4 January 2022. The fifth and final part was published on 22 June 2022. It has cost the state close to R1 billion, far more than any prior South African judicial inquiry. History In 2016, the Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, launched an investigation into state capture after receiving formal complaints from Stanislaus Muyebe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nomvula Mokonyane
Nomvula Paula Mokonyane (born 28 June 1963) is a South African politician who is currently the First Deputy Secretary-General of the African National Congress (ANC). She was the first female Premier of Gauteng from 2009 to 2014 and subsequently served in the Government of South Africa, national government as Minister of Water and Sanitation (South Africa), Minister of Water and Sanitation from 2014 to 2018, Minister of Communications (South Africa), Minister of Communications in 2018, and Minister of Environmental Affairs from 2018 to 2019. Born in Gauteng, Mokonyane was a labour, community, and gender activist during apartheid. She was first elected as a Member of the Provincial Legislature, Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature in 1994 South African general election, 1994 and she served as a Member of the Executive Council in Gauteng from 1996 to 2009. Following the 2009 South African general election, 2009 general election, Mokonyane, then the Provincial Chairperson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Ramaphosa
Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa (born 17 November 1952) is a South African businessman and politician who is currently serving as the fifth democratically elected president of South Africa. Formerly an anti-apartheid activist, trade union leader, and businessman, Ramaphosa is also the president of the African National Congress (ANC). Ramaphosa rose to national prominence as secretary general of South Africa's biggest and most powerful trade union, the National Union of Mineworkers. In 1991, he was elected ANC secretary general under ANC president Nelson Mandela and became the ANC's chief negotiator during the negotiations that ended apartheid. He was elected chairperson of the Constitutional Assembly after the country's first fully democratic elections in 1994 and some observers believed that he was Mandela's preferred successor. However, Ramaphosa resigned from politics in 1996 and became well known as a businessman, including as an owner of McDonald's South Africa, chair of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwede Mantashe
Samson Gwede Mantashe, popularly known as Gwede Mantashe, (born 21 June 1955) is a South African politician and trade unionist, who as of 18 December 2017, serves as the National Chairperson of the African National Congress. He is also a former chairperson of the South African Communist Party and Secretary General of the ANC. On the 26th of February 2018, during a cabinet reshuffle by president Cyril Ramaphosa, Mantashe was appointed Minister of Mineral Resources. In May 2019, he became Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, when his earlier portfolio was merged with the energy portfolio. Early life and education Samson Gwede Mantashe was born in 1955 in the village of Cala in the Transkei (now Eastern Cape). He studied at the University of South Africa (Unisa) in 1997, and completed a B.Com Honours degree in 2002. He also acquired a master's degree from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in 2008. He completed his MBA through MANCOSA in 2021. Labour union activitie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dudu Myeni
Duduzile "Dudu" Cynthia Myeni (born 29 October 1963) is a South African businesswoman, a former chairperson of South African Airways SOC Limited, and former executive chairperson of the Jacob Zuma Foundation since September 2008. She is known for her controversial involvement with South African Airways and as a close friend of former president Jacob Zuma. During the Zondo Commission of inquiry into state capture the former chief operating officer of Bosasa Angelo Agrizzi testified that Myeni received monthly illicit payments of R300,000 in cash from them, that was to be given to former president Zuma. On 27 May 2020 at the Pretoria High Court, Judge Ronel Tolmay declared Myeni a Delinquent Director, banning her for life from holding any directorship position. Background Myeni obtained her Primary Teachers Certificate from Madadeni College and her a Secondary Teachers Diploma from Umlazi College. In 2009 the SAA annual report listed a bachelor's degree in administration from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nomgcobo Jiba
Nomgcobo Jiba''wasthe Deputy National Director of Public Prosecutions in South Africa. Early life and education Nomgcobo Jiba obtained her LLB from Walter Sisulu University in 1989 and went on to obtain her master's degree in Commercial Law in 1996. Career Jiba worked as a prosecutor in Peddie magistrate's court in the Eastern Cape in 1988 going on to also practice in courts at Tsolo and Mthatha. She resigned from government in 1997 to work for the legal firm Qunta Ntsebeza in Cape Town so as to work towards becoming an attorney, qualifying in 1998. In 1999 Jiba worked for Deloitte & Touche as a Senior Forensic Consultant in Pretoria and joined the Investigating Directorate for Serious Economic Offences as a Senior State Advocate. The Investigating Directorate was disbanded in 2001 and replaced by the Scorpions whereupon Jiba was appointed Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions. She was appointed Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions in 2006. After the Scorpions wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Contracting
Government procurement or public procurement is the procurement of goods, services and works on behalf of a public authority, such as a government agency. Amounting to 12 percent of global GDP in 2018, government procurement accounts for a substantial part of the global economy. To prevent fraud, waste, corruption, or local protectionism, the laws of most countries regulate government procurement to some extent. Laws usually require the procuring authority to issue public tenders if the value of the procurement exceeds a certain threshold. Government procurement is also the subject of the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA), a plurilateral international treaty under the auspices of the WTO. Overview Need for government procurement Government procurement is necessary because governments cannot produce all the inputs for the goods they provide themselves. Governments usually provide public goods, e.g. national defense or public infrastructure. Public goods are non- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Zuma
Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (; born 12 April 1942) is a South African politician who served as the fourth president of South Africa from 2009 to 2018. He is also referred to by his initials JZ and clan name Msholozi, and was a former anti-apartheid activist, member of Umkhonto we Sizwe, and president of the African National Congress (ANC) between 2007 and 2017. Zuma was born in the rural region of Nkandla, which is now part of the KwaZulu-Natal province and the centre of Zuma's support base. He joined the ANC at the age of 17 in 1959, and spent ten years in Robben Island Prison as a political prisoner. He went into exile in 1975, and was ultimately appointed head of the ANC's intelligence department. After the ANC was unbanned in 1990, he quickly rose through the party's national leadership and became deputy secretary general in 1991, national chairperson in 1994, and deputy president in 1997. He was the deputy president of South Africa from 1999 to 2005 under President Thabo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African Brands
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', cf English meridional), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the Levant). Navigation By convention, the ''bottom or down-facing side'' of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 In South Africa
The following lists events that happened during 2018 in South Africa. Incumbents National Government * President of South Africa ** Jacob Zuma (ANC) – until 14 February ** Cyril Ramaphosa (ANC) – from 15 February * Acting President: Cyril Ramaphosa (ANC) – 14–15 February * Deputy President ** Cyril Ramaphosa (ANC) – until 15 February ** David Mabuza (ANC) – since February * Leader of the Opposition: Mmusi Maimane ( DA) * Chief Justice: Mogoeng Mogoeng * Deputy Chief Justice: Raymond Zondo * President of the Supreme Court of Appeal: Mandisa Maya * Deputy President of the Supreme Court of Appeal: Vacant * Chairperson of the Electoral Court of South Africa: Khayelihle Kenneth Mthiyane * Speaker of the National Assembly: Baleka Mbete (ANC) * Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces: Thandi Modise (ANC) Cabinet The Cabinet, together with the President and the Deputy President, forms part of the Executive. National Assembly Provincial Premiers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gupta Family
The Gupta family is a wealthy Indian-born family with business interests in South Africa, whose most notable members are brothers Ajay, Atul, and Rajesh "Tony" Gupta—as well as Atul's nephews Varun, and US-based Ashish and Amol. The family owns a business empire spanning computer equipment, media, and mining. The family became synomous with corruption in South Africa and has been sanctioned by multiple countries for their activities. In 2016, Atul Gupta became the seventh-wealthiest person in South Africa, with an estimated net worth of R10.7 billion (US$773.47 million), based on JSE-listed holdings. The family migrated from the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh to South Africa in 1993 to establish Sahara Computers. The family was based at the Sahara Estate in Saxonwold, Johannesburg, a compound comprising at least four mansions, until 2016 when they left South Africa for Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In 2022 an Interpol red notice was issued for the arrest of Atul and Rajesh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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