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TimesLIVE - In The News

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1,663 Episodes
1312 – 1332

‘Incredible arrogance’: how the Guptas tried to bully me

Themba Maseko says he used profanities to tell the Guptas to get lost, and earned the ire of his boss then-President Jacob Zuma. The former chief government spokesman shares details of his uncomfortable nteractions with the Guptas and being betrayed by Zuma and others in the ANC, in the memoir,…
4 Jun 2021 1AM 52 min

What next for the Pan African Parliament?

The fourth ordinary session of the fifth Pan African parliament was suspended yesterday, with no resumption date in sight. This follows chaotic scenes during a debate on the organisations elections process, which led to the collapse of an ordinary session held in Midrand this week. At the heart of the…
3 Jun 2021 3AM 6 min

FULL ADDRESS | President Cyril Ramaphosa moves SA to level 2

SA will move to lockdown adjusted level 2 from Monday. President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday already confirmed that tighter restrictions were on the cards as SA enters its third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. He said there has been a sustained average 3,745 daily new infections — a 67% increase…
30 May 2021 12PM 27 min

All you need to know | Zuma returns to court

In what resembled more of a concert than a court case, scores of former president Jacob Zuma’s supporters gathered outside the Pietermaritzburg high court on Wednesday. Inside the courtroom, Zuma pleaded not guilty to charges of racketeering, corruption, fraud and money laundering before presiding judge Piet Koen. Here is everything…
26 May 2021 9AM 7 min

New initiative tries to make the science around Covid-19 easier to understand

Singer-songwriter Nibs van der Spuy plucks at his six-string guitar, sending an African-inspired tune into the Durban air. His audience is enthralled - but it is an audience of just one person, virus expert Prof Tulio de Oliviera. The two are sitting outside, 2m apart, and chatting as part of…
21 May 2021 10AM 10 min

What legal action is being taken by the Myeni family?

Court documents filed by Lindsay Myeni's attorney, James Bickerton, claim the trio of police officers who shot Lindani Myeni, had failed to announce that they were police officers. According to the court papers: “The failure of the officers to announce they were police officers or declare their purpose was not…
21 May 2021 5AM 10 min

ANC KZN secretary Mdumiseni Ntuli speaks out about being booed outside court

ANC KZN secretary Mdumiseni Ntuli will tomorrow release a report into the people who booed him and provincial chairperson Sihle Zikalala when they showed support for former President Jacob Zuma who appeared in court today. This report, Ntuli told TimesLIVE, will show that people are being brought in "carrier bags"…
17 May 2021 1PM 12 min

Israeli-Palestinian violence flares up

Palestinian protesters threw rocks and Israeli police fired stun grenades and rubber bullets in clashes outside al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on Monday, as Israel marked the anniversary of its capture of parts of the city in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said more than 275 Palestinians were…
11 May 2021 8AM 1 min

'It's been a dream': SA artist pencils character for new Batman comic book

Visual artist Loyiso Mkize grew up reading Batman comic books, and now he has had the opportunity of working with American company DC Comics which commissioned him to draw a character called Batwing for a Batman comic series.Mkize, 34, from Butterworth, in the Eastern Cape, said he received an e-mail…
11 May 2021 8AM 5 min

LEAKED AUDIO | Mbeki warns of ANC breakaway

Former president Thabo Mbeki yesterday told the ANC national executive committee that the governing party should prepare for a possible split caused by “irreconcilable ideological difference”. Insiders told the Sunday Times that Mbeki made the comment in response to an input by NEC member Tony Yengeni at yesterday’s heated virtual…
10 May 2021 7AM 1 min

All eyes on the lab to see if Indian variant has landed in SA

Co-chair of the ministerial advisory committee (MAC) on Covid-19, Professor Koleka Mlisana, says they will know this week whether the B.1.617 variant, which has been responsible for thousands of deaths in India, is present in the country. Mlisana said SA's leading scientists remain concerned about a possible third wave and…
8 May 2021 7AM 10 min

What now for Ace?

ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule received a letter this week formally informing him that he has been suspended from the party. However, the suspension need not be permanent and the letter outlines the potential for an appeal process.  We caught up with Sunday Times political reporter Kgothatso Madisa, who has been…
6 May 2021 7AM 5 min

Bill and Melinda Gates to divorce

Billionaire benefactors Bill and Melinda Gates have decided to seek a divorce following 27 years of marriage, the couple said on Monday in a joint announcement that rocked the philanthropic world. Their joint statement said; "after a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we…
4 May 2021 3AM 1 min

It takes courage to blow the whistle

How do you write a book when you are unemployed for two years, have nine criminal charges against you, and your only sin is integrity and telling the truth? Mosilo Mothepu, who has just published her book, Uncaptured , says she went through that and more and lived to tell…
24 Apr 2021 1AM 1 hr 01 min
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