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Rudzani Maphwanya and Solly Shoke.
When General Solly Shoke hands the symbolic instrument of command to his successor on 28 May, he leaves the office of SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Chief as its longest serving occupant.
He took office on 2 May 2011 after a stint as SA Army Chief that started in 2004 and when he retires will have been chief of the national defence force for just on 10 years.
Shoke’s successor is currently the top man at the Joint Operations Division where Lieutenant General Rudzani Maphwanya remains in charge until receiving his fourth star and becoming the only general in the SANDF.
Ex-Transnet CEO Brian Molefe claims he was simply ‘a foot soldier’ and fires salvo of criticism at commission Steve Kretzmann
Appearing before the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture on Thursday evening, following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s second day of testimony before Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, Molefe peppered his replies to evidence leader advocate Anton Myburgh SC with veiled aspersions against the commission, and suggestions it was picking one side of a fight.
Molefe began by pouncing on a correction Myburgh read into the record. Before leading evidence, Myburgh stated that when Molefe appeared before the commission on a previous occasion, he had referred to an affidavit which made allegations that Molefe made questionable decisions in order to benefit a particular company that was partly owned by Gupta dealmaker and associate Salim Essa. Lawyers acting on behalf of the company had alerted the team that this was an error, as Essa had n
There was nothing suspicious about paying a security company owned by General Siphiwe Nyanda R20-million to settle a dispute over work performed, and the R100-million Transnet paid to sponsor The New Age business breakfasts was value for money, former Transnet CEO Brian Molefe told the State Ca.
President, ambassador and intelligence minister should resign 12 April 2021 - 21:04 Picture: SUPPLIED
SA s ambassador to Maputo, Siphiwe Nyanda, said on state television that his government “definitely had no idea” the Islamist insurgency attack on the port town of Palma in Mozambique was coming. He just happened to be nearby at the time (yeah, right), and not his embassy 2,000km away. His tone was highly defensive.
When a non-career diplomat puts up his own lack of knowledge as an excuse for inaction one should pay attention. He, President Cyril Ramaphosa and intelligence minister Ayanda Dhlolo gave no advisory warning to South Africans there, let alone an evacuation order. Nor to any other Africans for that matter, who endured days of terror trying to keep their heads while those around them were losing theirs. There were mass executions and torture, disappearances and one of our nationals is confirmed murdered.