Roy Cokayne

5 days ago | citizen.co.za | Roy Cokayne

The Road Accident Fund (RAF) paid 84% of the total R103.1 million it spent on corporate legal services in its 2024 financial year to Malatji & Co Attorneys Inc and Maponya Ledwaba Attorneys – just two of the 43 legal firms on its panel. Malatji & Co was paid R55.87 million by the RAF in 2024 and Maponya Ledwaba R30.75 million. The RAF revealed this in a presentation to Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) last week.

5 days ago | flipboard.com | Roy Cokayne

6 hours agoJINJA, Uganda (AP) — Simon Tigawalana dreamed for years of doing something about the dirt floors in his small house, blaming them for making his family sick. But in a rural area in one of the world’s poorest countries, making them over with concrete was simply out of reach. Then a company called …

1 week ago | citizen.co.za | Roy Cokayne

The Road Accident Fund (RAF) has been accused of deliberately withholding information from Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) about the top 10 law firms to receive briefs and payments from the fund. Scopa chair Songeza Zibi said on Wednesday he has asked for this information twice, the first time on 6 November 2024. He now believes “this information is being deliberately withheld from the committee for improper reasons”.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Roy Cokayne

15 hours agoYou have probably heard the phrase “out of Africa” before, referring to humanity’s predecessors leaving the continent and spreading across the globe.While this is the de facto theory about our species’ origins, there’s still a question about why they left and experts have a new theory.

1 week ago | citizen.co.za | Roy Cokayne

An independent investigation into potential export control violations by JSE-listed Barloworld related to sales of certain goods to its Russian subsidiary Vostochnaya Technica (VT) has been further extended to September 2025.