South African President Jacob Zuma has rejected the rumors for arresting his former finance minister Pravin Gordhan on Sunday. He along with eight other former officials has been investigating their illicit roles in forming a special unit inside SARS. However, his arrest may put the country into a deep financial crisis, warn the economists.
After an article released by Sunday Times titled "How Guptas shopped for new minister," ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte responds and denies accusations. The article alleges the Guptas and Duarte to have offered Deputy Minister Mcebisi Jonas the position of then-finance minister Nhlanhla Nene. These were made even more controversial as Sunday Times reported that the Guptas gave conditions along with the offer, such as the support for the nuclear procurement programme.
South African riot police fired stun grenades on Wednesday at hundreds of protesting students who stormed the parliament precinct in Cape Town to try to disrupt the reading of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene's interim budget.
South Africa's parliament on Tuesday rejected investigating President Jacob Zuma for possible impeachment for allowing Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to evade an arrest warrant and leave the country in June.
