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One of the campus six signed a confession and agreed to pay NTT R208 million. The other four said he was under pressure and cut a deal to save himself. Paul Hoffman SC of Accountability Now told Alec Hogg what Jason Goodall's statement means in law, and why the Supreme Court of Appeal, which reserved judgment in May, may not be able to consider it at all. He set out the criminal exposure he believes the remaining directors face, from fraud and conflict of interest to PRECCA and BEE fronting, and what he would advise the man who has gone quiet. He also explained how a plea deal could turn Goodall into a state witness, why no prosecutor has yet shown an interest, and why he thinks white-collar criminals in South Africa still calculate that they will get away with it.

In this interview, Chris Steyn talks to political commentator Solly Moeng about concerns relating to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s future handling of the recommendations of the Madlanga Commission. “We have to be supremely naive to think that the president doesn't go back to the party that deployed him to the top leadership of the ANC and just look at who sits around the table in the party to say, guys, here's a report. What do we do about it? So the discussion that we should be having in South Africa is what happens when the people who must implement the recommendations of the commission's report are themselves a problem.” As for certain people still not being called or still avoiding appearances before the commission, Moeng says “It's very easy, in the current system, for the public to be thrown peanuts and we're like, yeah, yeah, things are happening. But the key honchos get away with a lot of stuff because of political management of the evidence that comes from the commissions. It cannot just give us peripheral evidence from the branches of a tree while the core evidence that sits in the trunk of the tree is not called because there might be some political sensitivities around such evidence.” Moeng also gives his take on the “three monsters of his own creation” being faced by suspended Deputy National Commissioner General Shadrack Sibiya.

Afrimat has been on the JSE for 20 years and has never had a half like this one. A strong rand and Iran-driven shipping costs battered its iron ore exports, the ferrochrome smelters that bought its anthracite went quiet, and the group swung to a headline loss. Yet a day after the trading update, Andries van Heerden was not in retreat. He told Alec Hogg how the old Lafarge quarries, mocked when Afrimat bought them, had kept the group afloat, why a new iron ore mine could change the maths before the year is out, and why he would say no more about the cement talks for fear of straying into insider information. He also faced the question every shareholder was asking: is this the bottom? His answer was more honest than comforting.

In this interview Paul Smith, the Head of Local Governance at Kagiso Trust, talks to Chris Steyn about the launch of the #StartWhereYouAre Playbook, the anchor tool of its nationwide #StartWhereYouAre active citizenship and voter education campaign leading up to the 2026 Local Government Elections. He describes how the playbook can be a tool for shifting the relationship between citizens and their government from passive acceptance to active engagement. The practical guide shows South Africans exactly how to move from wanting to participate to exactly what they can do. The playbook uses a comic-strip format with relatable characters and everyday scenarios to demonstrate the citizen action cycle: Notice → Understand → Report → Organise → Follow up.”We have to think carefully about how we sever the incestuous relationship between administration and politics. We have to break the link between those who have got to deliver and those who have to do oversight… Once we have a government in place, it's no longer worth moaning. It's about how we work with that government and start creating the future we desire as a collective.”

One of the Campus Six broke ranks this week, and David Shapiro said it was only ever a matter of time. On BN Daybreak, he unpacked Jason Goodall's admission in the R1.4bn Didata property saga and asked who would carry the can now; the four executives Goodall named deny wrongdoing. Safe Citizen's Jonathan Deal argued that South Africa takes its standards from the very top. Police committee chair Ian Cameron said SAPS had spent its budget while reaching barely half its targets, and should not be handed more money. Kagiso Trust's Paul Smith set out how voters could hold councils to account after 4 November, and Piet Viljoen explained why cheap local shares could pay off even if nothing changed.