Update@Noon

This Monday, SAfm anchor Sakina Kamwendo once again spoke to Zimele Mbanjwa, FNB Wealth and Investments analyst, for the latest market update.

Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson has directed the Construction Industry Development Board to investigate allegations that Morial Infrastructure Group obtained multiple construction gradings on the same day. The allegations suggest the company may not have met the requirements for those gradings, which were allegedly used to secure government contracts. The investigation follows scrutiny of the company's alleged links to businessman Lawrence Chamurwa Mudzingayima, who was filmed threatening women at a Sandton restaurant. For more on this matter Sakina Kamwendo spoke to CIDB CEO Bongani Dladla

Taxi boss and businessman Joe "Ferrari" Sibanyoni is testifying before the Madlanga Commission. Sibanyoni says Gubis 85 provided VIP protection services to his taxi association and related entities from March 2024, at a monthly fee of 145-thousand rand, VAT inclusive. He says the arrangement was commercially reasonable and necessary due to credible threats to his safety. He also revealed that he received a bakkie as a voluntary birthday gift from Gubis 85, describing it as pure goodwill with no strings attached.

Taxi boss and businessman Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni continues testifying before the Madlanga Commission. Sibanyoni addressing his position on key messages and interactions involving Sergeant Nkosi. He says he knew Nkosi as a social acquaintance and acknowledges that Nkosi visited his home on about 12 occasions in a social capacity.

National Assembly Speaker, Thoko Didiza, told the TRC Cases Inquiry she's unable to assist the Commission without a record, agenda, or minutes of two alleged meetings she called while she was the Acting Minister of Justice in 2006. Didiza says she has no independent recollection of these meetings, as they allegedly happened twenty years ago. She appeared briefly before the TRC Cases Commission, which is tasked with probing whether there was any political interference and deliberate efforts not to investigate further and prosecute TRC matters.