Earlier this month the Mail&Guardian reported that a handful of ANC members who were seen as critical of jacob Zuma had received death threats.

Sisulu’s refreshing brand of channelled aggression and forthright honesty was on show as she opened a new ANC branch in King William’s Town this weekend.

Hectic stuff.

It started with Vytjie Mentor coming forward, but the alleged state capture and Guptagate saga has progressed to much, much more than that.

The State of the Nation address is being debated in South Africa’s parliament. Africa Check is fact-checking the claims being made by ministers, opposition members and backbenchers.

The South African government continues struggle with “rampant” corruption as Minister Lindiwe Sisulu announces new Anti-Corruption Bureau. But some MPs have already questioned the bureau’s future effectiveness, saying that its budget of R17 million was too little compared to state corruption estimated at billions of rands.