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ACTING Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni expressed the government’s unhappiness with a report that Israeli spyware firm NSO Group may have had President Cyril Ramaphosa’s number on its database.

UK newspaper The Guardian reported on Wednesday that Ramaphosa was among 14 world leaders identified in records on a leaked list which includes numbers selected by governments that are clients of NSO Group using surveillance through its spyware Pegasus.

According to the report, Ramaphosa appears to have been selected by Rwanda in 2019. | Political Bureau

FORMER Ukhozi FM DJ Ngizwe Mchunu has been remanded until his bail hearing in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg next Wednesday.

Mchunu is accused of being among the instigators of the violence and looting that engulfed Kwazulu-natal and Gauteng last week.

Mthunzi Mhaga, the special director of public prosecutions in the National Director of Public Prosecutions office, would not give details of the allegations that Mchunu travelled in a private jet between the two provinces, because it forms part of the investigation. | Political Bureau