·  In January, President Mbeki announces the exclusion of Judge Willem Heath from the team of investigators.

·  January 29: The ANC announces the removal of Andrew Feinstein, the party's head of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.

·  March 25: The Sunday Times publishes details of Yengeni's ML320 and reveals that he entered into a finance agreement with DaimlerChrysler seven months after the vehicle was registered in his name.

·  March 26: Yengeni denies he received the car as a gift from the arms firm and announces that he will seek legal advice.

·  March 26: DA Chief Whip Douglas Gibson calls on Parliament's ethics committee to investigate the claims around Yengeni's car.

·  April 1: The Sunday Times publishes details about a Mercedes-Benz car belonging to Yengeni's wife, Lumka.

·  April 5: Yengeni responds to questions from the ethics committee by challenging the procedure it used.

·  April 8: The Sunday Times reveals how a manager of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company claimed his boss had told him to order Lumka Yengeni's car. EADS admits it assisted 30 VIPs to get Mercedes-Benz vehicles. It says this included politicians and diplomats.

·  April 12: Yengeni misses the deadline to respond to questions put by Parliament's ethics committee, but gets an extension of time.

·  April 19: Yengeni's response is handed in, but embargoed until members of the ethics committee meet to discuss it.  

With acknowledgment to the Sunday Times.