Update following Moepathutse complaint to Press Ombud

amaBhungane

7 November, 2025

The amaBhungane series about the Independent Development Trust and former Minister Sihle Zikalala has been updated following a complaint by Moepathutse Property Investments.

DEADLY WATER (Part 3): The dominoes fall

Aisha Abdool Karim and Susan Comrie

4 November, 2025

Recap: In 2019, CMS Water Engineering won a R291-million contract to refurbish the Rooiwal wastewater treatment plant in Tshwane alongside infamous tenderpreneur Edwin Sodi.

DEADLY WATER (Part 2 continued): Another Rooiwal debacle in Rustenburg

Aisha Abdool Karim and Susan Comrie

31 October, 2025

Recap: In 2019, CMS Water Engineering won a R291-million contract to refurbish the Rooiwal wastewater treatment plant in Tshwane alongside so-called tenderpreneur Edwin Sodi.

Revealed: Maziya’s share in tainted IDT oxygen tender ‘left as it was’ – despite health minister’s promise

Azarrah Karrim

29 October, 2025

A R152-million contract with the Maziya–On Site Gas Systems joint venture (JV) to supply hospital oxygen plants has quietly remained with the Independent Development Trust (IDT) – despite public assurances from health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi that the entire tender.

DEADLY WATER Part 2: A trail of destruction across North West

Aisha Abdool Karim and Susan Comrie

28 October, 2025

Recap: In 2019, CMS Water Engineering won a R291-million contract to refurbish the Rooiwal wastewater treatment plant in Tshwane alongside infamous tenderpreneur Edwin Sodi.

DEADLY WATER: The life and death of a tenderpreneur (Part 1)

Aisha Abdool Karim and Susan Comrie

21 October, 2025

In the early hours of 6 March 2023, Rudolf Schoeman Jnr was found dead in his Bryanston home.

Bus driver arrest deepens Intercape and taxi violence row

Buyeleni Sibanyoni

3 September, 2025

On 19 June 2025, Eastern Cape traffic officers arrested an Intercape bus driver in Ngcobo, Eastern Cape, after he refused to hand over his vehicle, still full of passengers, to be driven to an impound lot.

AmaBhungane Condemns the Killing of Palestinian Journalists and Attack on Media Freedom

AmaBhungane reporters

29 August, 2025

As journalists and a media organisation we have watched with increasing dismay and anger as journalists have been targeted and killed by the Israeli military in Gaza.

AmaBhungane bids to challenge the Public Procurement Act

Caroline James

8 August, 2025

It’s unlikely that you’ll open any newspaper or scroll through a news website these days without seeing an article about corruption in a government tender process.

Opinion: The JSE displays an unhealthy obsession with secrecy

Caroline James

7 August, 2025

Five years ago, a small company, Inhlanhla Ventures, was placed in a difficult financial position.

Milestone conviction in multi-billion “cum-ex” tax fraud tightens noose around Investec

Buyeleni Sibanyoni

31 July, 2025

The conviction of German lawyer and financial engineer Dr.

South Africa’s bad bet

Dewald van Rensburg

4 July, 2025

Rocketing online gambling has become a major source of extraction from the South African economy, riding on regulatory failure, cynical business practices and paid-for influence to profit off a mammoth new social ill.