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DEADLY WATER Part 2: A trail of destruction across North West
28 October, 2025
Every good scandal needs an origin story – and CMS Water Engineering is no different.
DEADLY WATER: The life and death of a tenderpreneur (Part 1)
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
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
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
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
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
31 July, 2025
The conviction of German lawyer and financial engineer Dr.
South Africa’s bad bet
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.
Ties that bind: Inside Mashatile’s inner circle behind SA’s new lottery operator
28 June, 2025
A cache of pictures and video shows the cozy ties between Deputy President Paul Mashatile and the inner circle behind the new lottery operator, Sizekhaya Holdings.
Lottery Jackpot: Mashatile’s family tied to new multi-billion-rand operator deal
23 June, 2025
Sizekhaya Holdings, which landed the lucrative licence to operate South Africa’s national lottery for eight years, has links to Deputy President Paul Mashatile.
Who got to go to Paris with Paul? Water tanker tenderpreneur joined Deputy President Mashatile’s France-SA business entourage
19 June, 2025
In May, a South African delegation led by Deputy President Paul Mashatile travelled to Paris for the South Africa-France Investment Conference.
Dirty Fuels Part 2: PetroSA’s R11-billion ‘contaminated’ petrol deal
8 June, 2025
In December 2023, TotalEnergies started to notice that something was off with a new kind of unleaded petrol that it was selling in the Garden Route.
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