Dirty Fuels Part 2: PetroSA’s R11-billion ‘contaminated’ petrol deal

Susan Comrie

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.

IDT MISTRUST | Part 2: Minister Zikalala’s ‘whitewash’ that secured IDT CEO Malaka her job

Azarrah Karrim

31 May, 2025

Former public works minister Sihle Zikalala lowballed the findings of an investigation he had commissioned, paving the way for Tebogo Malaka’s appointment as chief executive of the Independent Development Trust (IDT) despite her involvement in a R45-million lease scandal.

IDT MISTRUST | Part 1: How minister Zikalala and his ‘comrade chair’ Mshengu nixed probes into CEO Malaka

Azarrah Karrim

30 May, 2025

Documents obtained by amaBhungane suggest that former public works and infrastructure minister Sihle Zikalala and his close comrade, then-Independent Development Trust (IDT) chair advocate Kwazi Mshengu, mounted parallel efforts to shield the parastatal’s chief executive from investigations into a R45-million.

Dirty fuels: Inside PetroSA’s shambolic diesel trading empire

Susan Comrie

27 May, 2025

In May last year, two oil tankers set sail for South Africa, each carrying $35-million (R650-million) worth of diesel.

Advocacy: Deals done in secret, the PetroSA way, are bad business

Caroline James

Our latest investigative piece detailed the scarcely believable story of how PetroSA effectively gave a little-known company a R933-million cargo of diesel with no contract and no guarantee it would be paid.

Suspected crime boss Stanfield’s wife spends R5-million on Sea Point flat while in prison

Graeme Hosken

18 May, 2025

Nicole Johnson, wife of suspected organised crime boss Ralph Stanfield and herself accused of racketeering and helping run a violent criminal enterprise, bought an unbonded R5-million flat on the Atlantic Seaboard from a renowned Cape Town property developer.

Iqbal called us racist, but this is why we’re rushing to his defence

Caroline James

3 May, 2025

There are few people who hate us more than Iqbal Survé, the chairperson of Independent Media.

Analysis: has the South African Reserve Bank gone rogue?

Sam Sole

2 May, 2025

An extraordinary multi-billion-rand battle is raging between the South African Reserve Bank and the surviving rump of the Steinhoff group, now named Ibex.

IDT Mistrust: Beleaguered IDT paid R33m to company belonging to CEO Tebogo Malaka’s family member

Azarrah Karrim

15 April, 2025

The beleaguered Independent Development Trust (IDT) paid a company directed by an apparent family member of CEO Tebogo Malaka over R33 million – mainly for school building projects – between 2011 and 2017.

Scam Empire Part 3: Money in, money out

Dewald van Rensburg

13 April, 2025

This investigation is based on a large leak of data originally provided to Sveriges Television, the Swedish national broadcaster, to which amaBhungane has gained access as part of a global consortium of media organisations coordinated by the OCCRP.

IDT mistrust: bid ‘manipulation’ in R436m road tenders brings Bulkeng back into spotlight

Azarrah Karrim

2 April, 2025

Signs of manipulation in award of R436m worth of road tenders, with largest going to Bulkeng, the company spotlighted in IDT health contract probe.

AmaB at 15: looking back, looking ahead

Sam Sole

19 March, 2025

Dear reader, I write to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the first article published under the amaBhungane banner.