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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.
Scam Empire part 2: behind the veil
Dewald van Rensburg
18 March, 2025
Two weeks ago we revealed the existence of an astonishing international syndicate allegedly scamming tens of thousands of people worldwide.
Scam Empire Part One: Inside the dark heart of a multinational investment scam
Dewald van Rensburg and OCCRP
5 March, 2025
A little-known Bulgarian entrepreneur named Boris Kodzhov has, since 2023, quietly made mammoth strides in the South African fintech sector.
#TheLaundry: the bullshit artist, the fuel traders and the Hong Kong front army
Dewald van Rensburg
16 February, 2025
On 16 October 2020 André Malherbe, an investigator at the South African Reserve Bank’s Financial Surveillance Department, got a phone call from one of the country’s best known alleged money launderers.
Trouble for Mazars over failed PetroSA deals
Susan Comrie
9 February, 2025
Mazars’ due diligence helped to green light three scandal-plagued deals between PetroSA, Russia’s Gazprombank Africa and notorious wheeler dealer Lawrence Mulaudzi.
Inside the PwC report: What really brought Steinhoff to its knees
Rob Rose for Currency, Financial Mail and amaBhungane
6 February, 2025
It is late November 2017 and Steinhoff, already Europe’s second-largest furniture retailer after Ikea, is scrambling to convince its auditor Deloitte to sign off its accounts for the year to September, due to be published a week later, on December.
IDT contractor embroiled in Health DG bribe allegations won highly suspect tender, new evidence shows
Azarrah Karrim
5 February, 2025
A trove of documents obtained by amaBhungane show how the Independent Development Trust (IDT) appointed a contractor embroiled in bribery allegations involving director general of the Department of Health Dr Sandile Buthelezi, despite obvious warning signs in the procurement process.
PetroSA’s deal with Russia implodes
Susan Comrie
22 January, 2025
It was Cabinet – not PetroSA – who announced, in December 2023, that Russia’s Gazprombank had been selected to restart Mossel Bay’s gas-to-liquids refinery.
NPA in crisis: Andrea Johnson’s unguided missile
Graeme Hosken and Sam Sole | AmaBhungane Managing Partner
20 January, 2025
Meet Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndhlovu, the well-connected military contractor and prosecution witness who was primed to nail a big fish: Parliamentary Speaker and former defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula.
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