Verdict: Karpowership’s owner slammed for discrimination against BEE partners

Susan Comrie

2 December, 2023

Former chief justice Sandile Ngcobo has eviscerated Karpowership’s Turkish owner over its “biased” and “oppressive” shareholders’ agreement with its black empowerment partners.

A scramble for the broke and broken Habib bank

Dewald van Rensburg

29 November, 2023

Mysterious anonymous investors from Limpopo, Saudi Arabia and Dubai, as well as one of Botswana’s richest politicians, are allegedly all separately poised to spend hundreds of millions of rands to save and take control of the controversial Habib Overseas Bank.

PetroSA pushes for R3.7bn deal with Russia

Susan Comrie

22 November, 2023

The state-owned Petroleum Oil and Gas Corporation of South Africa (PetroSA) wants to partner with Russia’s Gazprombank to restart the gas-to-liquids refinery in Mossel Bay.

R462m ‘megafarm’ land reform project in disarray after North West department fails to release funding

Magnificent Mndebele

10 November, 2023

Photographs by Magnificent Mndebele In the lush plantation fields of Skeerpoort, situated about half an hour’s drive from Brits in the North West province, lies the farming community of Khutso-Naketsi.

Corruption cloud over Popcru leader on the eve of congress

Sam Sole

3 November, 2023

The Hawks are investigating a case of corruption and money laundering implicating current Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) treasurer Thulani Nsele and former prisons boss and notorious Popcru enabler Khulekani Sithole.

A daily cry for help: the dark picture that emerges from amaBhungane’s tip-offs

Buyeleni Sibanyoni

23 October, 2023

“I am looking for someone who is willing to help me.

#MotiFiles: Moti and the money men PART 2

AmaBhungane Team

17 October, 2023

This article was produced with the assistance of The Sentry.

#MotiFiles: Moti and the money men

AmaBhungane Team

16 October, 2023

Zunaid Moti’s business empire worked with alleged underground financial operators channelling vast sums through his mining and property companies using complex smoke-and-mirrors transactions.

#MotiFiles: Inside VBS’s R1.3-billion gold-fuelled “hawala”

AmaBhungane Team

UPDATE: APOLOGY TO MR MOTI Mr Zunaid Moti lodged a complaint against amaBhungane with the South African Press Ombud.

Taxi bosses, the construction mafia and political murder: the violence entrepreneurs challenging business and the State

Greg Ardé

9 October, 2023

On 11 September 2022, Mnqobi Molefe, 35, was shot dead while in hiding on the KZN south coast, where he was councillor for the outlying eThekwini ward 99, which stretches inland from the town of Umkhomaas.

Karpowership: failed interdict unearths ‘State Capture on steroids’ agreement

Susan Comrie

6 October, 2023

In November 2022, with its R218-billion deal hanging by a thread, Turkish powership company Karadeniz decided to ditch its black empowerment partners Powergroup SA – an incredibly risky move that put the entire deal in jeopardy.

The many “grey areas” of Cricket South Africa’s Pink Day

Njabulo Ngidi

28 September, 2023

Cricket South Africa (CSA) appears to be taking advantage of the goodwill around Pink Day with a misleading public relations campaign that oversells their contribution to the fight against breast cancer.