Delinquent departments fail ‘disposable’ school

Magnificent Mndebele

26 July, 2023

Major questions remain around how the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) and Gauteng Department of Infrastructure Development (GDID) managed to dispose of a major asset in 2000, including a functioning school, and why they have failed to rectify the situation.

Countering the Moti Group’s misrepresentations – a summary for those following and covering the story.

amaBhungane

10 July, 2023

Judge Sutherland handed down judgment in the Johannesburg High Court on Monday, 3 July 2023, in our case with the Moti Group.

NPA and Magistrates Commission asked to probe KZN magistrate’s murky immersion in spying and politics.

Sam Sole and Greg Ardé

7 July, 2023

Controversial magistrate Ashin Singh’s charmed life of dabbling in spying, provocation and politics while simultaneously occupying high magisterial office may be coming to an end.

Victory! A massive vindication for amaBhungane and journalism

Sam Sole

4 July, 2023

Judge Roland Sutherland issued a scathing rebuke for the Moti Group and its lawyers in a judgment yesterday which overturned the earlier gag order obtained against amaBhungane in a secret ex parte hearing.

HIGH COURT BATTLE: Moti Group vs amaBhungane

AmaBhungane Team

27 June, 2023

Today, amaBhungane appear in the High Court to set aside the Moti Group’s unprecedented gag order against the #MotiFiles.

Statement on Professor Tawana Kupe

AmaBhungane Team

26 June, 2023

On Saturday 24 June amaBhungane accepted the resignation of its chairperson Professor Tawana Kupe.

Comment: Zunaid Moti’s war on amaBhungane and on journalism

AmaBhungane Team

“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you are only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

2010 World Cup $10-million ‘bribe’: SA left out even as $201-million returned to FIFA 

Njabulo Ngidi

5 June, 2023

The sour legacy of the $10-million the South African Football Association (SAFA) allegedly paid to seal the award of the 2010 FIFA World Cup continues to haunt the association, its president Danny Jordaan and South African football at large, an.

#MotiFiles: Moti Group granted secret court order muzzling investigative journalists

AmaBhungane Team

2 June, 2023

Update: 3 June 2023 AmaBhungane welcomes the court order issued at midday today undoing the worst aspects of the order obtained against us by the Moti Group in a secret court hearing on Thursday.

Analysis: Moti’s war for credibility

AmaBhungane Team

18 May, 2023

When amaBhungane first approached businessman Zunaid Moti with detailed questions on 11 April, his lawyers stalled.

Zunaid Moti’s ‘inside man’ at Investec

AmaBhungane Team

17 May, 2023

There is an old cliché about banking: If you owe your bank a million it’s your problem.

Xolobeni murder: Hawks General fingered for shutting down investigation

Sam Sole

10 May, 2023

Major-General Gopaul ‘Gopz’ Govender, the recently appointed head of the Directorate for Priority Crimes Investigation (DPCI) in Limpopo, has been accused of attempting to close down the investigation of the murder of “Bazooka” Radebe, the late chair of the Amadiba.