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.

The Moti Files: How businessman Zunaid Moti cosied up to the Mnangagwa regime

AmaBhungane Team

28 April, 2023

A trove of leaked internal documents has laid bare the close ties between controversial South African businessman Zunaid Moti and Zimbabwe’s highest-ranking politicians, bringing to light evidence of dubious multimillion dollar transactions, a sustained effort to accumulate political influence, and.

Gauteng Health bosses accused of bid-rigging in tender for kickbacks scheme

Tebogo Tshwane

24 April, 2023

Editorial Note: Subsequent to the publication of this article, attorneys for Landus Armstrong, Bhekani Security and Bas Medexpress informed amaBhungane that the criminal case against their clients had been withdrawn.

#EarthCrimes:Free State’s foul failure 

Aisha Abdool Karim and Laura Lopez Gonzalez

11 April, 2023

A year ago the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) reinstated its assessment of the country’s 995 wastewater treatment plants.