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Bhekani Security and Bas Medexpress informed amaBhungane that the criminal case against their clients had been withdrawn.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.

Too good to be true – Malawi’s $6.8 billion jackpot?

Suzgo Chitete

1 April, 2023

Malawi was taken by storm in November last year when the government signed a deal purportedly worth US$6.

When online schooling goes wrong 

Tabelo Timse

27 March, 2023

On 17 January, a day before the matric results were released, Ntokozo Dlamini, 18 and a student at Seat Academy online school, was pacing up and down her house – the late results announcement this year added to her stress.

No water, no way out: Ditsobotla’s downfall and the collapse of government

Aisha Abdool Karim

21 March, 2023

At the heart of the North West province, roughly an hour’s drive from Mahikeng, lies one of the country’s worst-run municipalities.

State of procurement disaster: Wide powers and vague rules for emergency procurement under the State of Disaster threaten a new license to loot

Caroline James

10 March, 2023

When President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the State of Disaster on the energy crisis in his SoNA speech, he lauded the benefits of the declaration.

Property mogul flips R86.25-million land parcel to Gauteng housing department for R244.95-million

Magnificent Mndebele

1 March, 2023

The Gauteng department of human settlements (GDHS) bought three land parcels on 13 March 2019, handing an instant paper profit of R158.

Construction mafias, corruption and your water — how government is looking to the courts to get the taps running

Laura Lopez Gonzalez

28 February, 2023

In March last year, minister of water and sanitation Senzo Mchunu admitted to Parliament that many municipalities were failing to deliver on their most basic function: access to water.

NPA reveals why it declined to prosecute in Karpowership case, but decision raises new questions

Susan Comrie

27 February, 2023

The state will not prosecute Karpowership’s environmental consultants because the case hinges on a single witness, according to advocate Sibongile Mzinyathi, the director of public prosecutions in Pretoria.

The Moti Files: Red flags in police hunt for former Moti Group employee

AmaBhungane Team

17 February, 2023

As controversial businessman Zunaid Moti’s sprawling multi-billion rand conglomerate scrambles to contain a leak of sensitive company information, questions have been raised about the role of the South African Police Service (SAPS) and prominent forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan.

When crises collide: Water is South Africa’s next ‘perfect storm’

Laura Lopez Gonzalez

2 February, 2023

South Africa is, by some accounts, already “out” of water.