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Advocacy: The search is on to expose the nation’s top 10 secrets
25 March, 2011
The Right2Know campaign is compiling a list of South Africa's top 10 secrets.
Victory for M&G in Gumede complaint
23 March, 2011
The BCCSA has upheld the M&G's complaint against the SABC regarding its broadcast of Robert Gumede's claims of corruption against Sam Sole.
End of line for fugitive?
18 March, 2011
Affidavit detailing fraud may finally bring an end to Radovan Krejcir's run-around with the law.
Scorpions disbanding unconstitutional
Hawks 'insufficiently insulated from political interference', says Concourt.
Plum Gupta job for Zuma fiancée
President's bride-to-be is welcomed into the fold, with her luxury house also coming under scrutiny.
Fancy digs, but is New Age moving enough copies?
The New Age newspaper is full of surprises, as I discovered during a visit to the paper this week.
Wits embroiled in land dispute
University's suburban development plans for Frankenwald betray its deed terms, activists say.
Stressed lawyers ‘massage’ figures
Gauteng education department paid bill for legal services that included stress management fees.
Advocacy: Nothing new about ‘national security’ being used as a muzzle
The "development agenda" and "national security" have been invoked to curb press freedom in all post-colonial African countries.
Gijima: more pain to come?
11 March, 2011
Although the IT company will conclude the billion-rand department of home affairs project, its role will be relatively small.
Luxury government homes probed
The Special Investigating Unit's probe into abuses at the department of public works ranges far more widely than the police leasing scandal.
Deal of the decade for Shabangu
Property tycoon Roux Shabangu has hit the jackpot with his controversial deal to lease a Pretoria building to the police.
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