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PetroSA’s deal with Russia implodes
22 January, 2025
It was Cabinet – not PetroSA – who announced, in December 2023, that Russia’s Gazprombank had been selected to restart Mossel Bay’s gas-to-liquids refinery.
NPA in crisis: Andrea Johnson’s unguided missile
20 January, 2025
Meet Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndhlovu, the well-connected military contractor and prosecution witness who was primed to nail a big fish: Parliamentary Speaker and former defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula.
Damning affidavit, if true, exposes the banality of former Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s alleged corruption.
Former defence minister and Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is back in court today for an application by her lawyers to try to force the disclosure of parts of the prosecution docket the State says are confidential.
Inside job: the rise and fall of the woman who brought down Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula
19 January, 2025
Be sure to also read part two of this story, as well as our in-depth analysis.
Joburg awards R263-million water tanker tender to two 20-somethings
22 December, 2024
With the city in the grip of a crippling water crisis, Johannesburg Water has awarded a questionable R263-million contract to supply water tankers to two obscure companies, both owned and run by directors from the Eastern Cape in their 20s.
Outdated reliance on sub judice hinders the constitutional imperative of transparency
As an investigative journalism unit, a core part of our task involves sending questions to various entities.
#TheLaundry: Sasfin Bank’s snake pit
19 December, 2024
This year, Sasfin Bank seemingly declared defeat after a series of scandalous revelations about the deep rot in its foreign exchange business.
#TheLaundry: From government contracts to a laundry web
12 December, 2024
In the course of the Covid-19 pandemic the South African government went large on emergency contracts for everything from masks and hand sanitiser to makeshift housing and hospital beds.
Health DG, IDT CEO paved way for dodgy R836m oxygen plant contracts
10 December, 2024
Signed appointment letters and related documents reveal that the National Department of Health’s (NDoH) top official and his counterpart at the Independent Development Trust (IDT) played key roles in an allegedly unlawful project to install oxygen plants at state hospitals.
“Tell no lies, claim no easy victories” – amaBhungane’s first documentary
8 December, 2024
It has been five years since Advocate Shamila Batohi was appointed National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP).
Steinhoff’s desperate efforts to conceal its financial skeletons have failed
5 December, 2024
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) threw out Steinhoff’s appeal against a high court decision ordering the company to release the full report of a forensic investigation into the massive fraud that pitched Steinhoff into free-fall and eventual liquidation,.
The deal that got PetroSA’s CEO suspended
3 December, 2024
In April this year Xolile Sizani was brought in to save PetroSA, but after just six months as chief executive he was suspended by the board.
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