Delinquent soccer club boss seeking to revive $1.2bn gas deal with PetroSA

Susan Comrie

26 March, 2026

In December 2023, Shumani Lawrence Mulaudzi signed a $1.

EXCLUSIVE: Alleged 28s gang boss ‘captured’ mega rail project – with Prasa’s ‘help’

AmaBhungane reporters

8 March, 2026

Ralph Stanfield, the alleged head of South Africa’s notorious 28s organised crime gang, and his criminally co-accused wife, Nicole Johnson, appear to have used Prasa’s security chief Alexio Papadopulo to capture chunks of the government’s multi-billion-rand Cape Town central line.

Analysis : Mozambican group RGS ups the stakes in court battle to counter Tongaat Hulett liquidation and rival Vision consortium

Sam Sole | AmaBhungane Managing Partner

26 February, 2026

The stakes are enormous: thousands of direct jobs; tens of thousands of rural livelihoods; north-ern KwaZulu-Natal’s agricultural core, indeed, potentially the very stability of the province.

Analysis: The violation of Tongaat Hulett

Sam Sole | AmaBhungane Managing Partner

22 February, 2026

On Friday, 27 February, the Business Rescue Practitioners and their lawyers will approach the High Court in Durban to request the provisional liquidation of Tongaat Hulett Limited (THL), the company that is a crucial backbone of the rural economy in.

Invalid R263 million tanker tender rolls on as Johannesburg’s taps run dry

Buyeleni Sibanyoni

19 February, 2026

Johannesburg residents no longer look to their taps to provide water.

Update: The sobering data from inside Eskom

Susan Comrie

11 February, 2026

In April 2024, the lights stayed on – after six years of loadshedding, this was headline news.

PetroSA’s R3.5-billion ‘raid’ on student funding

Susan Comrie and Buyeleni Sibanyoni

28 January, 2026

As universities open their doors, 1 in 3 South African youth will be left behind at home.

Analysis: JSE gets a whipping at the Information Regulator

Caroline James

16 January, 2026

This year started with a slap-down for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) as the Information Regulator laid down the law on disclosure.

In 2026 we need less Nazis, more Mkhwanazis

Sam Sole

19 December, 2025

Dear amaB supporters, The decline and fall of empires is not for sissies – but fortunately, neither is South Africa.

Health director general, IDT clash over critical R1.6-billion hospital programme as contractor seeks minister’s intervention

Azarrah Karrim

18 December, 2025

The National Department of Health (NDOH) has launched a sweeping “due diligence investigation” into a series of hospital refurbishment projects that have already burned through millions in what may amount to irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure.

SA’s gambling crisis: facilitators, criminals and money launderers

Dewald van Rensburg

12 December, 2025

The online gambling industry, which is fast reaching catastrophic proportions in South Africa, does not exist in a vacuum.

A lotto trouble: marketing firm’s claims against new lottery operator land on Minister’s desk

Azarrah Karrim

3 December, 2025

UPDATE: On 2 April amaBhungane was forwarded a formal retraction from Social Pro Media (Pty) Ltd in which the company states that it “retracts and withdraws statements and allegations previously made concerning Sizekhaya Holdings (RF) (Pty) Ltd.