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AmaBhungane is hiring! The role: Production and digital engagement coordinator
1 December, 2025
Role description At its core, this role is about driving, creating and managing amaBhungane’s publishing, promotion and engagement.
Buses face escalating attacks as police struggle to maintain safety in Eastern Cape hotspots
30 November, 2025
The Eastern Cape Division of the High Court has granted long-distance bus operator Intercape urgent interim relief compelling the South African Police Service (SAPS) to escort its buses and maintain visible policing in two towns where the company says its.
Calling all muckrakers, dung beetles and fearless investigative journalists: amaBhungane is hiring!
21 November, 2025
Join South Africa’s leading investigative journalism team Investigative journalist: mid to senior level AmaBhungane has a position available on its small but driven team of investigative journalists.
DEADLY WATER (Part 5): A zombie in the water industry
18 November, 2025
CMS Water Engineering was built up like a house of cards — shaky, precarious and one wrong move away from complete collapse.
A rare glimpse of accountability: the Information Regulator orders SARS to release Zuma’s tax records
14 November, 2025
In February 2019, amaBhungane and Warren Thompson, then a journalist at the Financial Mail, filed requests under the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) for access to former President Jacob Zuma’s tax records.
Behind the meltdown: Miller v Moti, McGowan and the JSE
13 November, 2025
A seemingly suicidal corporate crusade by upstart miner Mike Miller has thrown up evidence suggesting controversial businessman Zunaid discussed cutting dodgy backroom deals with the erstwhile CEO of property group Rebosis.
DEADLY WATER (Part 4): The land of lamb and gold
11 November, 2025
Deadly Water is a series, read Part 1: The life and death of a tenderpreneur, Part 2: A trail of destruction across North West and Another Rooiwal debacle in Rustenburg, and Part 3: The dominoes fall.
Update following Moepathutse complaint to Press Ombud
7 November, 2025
The amaBhungane series about the Independent Development Trust and former Minister Sihle Zikalala has been updated following a complaint by Moepathutse Property Investments.
DEADLY WATER (Part 3): The dominoes fall
4 November, 2025
Joburg Rudolf Schoeman Jnr took his father, Dolf’s, modest engineering business and – through bravado, ambition and alleged bribery – turned it into a major beneficiary of government tenders in the water industry.
DEADLY WATER (Part 2 continued): Another Rooiwal debacle in Rustenburg
31 October, 2025
In 2018, CMS Water Engineering was awarded an R85-million tender to upgrade the Bospoort water treatment plant, on the outskirts of Rustenburg.
Revealed: Maziya’s share in tainted IDT oxygen tender ‘left as it was’ – despite health minister’s promise
29 October, 2025
A R152-million contract with the Maziya–On Site Gas Systems joint venture (JV) to supply hospital oxygen plants has quietly remained with the Independent Development Trust (IDT) – despite public assurances from health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi that the entire tender.
DEADLY WATER Part 2: A trail of destruction across North West
28 October, 2025
Every good scandal needs an origin story – and CMS Water Engineering is no different.
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