DEADLY WATER: The life and death of a tenderpreneur (Part 1)

Aisha Abdool Karim and Susan Comrie

21 October, 2025

In the early hours of 6 March 2023, Rudolf Schoeman Jnr was found dead in his Bryanston home.

Bus driver arrest deepens Intercape and taxi violence row

Buyeleni Sibanyoni

3 September, 2025

On 19 June 2025, Eastern Cape traffic officers arrested an Intercape bus driver in Ngcobo, Eastern Cape, after he refused to hand over his vehicle, still full of passengers, to be driven to an impound lot.

AmaBhungane Condemns the Killing of Palestinian Journalists and Attack on Media Freedom

AmaBhungane reporters

29 August, 2025

As journalists and a media organisation we have watched with increasing dismay and anger as journalists have been targeted and killed by the Israeli military in Gaza.

AmaBhungane bids to challenge the Public Procurement Act

Caroline James

8 August, 2025

It’s unlikely that you’ll open any newspaper or scroll through a news website these days without seeing an article about corruption in a government tender process.

Opinion: The JSE displays an unhealthy obsession with secrecy

Caroline James

7 August, 2025

Five years ago, a small company, Inhlanhla Ventures, was placed in a difficult financial position.

Milestone conviction in multi-billion “cum-ex” tax fraud tightens noose around Investec

Buyeleni Sibanyoni

31 July, 2025

The conviction of German lawyer and financial engineer Dr.

South Africa’s bad bet

Dewald van Rensburg

4 July, 2025

Rocketing online gambling has become a major source of extraction from the South African economy, riding on regulatory failure, cynical business practices and paid-for influence to profit off a mammoth new social ill.

Ties that bind: Inside Mashatile’s inner circle behind SA’s new lottery operator

Azarrah Karrim

28 June, 2025

A cache of pictures and video shows the cozy ties between Deputy President Paul Mashatile and the inner circle behind the new lottery operator, Sizekhaya Holdings.

Lottery Jackpot: Mashatile’s family tied to new multi-billion-rand operator deal 

Azarrah Karrim

23 June, 2025

Sizekhaya Holdings, which landed the lucrative licence to operate South Africa’s national lottery for eight years, has links to Deputy President Paul Mashatile.

Who got to go to Paris with Paul? Water tanker tenderpreneur joined Deputy President Mashatile’s France-SA business entourage 

AmaBhungane reporters

19 June, 2025

In May, a South African delegation led by Deputy President Paul Mashatile travelled to Paris for the South Africa-France Investment Conference.

Dirty Fuels Part 2: PetroSA’s R11-billion ‘contaminated’ petrol deal

Susan Comrie

8 June, 2025

In December 2023, TotalEnergies started to notice that something was off with a new kind of unleaded petrol that it was selling in the Garden Route.

IDT MISTRUST | Part 2: Minister Zikalala’s ‘whitewash’ that secured IDT CEO Malaka her job

Azarrah Karrim

31 May, 2025

Former public works minister Sihle Zikalala lowballed the findings of an investigation he had commissioned, paving the way for Tebogo Malaka’s appointment as chief executive of the Independent Development Trust (IDT) despite her involvement in a R45-million lease scandal.