ALL STORIES:
The fashion icon, her husband, the NSF and the SIU: the plot thickens
19 April, 2026
In May 2019, a group of young learners from Protea Glen, Soweto wrote a letter to the Gauteng government.
Comment & analysis: Who will save Tongaat-Hulett?
14 April, 2026
Insolvency practitioners and their lawyers are the hyenas of the economic system that our laws attempt to regulate.
Robert Gumede: Tongaat-Hulett’s not-so-sweet suitor
1 April, 2026
The man who has positioned himself as a business crusader coming to the rescue of embattled sugar giant Tongaat-Hulett Limited (THL) is facing ongoing claims that he was the mastermind behind one of the most outrageous alleged procurement frauds during.
Delinquent soccer club boss seeking to revive $1.2bn gas deal with PetroSA
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’
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
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
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
19 February, 2026
Johannesburg residents no longer look to their taps to provide water.
Update: The sobering data from inside Eskom
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
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
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
19 December, 2025
Dear amaB supporters, The decline and fall of empires is not for sissies – but fortunately, neither is South Africa.
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