covid19

Advocacy

Advocacy comment: Beneficial ownership disclosure is indispensable in the fight against procurement ‘hyenas’

That there are opportunists who will look at a global tragedy and see only a chance to defraud the public purse underscores an urgent need: we must know who these people are. We need beneficial ownership transparency in procurement.

Advocacy

Advocacy comment: AmaBhungane fights for media access to courts under lockdown

Lockdown shouldn’t have to mean 'locked out': amaBhungane champions keeping courts accessible to the media in the time of Covid-19.

Stories

Betting on the banks in a time of Covid-19

Dewald van Rensburg
May 5, 2020

Government’s major stimulus measures rely on the financial sector – banks in particular – to support real economic activity in exchange for unprecedented (temporary) deregulation and other support. How’s that working out so far?

Stories

Gone phishing: Business owner almost scammed by fake Covid-19 government tender

Fraudsters claiming to be health department officials are peddling tenders for a non-existent sanitiser machine.

Stories

Wild West Web: the return of the scam

It takes less than a weekend for a blocked website to reinvent itself and go after the same target audience.

Stories

Covid-19 exposes sanitation failures

Grandstanding about a Cuban Covid-19 “vaccine” allowed mayor Mzwandile Masina to avoid hard questions about getting his water and sanitation house in order.