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Today is World Press Freedom Day

This year’s United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) theme is “Journalism under Digital Siege”.

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The Guptas and coal: how state capture hobbled Alexkor, part 2

The teetering diamond miner Alexkor might be a lesser-known victim of state capture, but evidence before the state capture commission suggests Gupta family associates not only had an interest in the company’s diamond sales, they also had grand plans to use a repurposed Alexkor for their own coal interests.

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All that glitters: how state capture hobbled Alexkor

The Guptas’ poisonous legacy still haunts the diamond coast of the Northern Cape. Alexkor, the state diamond mine at the mouth of the Orange river, “has been destroyed by corruption and state capture” its miners say.

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The R280m Joburg ‘crime scene’: How CoJ kept Kgoro in business (part three)

In part three of the series, we look at how the city, under the ANC’s leadership, rolled over and allowed a politically-connected consortium to hijack three hectares of prime city land.

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Update: McKinsey to return R870m state-capture money to Transnet

The money was earned from a three-year partnership between the consulting behemoth and state capture enabler Regiments Capital. McKinsey continues to insist that it was unaware that Regiments was channeling part of the fees to the Guptas.

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Nedbank scandal in your pocket: Now for the ebook

Miss out on amaB’s investigation into Nedbank and state capture? Download the easy-on-the-eye ebook here.

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State capture: The case against Nedbank

Susan Comrie and Sam Sole
Feb 8, 2021

In the saga of disgraced financial services firm Regiments Capital, one name keeps popping up: Nedbank. After years of digging, we can disclose that the bank incentivised the firm to peddle the bank's financial products to public sector clients that Regiments was supposed to advise impartially. Together, they raked in hundreds of millions.

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Update: Sars freezes R2.8-billion from Chinese rail company that paid Gupta kickbacks

The tax collector can breathe a sigh of relief after the court ordered a last-minute halt to the release of funds linked to state capture.

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At a minute to midnight, Sars attempts to secure R4bn state capture loot

Stefaans Brümmer
Dec 4, 2020

Days before the Reserve Bank must release funds it quietly froze to Chinese rail group CRRC, the taxman goes to court to preserve them and prepares to claim billions from CRRC based on evidence that it paid kickbacks to the Guptas.

#MotiFiles: Moti Group granted secret court order muzzling investigative journalists

AmaBhungane reporters
Jun 2, 2023

Guptas

Today is World Press Freedom Day

The Guptas and coal: how state capture hobbled Alexkor, part 2

All that glitters: how state capture hobbled Alexkor

The R280m Joburg ‘crime scene’: How CoJ kept Kgoro in business (part three)

Update: McKinsey to return R870m state-capture money to Transnet

Nedbank scandal in your pocket: Now for the ebook

State capture: The case against Nedbank

Update: Sars freezes R2.8-billion from Chinese rail company that paid Gupta kickbacks

At a minute to midnight, Sars attempts to secure R4bn state capture loot

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