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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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Zim tobacco barons’ planned capture of Tongaat Hulett

Sam Sole, Micah Reddy and Dewald van Rensburg
Jan 18, 2022

Zimbabwe’s controversial Rudland family is set to take control of the 130-year-old southern African sugar giant in a R2-billion takeover that has left some existing shareholders furious and raises fears the transaction could become a channel into the legitimate economy for dodgy cash.

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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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AmaB Analysis: We must reclaim the state

We cannot abandon the state, even though it feels like the state has abandoned us.

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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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Nedbank recoils in light of state capture allegations

Sam Sole and Susan Comrie
Feb 13, 2021

Following an amaBhungane exposé, the bank faces tough questions about its relationship with a key state capture enabler. It is largely staying silent.

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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.

No water, no way out: Ditsobotla’s downfall and the collapse of government

Aisha Abdool Karim
Mar 21, 2023

State Capture

Today is World Press Freedom Day

Zim tobacco barons’ planned capture of Tongaat Hulett

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

AmaB Analysis: We must reclaim the state

Nedbank scandal in your pocket: Now for the ebook

Nedbank recoils in light of state capture allegations

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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No water, no way out: Ditsobotla’s downfall and the collapse of government

AmaBhungane is hiring a digital coordinator!

State of procurement disaster: Wide powers and vague rules for emergency procurement under the State of Disaster threaten a new license to loot

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