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Leaders fail us on local government, not the law

l Image: Shutterstock Leaders fail us on local government, not the law A new Whi...

Who got to go to Paris with Paul? Water tanker tenderpr...

In May, a South African delegation led by Deputy President Paul Mashatile travel...

OUTA Proposes: No fines while there's  a driving licenc...

l Image: OUTA OUTA Proposes: No fines while there’s a driving licence card backl...

No fines while there’s a driving licence card backlog, ...

l Image: OUTA Repeat main headline here The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA...

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

In December 2023, TotalEnergies started to notice that something was off with a ...

IDT MISTRUST | Part 2: Minister Zikalala’s ‘whitewash’ ...

Former public works minister Sihle Zikalala lowballed the findings of an investi...

Scam Empire Part 3: Money in, money out

This investigation is based on a large leak of data originally provided to Sveri...

Inside the PwC report: What really brought Steinhoff to...

It is late November 2017 and Steinhoff, already Europe’s second-largest furnitur...

Scam Empire part 2: behind the veil

Two weeks ago we revealed the existence of an astonishing international syndicat...

NPA in crisis: Andrea Johnson’s unguided missile

Meet Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndhlovu, the well-connected military contractor and prosec...

IDT Mistrust: Beleaguered IDT paid R33m to company belo...

The beleaguered Independent Development Trust (IDT) paid a company directed by a...

Trouble for Mazars over failed PetroSA deals

Mazars’ due diligence helped to green light three scandal-plagued deals between ...

AmaB at 15: looking back, looking ahead

Dear reader, I write to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the first article publ...

PetroSA’s deal with Russia implodes

It was Cabinet – not PetroSA – who announced, in December 2023, that Russia’s Ga...

#TheLaundry: the bullshit artist, the fuel traders and ...

On 16 October 2020 André Malherbe, an investigator at the South African Reserve ...

IDT mistrust: bid ‘manipulation’ in R436m road tenders ...

Signs of manipulation in award of R436m worth of road tenders, with largest goin...