Trouble for Mazars over failed PetroSA deals

Susan Comrie

9 February, 2025

Mazars’ due diligence helped to green light three scandal-plagued deals between PetroSA, Russia’s Gazprombank Africa and notorious wheeler dealer Lawrence Mulaudzi.

Inside the PwC report: What really brought Steinhoff to its knees

Rob Rose for Currency, Financial Mail and amaBhungane

6 February, 2025

It is late November 2017 and Steinhoff, already Europe’s second-largest furniture retailer after Ikea, is scrambling to convince its auditor Deloitte to sign off its accounts for the year to September, due to be published a week later, on December.

IDT contractor embroiled in Health DG bribe allegations won highly suspect tender, new evidence shows

Azarrah Karrim

5 February, 2025

A trove of documents obtained by amaBhungane show how the Independent Development Trust (IDT) appointed a contractor embroiled in bribery allegations involving director general of the Department of Health Dr Sandile Buthelezi, despite obvious warning signs in the procurement process.

PetroSA’s deal with Russia implodes

Susan Comrie

22 January, 2025

It was Cabinet – not PetroSA – who announced, in December 2023, that Russia’s Gazprombank had been selected to restart Mossel Bay’s gas-to-liquids refinery.

NPA in crisis: Andrea Johnson’s unguided missile

Graeme Hosken and Sam Sole | AmaBhungane Managing Partner

20 January, 2025

Meet Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndhlovu, the well-connected military contractor and prosecution witness who was primed to nail a big fish: Parliamentary Speaker and former defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula.

Damning affidavit, if true, exposes the banality of former Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s alleged corruption.

Graeme Hosken and Sam Sole | AmaBhungane Managing Partner

Former defence minister and Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is back in court today for an application by her lawyers to try to force the disclosure of parts of the prosecution docket the State says are confidential.

Inside job: the rise and fall of the woman who brought down Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula

Graeme Hosken

19 January, 2025

Be sure to also read part two of this story, as well as our in-depth analysis.

Joburg awards R263-million water tanker tender to two 20-somethings

Buyeleni Sibanyoni

22 December, 2024

With the city in the grip of a crippling water crisis, Johannesburg Water has awarded a questionable R263-million contract to supply water tankers to two obscure companies, both owned and run by directors from the Eastern Cape in their 20s.

Outdated reliance on sub judice hinders the constitutional imperative of transparency

Caroline James

As an investigative journalism unit, a core part of our task involves sending questions to various entities.

#TheLaundry: Sasfin Bank’s snake pit

Dewald van Rensburg

19 December, 2024

This year, Sasfin Bank seemingly declared defeat after a series of scandalous revelations about the deep rot in its foreign exchange business.

#TheLaundry: From government contracts to a laundry web

Dewald van Rensburg

12 December, 2024

In the course of the Covid-19 pandemic the South African government went large on emergency contracts for everything from masks and hand sanitiser to makeshift housing and hospital beds.

Health DG, IDT CEO paved way for dodgy R836m oxygen plant contracts

Azarrah Karrim and Pieter-Louis Myburgh (Daily Maverick)

10 December, 2024

Signed appointment letters and related documents reveal that the National Department of Health’s (NDoH) top official and his counterpart at the Independent Development Trust (IDT) played key roles in an allegedly unlawful project to install oxygen plants at state hospitals.