UPDATE: Nurses’ union linked to Tembisa Hospital CEO faces deregistration

AmaBhungane Team

30 September, 2022

The union in question, the Young Nurses’ Indaba Trade Union has now been notified by the registrar of labour relations of its intention to deregister the union.

The collapse of old king coal (part 1)

Susan Comrie

27 September, 2022

In 2017, Eskom’s energy planning office looked out at the horizon and saw a problem: by 2022, the country would have too much electricity.

“Hijacked” nurses union sides with embattled Tembisa hospital boss

Mefika Ndlangamandla

22 September, 2022

The Young Nurses Indaba Trade Union (YNITU), a trade union organising healthcare workers, was allegedly hijacked in October last year in what one faction of union leaders, or national office-bearers, say was a bogus congress orchestrated by its then president Lerato Mthunzi.

The Durban whistleblower, the deadly hit and the dodgy R30m ‘debt’

Sam Sole and Greg Ardé

7 September, 2022

Ethekwini municipality’s attempt to hand a dubious R30-million “settlement” to a tenderpreneur — and punish the whistleblower who exposed its questionable origins — is unraveling thanks to a bungled court case.

Sasfin pursuing millions in “odious” school debts

Dewald van Rensburg

23 August, 2022

Seemingly questionable debts hobbling a poor school in Soweto have found their way into the investment bank’s vast securitisation programme, with apparently scant attention paid to the dubious underlying contracts.

EDITORIAL: Manufactured dissent

Sam Sole

16 August, 2022

“Anti-imperial” clique makes common cause with right wing.

Who killed New Frame?

Micah Reddy and Sam Sole

27 July, 2022

Evidence suggests the publication was hostage to its main donor, Roy Singham, that its failure to diversify its funding was a feature, not a bug, and that when it came to be regarded as less useful politically it was deliberately abandoned, rather than being given the chance to gain real independence.

Sasol, CEF to open “gas bridge” to Mozambique

Susan Comrie

20 July, 2022

Amidst an unprecedented loadshedding crisis, the Central Energy Fund is pushing ahead with energy minister Gwede Mantashe’s plan to build a “gas bridge” to Mozambique, while Eskom calls for up to 6 000 megawatts of new gas-fired power to urgently be added to the grid.

The veteran, the doctor and the PIC’s dodgy R600-million land deal

Dewald van Rensburg

15 July, 2022

Extracting money from the Public Investment Corporation for dubious projects seems to have been easy - if you were willing to shell out massive "fees" to connected gatekeepers.

Papa J and Prince: meet the men who were roped into the Phala Phala burglary “mastermind’s” escape to Namibia.

Tebogo Tshwane

1 July, 2022

Imanuwela David, the man alleged to be the ringleader in the robbery at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s game farm, skipped the country with the aid of two dodgy forex traders – a certain Papa J and a man named Prince.

Majola’s liquidated company wins disputed Lesotho airport tender

Keketso Mohalenyane Phakela

24 June, 2022

A questionable tender to fix Lesotho’s dilapidated airport to meet international standards has been thrown into confusion – first by a liquidation order from a South African judge, then by a phone call from amaBhungane.

Taxi ‘mafia’ blamed for deadly attacks on long distance buses

Sebe Buthelezi

9 June, 2022

As bloodshed and intimidation mar the long distance transport sector, bus company Intercape has pointed fingers at taxi bosses, accusing them of sustained mafia-style tactics and attempts at price-fixing — while the authorities, Intercape alleges, did little or nothing.