Hushed up: Mayor Masina’s high speed crash in ‘borrowed’ blue light car

Tabelo Timse

1 October, 2021

City of Ekurhuleni mayor Mzwandile Masina was in a high-speed, midnight crash at the wheel of a luxury municipal car he allegedly had no permission to drive.

UPL disaster: Residents kept in the dark about dangers on their doorstep

Susan Comrie

21 September, 2021

Test results have finally confirmed that pesticides – including known carcinogens – poisoned rivers, soil and beaches in Durban.

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UPL disaster: Initial tests found high levels of arsenic from Durban’s chemical spill

Dewald van Rensburg and Susan Comrie

9 September, 2021

Eight weeks after a fire at the UPL chemical warehouse, long-awaited test results confirm that chemicals contaminated soil and rivers leaving them “highly toxic”.

AmaB Advocacy: Internal political party campaign financing — all eyes on the high court

Comment: AmaBhungane has argued in the Pretoria high court that donations to internal political party campaigns – which can lead ultimately to the candidate’s elevation to high office – are constitutionally required to be disclosed.

AmaB Advocacy: Internal political party campaign financing — all eyes on the high court

Comment: AmaBhungane has argued in the Pretoria high court that donations to internal political party campaigns – which can lead ultimately to the candidate’s elevation to high office – are constitutionally required to be disclosed.

RET influencer Sphithiphithi Evaluator ‘unmasked’ in insurrection case

AmaBhungane Team

30 August, 2021

The state alleges that a 36-year-old Twitter influencer was one of the instigators that ignited widespread unrest and looting in July.

“Dr Dan” Matjila’s secret deal to make Survé’s R700m debt to pensioners ‘disappear’

Dewald van Rensburg

Yet another court case has laid bare allegations the former chief executive of the Public Investment Corporation secretly signed away state pensioners’ claims worth hundreds of millions of rands to help his alleged friend, media mogul Iqbal Survé.

UPL chemical disaster: A gaping legal loophole or jaw-dropping negligence?

Susan Comrie and Dewald van Rensburg

20 August, 2021

How did a warehouse storing tons of toxic and flammable chemicals, some banned elsewhere, quietly move in next door to a school, a Makro superstore and a wetland without anyone knowing? .

UPL fire: Here’s the full inventory of chemicals in the destroyed Cornubia warehouse

Dewald van Rensburg and Susan Comrie

18 August, 2021

The long list of deadly pesticides, herbicides and intermediate products in the burned-down warehouse contains hundreds of entries totalling over 6 000m3.

Independent “outsources” staff to tap Public Investment Corporation billions

Dewald van Rensburg

Iqbal Survé’s Independent Media — and other companies in his Sekunjalo Investment Holdings stable — have moved dozens of workers to the legally unrelated but PIC-subsidised payroll of Ayo Technology Solutions.

Here it is: The toxic stockpile of chemicals in torched Durban warehouse

Susan Comrie and Dewald van Rensburg

17 August, 2021

UPL, one of the world’s largest chemical multinationals, refuses to disclose what poisoned a Durban river, the city’s air and its beaches.