State Capture 2.0: SSA agent confirms key details of whistleblower’s Public Protector affidavit

17 December, 2019

A key official confirms aspects of a whistleblower’s shock claims of improper conduct by Busisiwe Mkhwebane, and sheds new light on her relationship with the spy agency.

State Capture 2.0 Part 2: Mkhwebane ordered investigator to ‘remove information’ on Ace, Zwane in Estina report

News24 and AmaBhungane Team

15 December, 2019

Whistleblower blows the lid on how the Public Protector allegedly cooked the Estina investigation.

State Capture 2.0 Part 1: Spies instructed public protector on SARB report

News24 and AmaBhungane Team

Whistleblower reveals the SSA drafted Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s order to nationalise the Reserve Bank.

Ramaphosa Jnr’s blockchain belly-flop

Micah Reddy

13 December, 2019

The president’s hipster son is the brain behind a much-hyped AI conference – but is it the tech mini-equivalent of the infamously flopped Fyre Festival?.

Analysis: At EFF congress, keep an eye on money man Marshall Dlamini

Micah Reddy

11 December, 2019

Rumour of an EFF factional war has been swirling about in the run-up to the party’s elective conference, with headlines like “Malema Faces an EFF Rebellion” capturing a sense of the alleged internal ructions.

Geoff Makhubo: Joburg’s tainted mayor-in-waiting

Susan Comrie

2 December, 2019

Investigators — from the city and beyond — are sniffing at “city capture” deals where the ANC regional boss may be implicated.

Fleet company that paid Malema fails to deliver on Joburg contract

Micah Reddy, Stefaans Brümmer and Sam Sole

It’s a year since amaBhungane exposed how fleet company Afrirent funnelled money into a Malema-EFF slush fund – as it scored a R1.

Analysis: How ex-PIC boss swallowed Iqbal Survé’s Indy lemon

Dewald van Rensburg

29 November, 2019

Dan Matjila bent over backwards to forgive all the debts owed by Iqbal Survé’s media group – and then some.

Advocacy release: amaB and FM launch application to access Zuma’s tax records

amaBhungane

27 November, 2019

We have initiated public interest litigation challenging two Acts’ tax secrecy provisions.

Dr Dan and Dr Survé mistreat the PIC

Sam Sole

25 November, 2019

The perfidy of the two doctors – Dan Matjila and Iqbal Survé – is emerging from a matrix of court documents, evidence at the inquiry into the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) and other information obtained by amaBhungane.

Survé’s share ‘manipulation’: the smoking gun(s)

Dewald van Rensburg

Pervasive suspect share trading by the embattled businessman may land the FSCA a rare slam dunk in its highest-profile share manipulation case yet.

How VBS plotters helped kill another bank, this time in Namibia

Dewald van Rensburg

15 November, 2019

Evidence is mounting that VBS aided another elaborate bank heist north of the border by producing fake paper trails and channeling stolen cash to fool regulators and auditors – ultimately leading to the collapse of yet another small institution serving the poor and vulnerable.