PIC wants to “investigate” Sekunjalo directors after liquidation

Dewald van Rensburg

14 November, 2019

The Public Investment Corporation is sending out strong hints that it expects to find more than a financial meltdown when it winds up Iqbal Survé’s Sekunjalo Independent Media.

Advocacy release: AmaBhungane weighs in on CR17 dispute

amaBhungane

7 November, 2019

The amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism has applied to join the legal fray between Cyril Ramaphosa and Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane over the president’s failure to declare very large donations received by the CR17 ANC election campaign.

Update: Capitec clobbered in state capture payback case

amaBhungane

5 November, 2019

A scathing ruling has lashed the bank for blocking a R500-million settlement for struggling Transnet pensioners.

Advocacy release: No to Steinhoff secrecy

amaBhungane and Financial Mail

31 October, 2019

AmaBhungane and Financial Mail join forces to take on corporate “cover-up”.

Another blow for Survé as auditors quit

Dewald van Rensburg

17 October, 2019

Is Iqbal Survé’s ship sinking? His major financial backer sued him; he’s been raided; and now his auditors are jumping ship.

The great Samancor ‘heist’

Dewald van Rensburg

2 October, 2019

A profit shifting scheme and other dodgy deals orchestrated by the “world’s richest Croatian” have allegedly been used to siphon hundreds of millions of dollars offshore out of Samancor Chrome.

Analysis: When it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck …

amaBhungane

30 September, 2019

Here’s why we think a Tshwane tenderpreneur’s R15m paid to EFF-linked companies was corrupt.

Tender comrades part 2: Tshwane tenderpreneur’s R15m ‘EFF tithe’

Micah Reddy and Stefaans Brümmer

We present the clearest evidence yet that EFF leaders are taking kickbacks for contracts in cities where the party emerged as kingmaker after the 2016 municipal elections.

Advocacy: Civil society organisations gravely concerned with the chilling effect of persistent PAIA non-compliance

AmaBhungane Team

27 September, 2019

The ATI Network is a coalition of civil society and media organisations, who have since 2008 worked collaboratively to advance the constitutional right to information as provided for in the Promotion of Access to Information Act of 2000.

Update: Brian Shivambu finds another R1.5m to settle VBS debt

amaBhungane

26 September, 2019

… but just who rescued the EFF leader’s brother remains unclear.

Tender comrades part 1: Trailing the Juju tractor

Micah Reddy and Stefaans Brümmer

19 September, 2019

A tractor the EFF “donated” to supporters in Limpopo; the implausibility of an earlier alibi for payments to Julius Malema-linked Mahuna Investments; and a newly-revealed payment to another Malema company – the evidence is stacking up that the party and its leader took kickbacks from a massive City of Johannesburg contract.

Analysis: Inside amaBhungane’s landmark ruling on surveillance

Sam Sole

18 September, 2019

The constitution sets the bar, but can our spies and our state rise to the challenge?.