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Advocacy analysis: Inside amaBhungane’s landmark ruling on surveillance
18 September, 2019
The constitution sets the bar, but can our spies and our state rise to the challenge?.
How David Masondo set the Hawks on his ex-mistress
15 September, 2019
The dramatic arrest last month of a woman accused of demanding a R300 000 bribe to stop harassing the deputy finance minister has a back story: an evidently traumatic abortion, and his offer to pay her the money for psychological treatment.
Brian Shivambu rocks up with R3m after pleading poverty
13 September, 2019
The EFF leader’s brother has had an astonishing reversal of fortunes.
Statement: Why Malema should not get away with banning us
The EFF’s ban of amaB and DM threatens not only the media, but democracy.
‘Global terrorist’ Dawood Ibrahim’s lasting grip on SA
10 September, 2019
Men suspected of planning assassinations in their native India were traced to South Africa in 2016 – but where are they now and where are the police?.
Pensioners’ showdown with state capture ‘architect’
5 September, 2019
Transnet pension fund sets out the A to Z of its exposure to ‘Gupta corruption'.
The barren Sahara: a lesson in money laundering
#GuptaLeaks records disclosed in new court papers shows the Gupta computer company made R122-million profit on a deal that cost it just R167.
Capitec blocks state capture payback
A Transnet pension fund has accused Capitec Bank of setting itself up to benefit from state capture abuses by blocking a major settlement for Transnet pensioners.
R349m ‘stolen’ from pensioners in four days
2 September, 2019
After allegations emerged in court of yet another scam that Regiments Capital used to plunder a Transnet pension fund, Regiments directors quickly agreed to pay half a billion rand to settle all the fund’s claims against it.
Goswami’s SA mandrax secrets
15 August, 2019
An international drug kingpin spills claims of hitmen, henchmen and high-ranking dealers.
Lesotho officials’ cannabis ‘conflict’
14 August, 2019
Ministry 'knew nothing' of their links with UK multinational.
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