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Advocacy: AmaBhungane calls on parliament to halt finalisation of PIC Amendment Bill
11 March, 2019
In written submissions, amaBhungane has urged parliament to amend the PIC Act to allow for public access to records of the PIC's investment decisions.
SAPS Wars Part 2: It ain’t over till the fat Czech sings
7 March, 2019
Claims by Czech criminal Radovan Krejcir show how the parallel power struggle of the Western Cape police services and the province’s underworld is rooted in the unfinished business of politicised police factions at a national level.
SAPS Wars Part 1: The blurry blue line between the cops and the Cape underworld
4 March, 2019
Cape Town gangs are fighting each other.
ANC gambles on Twitter influencers
1 March, 2019
The party of liberation appears to have bought into the fake politics of paid Twitter, an amaBhungane investigation has found.
Comment: Sam Sole sets the record straight
25 February, 2019
AmaBhungane managing partner responds to personal attacks from Independent Newspapers boss Iqbal Survé and his Business Report editor, Adri Senekal-De Wet.
Advocacy: A call for disclosure of beneficial owners
20 February, 2019
The current Companies Amendment Bill revision offers an "ideal opportunity" to include a beneficial ownership disclosure.
‘Stiff drink’ scandal hits Zambia
17 February, 2019
A leaked letter shows that Zambia’s medicines regulator knew of potentially dangerous levels of anti-impotence drug Viagra in a Zambian-made energy drink.
Guptas drop millions on double wedding
8 February, 2019
While the Guptas’ former mine workers go unpaid, the family – sitting safe in Dubai – is defiantly going ahead with another over-the-top wedding.
Controversial sackings in Zambia’s health sector spark political rumours
6 February, 2019
Health minister Chitalu Chilufya fired two members of the Health Professions Council of Zambia allegedly because the oversight body's threats to shut down government hospitals — for major violations — is undermining the ruling party's popularity with voters.
Cost of extravagant eSwatini project ‘quadrupled to R4.8bn’
5 February, 2019
The signs are that like the recently constructed King Mswati III Airport, the ICC complex — built for an AU summit unlikely to happen — will turn out to be a facility eSwatini neither needs nor can afford.
A’yo goin’ down Dr Survé?
30 January, 2019
The PIC commission of inquiry has already cast doubt on the decision to put pensions money at the disposal of Iqbal Survé’s Sekunjalo group.
Analysis: Spy watchdog pushes on with probes, despite ‘threats and intimidation’
18 January, 2019
One of the crimes of the Zuma era was the wholesale politicisation and abuse of the intelligence services.
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