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Swaziland’s name change challenged in court
28 August, 2018
The court challenges comes after King Mswati announced in April that Swaziland would be called eSwatini.
Advocacy: AmaB approaches Nugent on Sars using tax law against journalists
20 August, 2018
Press release.
The Trojan horse that wheeled R600m out of state-owned entities
15 August, 2018
Records show how Regiments Capital passed more than half of its consulting fees from Transnet, SAA and Denel contracts to Gupta and Essa fronts.
‘They sold us a dead dream’
31 July, 2018
North West contractors who were meant to benefit from a public works scheme were left stranded and in debt when it fell apart after just 6-months.
The “Gupta Minyan” and the R647-million Transnet scam
30 July, 2018
A trail left by Salim Essa led us to a group of businessmen who claim their community has shunned them because of their Gupta-association.
Businessmen ‘prey’ on indigent Namibians to poach rhino for international syndicates
27 July, 2018
We investigate the role of wealthy local businessmen in driving rhino poaching in Namibia.
The Paradise Papers: revealing financial secrets of the world’s wealthiest 1%
Millions of leaked records highlight damning cases of tax abuse involving multinational companies, high level politicians and even royals.
Christo Wiese, Tullow Oil and ENS’s tax dodging services
19 July, 2018
Tax advisers at ENSafrica sold tycoon Wiese a lemon — one that now implicates him in what Sars has described as an elaborate "tax evasion" scheme.
Bitter Namibian land dispute drags in senior politicians
9 July, 2018
A highly favourable lease signed by Namibia’s current vice-president, Nangolo Mbumba, is at the heart of an ownership battle.
What SAP really knew about the Guptas
Newly-leaked documents show that the software giant knew it was dealing with the Guptas more than a year before the #GuptaLeaks allegations emerged.
One of Botswana’s biggest landholders embroiled in controversy
A lack of clarity from directors of an opaque British-registered company has raised more questions over its colonial-era land holdings.
Advocacy: Media welcome Constitutional Court ruling on party funding
28 June, 2018
Media is now calling for greater transparency in the Political Party Funding Bill.
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