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Analysis: Bathabile Dlamini’s Game of Chicken
25 February, 2017
Another week passes and social development minister Bathabile Dlamini still rushes headlong at South Africa’s future.
Advocacy: Report shows continued non-compliance with PAIA
23 February, 2017
PAIA is a powerful tool in the hands of investigative journalists, and the media in general.
The largest procurement in SA to date is in the hands of the High Court in Cape Town
21 February, 2017
Critics warn that the nuclear deal has the potential to bankrupt the country.
EXPOSED: The Guptas and the ‘box of gems’
19 February, 2017
Did the Guptas try to fly a case full of diamonds from the Oppenheimers’ private VIP terminal?.
Grants: Belamant holds a gun to SA’s head as Dlamini dawdles
18 February, 2017
A high stakes standoff over social grants is becoming a political proxy battlefield.
Malawian murder suspect surviving in South Africa on court appeals
17 February, 2017
Businessman Misozi Chanthunya has made a third application to the South African courts aimed at blocking his extradition to his home country.
Gupta-owned newspaper in line of fire of new Nielsen report
16 February, 2017
Data gathered by global market research firm Nielsen suggests The New Age newspaper benefits disproportionately from government advertising.
Read the Eskom report
9 February, 2017
A R20m investigation into the state-owned utility was cut short by its board.
EXCLUSIVE: Officials defied Dlamini on social grants
3 February, 2017
Social development minister and top officials are at odds over how to pay 17-million social grants from April.
Another front in the perception war exposed: Kenny Kunene, founder of Weekly Xposé
2 February, 2017
The businessman is the latest person to join a cause apparently to support the narrative that the Gupta family are victims of 'White Monopoly Capital'.
Rand Water’s fuzzy tender maths exposed in court
The parastatal brushed aside a lower bid that would have saved millions of rands.
Slaying the monster of financial crimes in Malawi
30 January, 2017
President Peter Mutharika says Malawi must fight back against the fraudulent movement of foreign exchange offshore, which is aggravating poverty.
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