ALL STORIES:
Dubai nightmare continues for scam victims
29 January, 2017
Three South Africans jailed after being scammed by an international fraudster still cannot go home.
Top official endorsed ANC war room
Secret recordings reveal key ANC manager’s hand in ‘black-ops’ campaign.
Malawi government’s R20m bombshell
25 January, 2017
A stadium project in Blantyre which cost millions is to be scrapped and demolished and a new one built.
Inside the ANC’s “black ops” election campaign
24 January, 2017
A covert team, first known as the War Room, intended to “disempower" opposition party campaigns and set a pro-ANC agenda without revealing its hand.
Update: Now ANC admits off-books campaigner helped with elections
The ANC has backpedaled on claims that it had no knowledge of a covert election campaign team known as the War Room.
‘Transnet sold us false dreams’
9 January, 2017
Pictures of smiling Maritime School graduates might belie a disturbing reality.
Dear Friends and Foes
15 December, 2016
THIS FESTIVE SEASON, SUPPORT JOURNALISM THAT HOLDS POWER TO ACCOUNT.
Serge Belamant, SASSA, and the ‘useful blacks’
Belamant used a BEE front to win a R10b tender before dumping it for a person with links to social development minister Bathabile Dlamini.
The R10bn social grants tender that kept on giving
14 December, 2016
Since Sassa controversially awarded Cash Paymaster the tender in 2012, we have investigated maladministration and political links to the scandal.
The Namibian prison warder who built an empire on state contracts
13 December, 2016
Namibian “Tender King” Vaino Nghipondoka is at the centre of a row over the Namibian government’s failed N$4-billion oil deal with Angola.
Mandela Bay gangsters style themselves after Western Cape ‘Numbers’ gangs
12 December, 2016
Port Elizabeth is emerging as one of the country's major centres of gangsterism – and there are fears that gang-related crime will rise over December.
From Zuma Inc to the Zuptas – a story of perseverance
8 December, 2016
AmaBhungane acknowledges the many readers who have supported our mission.
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