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Bloated Cabinet weighs on Zim
18 September, 2015
The president ignores the country’s financial plight and appoints even more ministers.
Editorial: ANC must not do business with state
11 September, 2015
If a bidding company's financial relationship has the potential to favour it in the award of a tender, it should not be bidding in the first place.
ANC front bids for power station
Despite party policy and an investigation, Chancellor House is again trying to cash in on state contracts.
In the dark on Botswana-SA rhino move
Botswanan military aircraft flew in to SA to grab 20 rhinoceroses, but nobody seems to know why.
Mugabe’s white ally in land-grab row
4 September, 2015
Zimbabwean peasant farmers accuse Billy Rautenbach of destroying their livelihoods.
Firm fed toxic waste to pigs, claims government
A supplier to the police forensic laboratories faces charges of dumping dangerous chemicals.
Mystery of fat payment for Lesotho king’s pal
28 August, 2015
After nine years in jail for corruption and reappointment as adviser to Lesotho’s Highlands Water Project, Masupha Sole is being investigated again.
Editorial: Red flags bedevil NPA boss
Shaun Abrahams's flirtation with "information peddlers" and his intervention in the prosecution of Nomgcobo Jiba have raised concerns.
The NPA advocate and the ‘grabber’
Links to dubious "investigators" bug the new national director of public prosecutions, Shaun Abrahams.
Police question forensic supplies
21 August, 2015
A leaked police report suggests a SAPS chemicals supplier is possibly guilty of tender collusion.
Did Cape Town favour DA donor?
The city council is accused of favouring a political donor by bending strict heritage rules.
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