Comment: Zunaid Moti’s war on amaBhungane and on journalism

AmaBhungane Team

26 June, 2023

“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you are only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

2010 World Cup $10-million ‘bribe’: SA left out even as $201-million returned to FIFA 

Njabulo Ngidi

5 June, 2023

The sour legacy of the $10-million the South African Football Association (SAFA) allegedly paid to seal the award of the 2010 FIFA World Cup continues to haunt the association, its president Danny Jordaan and South African football at large, an.

#MotiFiles: Moti Group granted secret court order muzzling investigative journalists

AmaBhungane Team

2 June, 2023

Update: 3 June 2023 AmaBhungane welcomes the court order issued at midday today undoing the worst aspects of the order obtained against us by the Moti Group in a secret court hearing on Thursday.

Analysis: Moti’s war for credibility

AmaBhungane Team

18 May, 2023

When amaBhungane first approached businessman Zunaid Moti with detailed questions on 11 April, his lawyers stalled.

Zunaid Moti’s ‘inside man’ at Investec

AmaBhungane Team

17 May, 2023

There is an old cliché about banking: If you owe your bank a million it’s your problem.

Xolobeni murder: Hawks General fingered for shutting down investigation

Sam Sole

10 May, 2023

Major-General Gopaul ‘Gopz’ Govender, the recently appointed head of the Directorate for Priority Crimes Investigation (DPCI) in Limpopo, has been accused of attempting to close down the investigation of the murder of “Bazooka” Radebe, the late chair of the Amadiba.

The Moti Files: How businessman Zunaid Moti cosied up to the Mnangagwa regime

AmaBhungane Team

28 April, 2023

A trove of leaked internal documents has laid bare the close ties between controversial South African businessman Zunaid Moti and Zimbabwe’s highest-ranking politicians, bringing to light evidence of dubious multimillion dollar transactions, a sustained effort to accumulate political influence, and.

Gauteng Health bosses accused of bid-rigging in tender for kickbacks scheme

Tebogo Tshwane

24 April, 2023

A former service provider at Gauteng Health has gone on record and implicated the acting head of department Arnold Malotana and two other senior officials in a tender-rigging scheme in which they allegedly scored millions of rands in kickbacks.

#EarthCrimes:Free State’s foul failure 

Aisha Abdool Karim and Laura Lopez Gonzalez

11 April, 2023

A year ago the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) reinstated its assessment of the country’s 995 wastewater treatment plants.

Too good to be true – Malawi’s $6.8 billion jackpot?

Suzgo Chitete

1 April, 2023

Malawi was taken by storm in November last year when the government signed a deal purportedly worth US$6.

When online schooling goes wrong 

Tabelo Timse

27 March, 2023

On 17 January, a day before the matric results were released, Ntokozo Dlamini, 18 and a student at Seat Academy online school, was pacing up and down her house – the late results announcement this year added to her stress.

No water, no way out: Ditsobotla’s downfall and the collapse of government

Aisha Abdool Karim

21 March, 2023

At the heart of the North West province, roughly an hour’s drive from Mahikeng, lies one of the country’s worst-run municipalities.