Investigations
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May 18 2012
The SACP criticised the project from the outset, but its investment arm has a stake in it.
May 18 2012
Certain aspects of the tenderpreneur's finances are easy to trace, but cash payments are more opaque.
May 11 2012
ANC treasurer says if taxpayers do not contribute they cannot ask for transparency
May 11 2012
Man 'disappeared' after recovering R28-million for the Swazi government — but was easy to find
May 11 2012
Mdluli remains powerful while his protectors play for time. 
May 04 2012
Informed by a fuzzy opinion that self-regulation has failed, it exposes the industry to manipulation
May 04 2012
Prior to delivery, the MD-87 passed through firms specialising in ownership subterfuge
May 04 2012
Liquidators say Solly and Fazel Bhana were behind the collapse of the Pamodzi gold mines, stripping the mines' assets while workers went unpaid.
May 04 2012
The realm where politics and business merge is a murky arena that threatens our democracy.
May 04 2012
Men who investigated murder charge against Richard Mdluli were threatened with charges
Apr 26 2012
The Press Freedom Commission has called for more public participation and a hierarchy of penalties, but rejected the idea of a media tribunal.
Apr 26 2012
The origin of the costly "gift" -- a DC-9 aircraft -- is a mystery, but activists say it was bought for King Mswati III by Swaziland's government.
Apr 20 2012
A who's who of the companies behind the billion-rand social grants tender has shown a lot of contradictions, and revealed more links to Tokyo Sewale.
Apr 20 2012
One of Jacob Zuma's most trusted bodyguards has been placed in charge of the operational spying structures of the police service.
Apr 20 2012
Relatives claim they still bear the scars of brutal intimidation by crime boss Richard Mdluli
Apr 20 2012
The government has yet to reveal what caused the aeroplane crash that killed the football team
Apr 20 2012
A new regulatory regime is imminent for SA's newspaper industry wherein an independent regulator will have the power to impose fines on newspapers.
Apr 20 2012
The son of Equatorial Guinea's president, who is also a government minister accused of corruption, has been getting cozy with the Mswati clan.
Apr 13 2012
Swaziland's King Mswati III has become embroiled in a row with the telecommunications parastatal over the direction of telephony in the kingdom.
Apr 13 2012
Henry Banda of Zambia is staying put in
South Africa, citing prejudice against him.
Apr 13 2012
BEE firm that will reap rewards from huge payout tender refuses to reveal its shareholders
Apr 13 2012
The men accused of harassing his love rival enjoyed rapid and spectacular promotions
Apr 13 2012
Richard Mdluli and Bheki Cele have become proxies in different ANC factions' battle for political control of
key state security agencies.
Apr 05 2012
Muddled opinions by the inspector general were used as a pretext to reinstate spy boss Richard Mdluli, but her advice to prosecute him was ignored.
Apr 05 2012
Sources reveal a terrifying situation at the mobile operator company's headquarters in Tehran.
Mar 30 2012
Henry Banda, the son of former Zambia president Rupiah Banda, is wanted by Interpol but he has permanent residence and a business in South Africa.
Mar 30 2012
A report to the inspector general of intelligence sets out the crime intelligence boss's alleged fraud in detail.
Mar 30 2012
A rival company has lodged evidence in a United States court that details how South African company -- MTN -- secured a lucrative deal in Iran.
Mar 30 2012
Zuma's allies directly influenced the decision to drop all charges against crime intelligence boss.
Mar 29 2012
Read the secret Crime Intelligence Division report which outlines alleged abuses of its funds by division head Lt-Gen Richard Mdluli.
Mar 23 2012
The price tag for six new nuclear reactors envisaged in SA's energy road map could range from a modest R322-billion to a staggering R1.4-trillion.
Mar 23 2012
The BEE consortium that is part of the winning bidder for a massive social grant tender has many links to Mvelaphanda, Tokyo Sexwale's company.
Mar 23 2012
Spy boss Richard Mdluli, whom Jacob Zuma "owes for his acquittal on rape charges", has emerged as part of a complex network "guarding" the president.
Mar 16 2012
A suspended top spook's 'sponsored' comeback pits spy vs spy in a dirty battle to gain the upper hand before the ANC elective conference in Mangaung.
Mar 16 2012
The new intelligence Bill has run into a new flak as critics complain that it threatens to concentrate power in the state security minister’s hands.
Mar 16 2012
Leaders flock south for medical care at taxpayers’ expense as country’s healthcare sector founders.
Mar 16 2012
A once promising geyser manufacturer is under pressure and faces closure following funding cuts.
Mar 09 2012
President Jacob Zuma's lawyer Michael Hulley has played various roles in the drawn-out awarding of a disputed multi-billion rand contract.
Mar 09 2012
The two beleaguered companies have a number of business consultants and associates in common.
Mar 09 2012
Police commissioner and his expert-turned-adversary testified this week.
Mar 02 2012
Former Pamodzi liquidator Enver Motala has roped in ANC heavyweights in an urgent bid to wipe his slate clean by securing a presidential pardon.
Mar 02 2012
Adjudicators of a previous social-grants tender failed to tell the police about the bribe.
Mar 02 2012
Alstom, a French engineering company with links to the SA nuclear industry, is in the firing line for 'improper payments' to an official in Zambia.
Mar 02 2012
Troubled low-cost airline Velvet Sky stands accused by petrol giant BP of resorting to "desperate cash-raising measures to stave off bankruptcy".
Feb 24 2012
NEWS ANALYSIS: There is little clarity about the form a media appeals tribunal is likely to take.
Feb 24 2012
The state has allegedly urged French and Chinese nuclear companies to put in a bid for nuclear power stations, but the energy department denies this.
Feb 24 2012
The human settlements department has launched a whistleblower witch-hunt after a damning audit exposing a dodgy R72.6-million IT contract was leaked.
Feb 24 2012
Details have emerged of disputed alibis and further shenanigans in the battle between Kumba and Imperial Crown Trading to secure the rights to Sishen.
Feb 24 2012
"Open chequebook" bribe claim hits controversial tender award, as Norman Arendse reveals social grants scandal implicating sports boss Gideon Sam.
Feb 17 2012
When Nigerian-American businessman Kase Lawal courted Thabo Mbeki in an oil deal South Africa got screwed. Now he is cosying up to Jacob Zuma.
Feb 17 2012
ANALYSIS: The prime driver of the ANC's assault on the judiciary inexplicably escaped prosecution.
Feb 17 2012
Prosecutor Glynnis Breytenbach is still waiting to hear from the NPA what she has done wrong.
Feb 17 2012
A social grants payment contract has sparked a court battle because it was awarded to foreign firm with a chequered past in South Africa.
Feb 16 2012
Motivating the bail applications of Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir, his lawyer told the court he made donations to various South African charities.
Feb 10 2012
Public hearings on the secrecy Bill is your last chance to make your voice heard.
Feb 10 2012
Now crisis management gets under way as commuters demand refunds for unused tickets.
Feb 10 2012
An economist in the department is accused of breaking the law to evict tenants who refused to leave her property within 48 hours.
Feb 10 2012
The three-year battle between Imperial Crown Trading and Kumba Iron Ore for a multibillion-rand stake in Sishen is getting dirtier and dirtier.
Feb 10 2012
Lawyer says a department manager died as he was about to spill the beans about controversial deal.
Feb 10 2012
Observers fear Glynnis Breytenbach is the victim of collateral damage in the battle between the Sishen mining rivals.
Feb 10 2012
Competing mobile operators MTN and Turkcell are keeping silent on the latter's claims that MTN bribed its way into Iran six years ago.
Feb 10 2012
Police follow up leads that point to a wider conspiracy in Gemballa murder case.
Feb 03 2012
Despite an uneasy calm since a 'turf war' led to the merging of nightclub 'security services' in the Cape, there are still scores to be settled.
Feb 03 2012
The alarm has been sounded over a proposed law that will create an intelligence monolith and allow wider bugging of SA citizens without a warrant.
Feb 03 2012
Treasury paves way for unit to begin investigation into evidence unearthed by intervention force.
Feb 03 2012
Former top cop gets a second reprieve because an inquest must precede a trial.
Jan 27 2012
The repeated use of this aircraft suggests that the department has a contract with ExecuJet, despite court battle with AdoAir.
Jan 27 2012
But the trade union federation stops short of calling for a mandatory media tribunal.
Jan 27 2012
Major roleplayers feel that the corporatisation of the industry has short-changed them.
Jan 20 2012
Home Affairs declares Serbian fugitive a "prohibited person".
Jan 20 2012
The SABC’s new boss chaired a mining company that went into meltdown, in which controversial Thai billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra played a role.
Jan 13 2012
An affidavit tabled by new defence secretary Sam Gulube suggests that there may have been grave flaws in the R800-million presidential jet tender.
Jan 13 2012
Court papers accuse controversial former Pamodzi liquidator of more lies and fraud.
Jan 13 2012
Testimony by investigator Paul Hendrikse has linked Serbian fugitive Dobrosav Gavric to mobsters, but his lawyer says the Hawks are "throwing mud".
Jan 06 2012
The tentacles of Mozambican President Armando Emilio Guebuza's huge family business empire make Zuma Incorporated look like a spaza-shop operation.
Jan 06 2012
Persistent complaints to the Competition Commission sparked an inquiry into alleged collusion between the major players in the horse-racing industry.
Jan 06 2012
A Serbian fugitive living in SA fears he will be murdered if he returns home to face justice for slaying "Arkan", a Serbian gangster and war criminal.
Jan 06 2012
The globalisation of organised crime has led to the detritus of Central Europe's underworld -- gangsters and hitmen -- washing up on our own shores.
Jan 06 2012
SA's new acting prosecutions chief, Nomgcobo Jiba has risen to the highest echelons of the justice system, despite a chequered past within in the NPA.
Dec 23 2011
Craig McKune takes a look at all the hands that were caught in the cookie jar this year.
Dec 23 2011
The unofficial identification of the man present with Cyril Beeka when he was shot in a drive-by assassination has deepened the mystery of his murder.
Dec 15 2011
The ANC is accused of diverting state money from much-needed causes to spend on electioneering.
Dec 15 2011
Mystery fund appears to have been duplicated in the Northern Cape.
Dec 15 2011
The Press Freedom Commission returned from an international study tour and will be able to show the ANC a good example of press self-regulation.
Dec 15 2011
The lease for the ICD building was signed by Roux Shabangu, even though the building was owned by his former partner, Japie van Niekerk.
Dec 15 2011
Hawks sources claim that the provisional withdrawal of the charges is "sinister".
Dec 15 2011
Much rests on a court decision on who owns a minority stake in the lucrative mine.
Dec 15 2011
The rows over Mac Maharaj and Willem Heath are a new phase in an old war between the acolytes of Thabo Mbeki and the minds behind Operation Vula.
Dec 15 2011
Dispute over R1-billion contract award set for court.
Dec 09 2011
Property tycoon Roux Shabangu has joined other voices in a public effort to validate the deal.
Dec 09 2011
Rob Adam is going to a construction group that will bid for the massive government nuclear tender.
Dec 09 2011
Contrary to reports, Tokyo Sexwale and Kgalema Motlanthe still have a case to answer for the the parts they played in the Oilgate scandal.
Dec 09 2011
If allegations are true, South Africa's Crime Intelligence Service, accused of blatantly abusing secret service funds, is the country's biggest mafia.
Dec 09 2011
Only one general in the unit remains in his job. The police are mum on the reasons, but sources say they are linked to conspiracy or corruption.
Dec 02 2011
ANALYSIS: Without a public interest defence the Secrecy Bill is flawed and unconstitutional.
Dec 02 2011
The latest legal developments in Mac vs the M&G.
Dec 02 2011
President Jacob Zuma has relied heavily on the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) in his attempts to demonstrate his determination to fight corruption.
Dec 02 2011
Willem Heath has followed a winding road since he last headed the Special Investigating Unit.
Nov 25 2011
Presidential spokesperson Mac Maharaj has responded to questions from the M&G, pertaining to Friday's story "The evidence that damns Mac".
Nov 25 2011
A trail of evidence seen by the M&G shows Mac Maharaj as transport minister took payment after payment from contract bidder Schabir Shaik.
Nov 25 2011
International Relations Minister failed to declare a R100 000 benefit.
Nov 25 2011
The new airline Velvet Sky hired a director and advisers of failed mining company Aurora Empowerment Systems to help "grow the company".
Nov 25 2011
Mac Maharaj faces a predicament on how to respond to the serious allegations levelled against him in media reports on his section 28 testimony.
Nov 19 2011
Presidential spokesperson Mac Maharaj's attorneys have laid charges against the Mail & Guardian and two of our senior journalists.
Nov 18 2011
Parliament's scrutiny of Roux Shabangu's lease agreement has flushed out new evidence to suggest the public works department "blind signed" the ICD.
Nov 18 2011
Court gets new details of both Aurora's bid to take over Pamodzi's mines and its running of them.
Nov 17 2011
The M&G has been compelled to suppress a report about presidential spokesperson Mac Maharaj, following a threat of criminal prosecution.
Nov 11 2011
Botswana has been awarded this year's "Golden Padlock" award for the Southern African country with the most secretive public institutions.
Nov 11 2011
Parliament's ethics committee's attempt to bring MP Yolanda Botha to book has been derailed by last-minute manoeuvring.
Nov 11 2011
Enver Motala, who came under fire for the liquidation of Pamodzi Gold mines, allegedly changed his name to disguise 93 previous fraud convictions.
Nov 11 2011
Dysfunctional record-keeping keeps watchdog groups and the media in the dark.
Nov 11 2011
Documents confirm the problematic top-secret security clearance of a senior crime intelligence official.
Nov 11 2011
Company that loses contract takes defence department to court to explain its decision.
Nov 11 2011
Meet the two most powerful and politically well-connected businesswomen in KZN.
Nov 11 2011
Investigations by the Hawks, the public protector and Sars into "Malema Inc" may be in their infancy but reports suggest he should be worried.
Nov 07 2011
The DA has called on the president to send the Burma ambassador to SA packing, after investigations suggest he has a questionable human rights record.
Nov 04 2011
An M&G investigation has found Burma's ambassador to SA, Myint Naung may be a former brigadier general linked to serious human rights abuses.
Nov 04 2011
A building leased to the Independent Complaints Directorate has been fingered for a fourfold leap in directorate's bill.
Nov 04 2011
Malema's extravagant host in Mauritius, David Mabilu made his millions by buying land from one arm of government and reselling it to another.
Nov 04 2011
As the sun sets on the now-liquidated mining company, Aurora director Michael Hulley's selection as the president's legal adviser has raised eyebrows.
Oct 28 2011
Disgraced former police chief will claim in appeal court that he was the victim of a Scorpions plot.
Oct 28 2011
CLARIFICATION: Magashule may not have signed the lease himself, but his role in its authorisation is clear.
Oct 28 2011
Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir was linked to another mysterious incident this week when one of his alleged bodyguards was shot and arrested.
Oct 28 2011
A leaked report on the contract to supply SA with submarines has exposed the major deceit at the heart of the arms deal: inflated promises of offsets.
Oct 28 2011
The scope of the probe into claims of corruption and impropriety in the arms deal has been hailed as "better than a sharp stick in the eye".
Oct 25 2011
Calling on our readers: help us identify the people in these photos.
Oct 21 2011
The cartoonist believes it is too prescriptive and ignores the creative freedom of artists.
Oct 21 2011
An apartheid-era foreign affairs official has been implicated in the fraud trial of two Germans with close ties to the country's ministry of defence.
Oct 21 2011
The release of the Donen report into the Oil for Food scandal may well reopen a Pandora's box of allegations about kickbacks and diplomatic favours traded for oil from Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
Oct 21 2011
The Zambian fugitive behind a dubious circumcision project in KZN has friends in high places in SA, including a president, a king and an ex-spy boss.
Oct 21 2011
The Hawks' crackdown on the police's crime intelligence division may have as much to do with political power struggles as alleged fraud.
Oct 21 2011
A company of which the Free State leader was once a director has scored millions in leases.
Oct 21 2011
Promotion of Access to Information (Paia) application unlocks Richards Bay riddle.
Oct 14 2011
Commission is embarking on a campaign to elicit debate and is researching possible regulation.
Oct 14 2011
MEDIA FREEDOM: ANC-driven public participation process on the Secrecy Bill could be a move to sideline Parliament.
Oct 14 2011
Two rugby clubs face expulsion from their league after funds to upgrade fields fail to materialise.
Oct 14 2011
Prior to the R1.7-billion police headquarters leasing scandal, developer Roux Shabangu was a major beneficiary of "irregular" Land Bank loans.
Oct 14 2011
South Africa's intelligence agencies are routinely accessing citizens' private SMS, phone and email conversations ... illegally.
Oct 07 2011
Senior crime intelligence officer Joey Mabasa, who has been linked to Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir, has been sacked with immediate effect.
Oct 07 2011
A former employee of the Free State premier has landed government contracts worth millions.
Oct 07 2011
South Africa has handed an offshore petroleum exploration right to a company reportedly tied to the military junta of Burma.
Oct 07 2011
Five international bidders are sniffing around SA's biggest ever tender: an estimated R1-trillion contract to build six new nuclear reactors by 2030.
Sep 30 2011
Accused of fraudulent payouts, the unit is leaving bona fide freedom fighters mired in bureaucracy.
Sep 30 2011
Legal battle for the world's biggest opencast iron ore mine intensifies with new claims of forgery.
Sep 30 2011
But the digital age may confront the old ways of hiding behind wealth and patronage.
Sep 30 2011
Another death this week has the hallmarks of an organised hit and involves familiar characters.
Sep 23 2011
COMMENT: Parliamentary indaba an attempt to usher in a media appeals tribunal through the side door
Sep 23 2011
A former member of the SA Secret Service and his associate reveal their role in conspiracy.
Sep 23 2011
Pray, and keep praying -- was that the secret of the chief justice's success?
Sep 23 2011
Speculation has gone into overdrive over the murder of attorney Iaan Jordaan on Tuesday, after sources said they were convinced it was a hit.
Sep 23 2011
Buoyed by positive crime stats, the police chief has come back fighting, sources claim.
Sep 23 2011
Siyabonga Cwele's financial interests show possible conflicts and controversial business partners.
Sep 16 2011
Despite their campaign against Mswati's despotic rule, Cosatu affiliates have been found to be involved in business deals with the Swazi king.
Sep 16 2011
Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane's refusal to scan her bag at an airport costs taxpayers R235 000 plus.
Sep 16 2011
The most senior leaders in SA's state security apparatus are fighting to keep their jobs
Sep 16 2011
President Jacob Zuma announces an inquiry in to the arms deal -- but will it just be a "sweetheart commission"?
Sep 16 2011
Julius Malema allegedly pressured staff at Limpopo's department of health to pay out on multimillion-rand contracts.
Sep 16 2011
Rage, rage against the dimming
of society's right to know
Sep 09 2011
Activists and others are joining forces at a conference which aims to yield a declaration on access to information.
Sep 09 2011
Subcontractors at the Gupta family's Shiva Uranium mine are crying foul over the company's alleged failure to pay for services provided.
Sep 09 2011
A key beneficiary of the SA loan is rumoured to be co-owned by Swazi royal interests
Sep 06 2011
The R117m Kei Rail project, meant to create jobs, provide affordable transport and boost the E Cape economy, is running again, but not at full steam.
Sep 02 2011
If passed, the Secrecy Bill will help to mask the corrupt activities of those in government. The fight to stop the Bill just got harder.
Sep 02 2011
Despite a damning probe, neither the fraudsters nor officials who abetted them have been charged.
Sep 02 2011
Trustees have accused FSB chief Dube Tshidi and attorney Tony Mostert of 'despicable' behaviour.
Aug 26 2011
Yolanda Botha has been given maximum penalty for misleading ethics committee on value of loan.
Aug 26 2011
Three high-profile figures in the Northern Cape provincial legislature face disciplinary action.
Aug 26 2011
This week sees the publication of Fiona Forde’s An Inconvenient Youth: Julius Malema and the 'New' ANC. Read an extract here.
Aug 26 2011
Murdered businessman's estate includes a company and weapons cache eyed by Krejcir
Aug 25 2011
In a rare act of censure, Parliament's ethics committee has disciplined a top ANC MP who failed to disclose her interests and lied about their value.
Aug 23 2011
Desktop computers and laptops have been removed from the company that is part-owned by ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema.
Aug 19 2011
But council reiterates the importance of self-regulation to uphold standards.
Aug 19 2011
Radovan Krejcir is said to be interested in guns unearthed on former property of Cyril Beeka.
Aug 19 2011
The advocate who introduced the two men says the chief justice nomination should be declined.
Aug 19 2011
Deeds show a few connected politicians benefited from the sale of prestigious municipal property.
Aug 19 2011
Insiders and contractors confirm that the practice of negotiating for kickbacks is rife -- and thriving -- at On-Point Engineers
Aug 16 2011
Mining giant Kumba are arguing in court that Imperial Crown Trading submitted a "fraudulent" prospecting right to the department of mineral resources.
Aug 12 2011
The apprehension of Enock Matshaba has been hailed as a breakthrough in the Phakoe case.
Aug 12 2011
Bank blames Botha for trying to escape liability
Aug 12 2011
One of the key witnesses is a known information peddler with links to intelligence agencies.
Aug 12 2011
Ferrostaal probe shows submarine deal consortium paid more than $40-million to SA agents whose chief attraction was their influence on politicians.
Aug 12 2011
Ceppwawu leaders -- and their lawyers -- at one another's throats.
Aug 05 2011
How the ANC Youth League leader turns political power into personal gain.
Aug 05 2011
MEDIA FREEDOM: The ANC's backtracking on essential concessions in the Bill is galvanising activists like never before.
Aug 05 2011
Yolanda Botha feels the heat from parliament's ethics watchdog.
Aug 05 2011
President Jacob Zuma and the ANC appear to be conflicted as complex relationships between President Zuma and King Mswati’s clique emerge.
Aug 05 2011
Protector asked to intervene in dispute between Hofmeyr and senior unit executive.
Aug 05 2011
Julius Malema has a stake in a R4.6-billion road management deal, and is handing out state tenders to friends through the Ratanang Family Trust.
Aug 04 2011
President Mutharika faces further protests and a loss of desperately needed aid if he fails to address Malawi's problems, civil groups and the US say.
Jul 29 2011
Collusion among multinational cartels blamed for foreign exchange shortages.
Jul 29 2011
Investment portfolio of more than R1-billion has been roadblocked.
Jul 29 2011
Claims made against Investec could be behind justice minister’s push for inquiry into spying.
Jul 29 2011
A key Gupta lieutenant and the deputy president's girlfriend are drawn into the fray.
Jul 29 2011
President Jacob Zuma's disclosures raise more questions than they answer.
Jul 25 2011
Julius Malema's grandmother, Sarah Malema, is also a trustee of the Ratanang Family Trust that came to light over the weekend.
Jul 25 2011
Malawi journalists were beaten by police in churches and hospitals in Lilongwe, and were blamed for the demonstrations that swept the country last week.
Jul 22 2011
Police investigation into killing of ‘Mr Cocaine’ reveals underworld connection.
Jul 21 2011
Hundreds of tonnes of hazardous medical waste has built up in a backlog blamed on the shortage of licensed treatment facilities in Gauteng.
Jul 15 2011
Nothando Dube, the 12th wife of King Mswati III, says she is isolated and beaten by guards.
Jul 15 2011
A twist in the Krejcir case sees fingers pointed at a security consultant working with the Hawks.
Jul 15 2011
Hofmeyr probe appears to be part of a broader attack on the nation’s corruption busters.
Jul 15 2011
Thuli Madonsela has thrown down the gauntlet to President Jacob Zuma, demanding that he confront her awkward findings.
Jul 14 2011
Fraud-accused Radovan Krejcir failed to get his bail guarantee halved in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on Thursday.
Jul 08 2011
Two companies believe they won the same contract to provide water in the Northern Cape, leaving thirsty communities dry.
Jul 08 2011
Court documents allege the bank relied on forged signatures to sue client for R103-million.
Jul 08 2011
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela herself might be a pawn in a wider political battle.
Jul 01 2011
Media freedom in South Africa has decreased markedly since 2008, a watchdog says.
Jul 01 2011
Three Botswana presidents all appear to have turned political power into personal advantage.
Jul 01 2011
An intelligence report reveals that access to jobs and tenders was at the heart of political unrest.
Jun 30 2011
VIDEO: Embattled Public Protector Thuli Madonsela is probing dodgy state leasing scams. But how do the scams work?
Jun 24 2011
An online resource to spread knowledge about South Africa's arms deal scandal.
Jun 24 2011
What Jimmy Manyi's ultimate fantasy could look like
Jun 24 2011
Sanef is setting up an "eminent persons' panel" to investigate ways to strengthen and reform the print media's self-regulation system.
Jun 24 2011
Police Commissioner Bheki Cele's "fingerprints" can now be found on two inflated police lease deals, the Public Protector says in her leaked report.
Jun 24 2011
Documents reveal the cunning origin of the British arms company’s system used to channel alleged kickbacks to South African arms deal 'advisers'.
Jun 24 2011
An MP accused of misrepresenting her gifts and benefits to Parliament will have to wait a while longer for her case to be heard.
Jun 17 2011
Special Investigation Unit considers probing roll-out of costly local government software.
Jun 17 2011
Appointment of board chair with ties to defence industry does not concern department.
Jun 17 2011
After violent protests, frustrated Botswana unions call off their strike to plan a way forward.
Jun 17 2011
A three-pronged attack by the government comes as self-scrutiny increases.
Jun 17 2011
A R24-million commission was hidden from Saab by its partner, BAE Systems.
Jun 10 2011
Top cop Major General Joey Mabasa is under investigation for conspiring to kill strip king Lolly Jackson.
Jun 10 2011
Police question the North West figures accused of corruption by assassinated Moss Phakoe again.
Jun 10 2011
Despite a stinging judicial rebuke about his work when Public Protector, Lawrence Mushwana says he will not resign as Human Rights Commission chair.
Jun 10 2011
The planned media appeals tribunal is once again high on the ruling party's agenda .
Jun 10 2011
But Botswana Finance Minister Kenneth Matambo is refusing to resign.
Jun 09 2011
Parliament is considering the legal merits of a request to give the public access to a hearing into alleged ethics violations by a senior ANC MP.
Jun 06 2011
The department of public works’ procurement division is the latest weak spot in the fight against tender corruption.
Jun 03 2011
COMMENT: The organisation that liberated us from
apartheid now wishes to oppress us.
Jun 03 2011
At the heart of it is the same business person responsible for the other inflated leases.
Jun 03 2011
A 'poorly drafted' six-page document informed the decision to end the arms deal investigation.
Jun 03 2011
Allegations of bribery, tender-rigging and health violations follow Northern Cape bid to clean up.
May 27 2011
A 2009 report shows collisions climbed sharply, compelling more stringent safety standards.
May 27 2011
The province's health department is accused of crooked medical waste contract practices.
May 27 2011
Court case could lead to collapse of multibillion-rand ICT and BEE deals.
May 27 2011
Landing lucrative government leases is the hottest new tenderpreneur scam.
May 20 2011
Sticking points prevent committee from pushing legislation through in its current state
May 20 2011
Judgment reserved in Jacob Zuma's last attempt to conceal judges’ assessment of 2002 election
May 20 2011
ANALYSIS: Botswana's reputation as a shining example in Africa hangs in the balance.
May 13 2011
Fresh allegations of tender corruption in the unenclosed toilets saga have been levelled against Moqhaka Municipality officials in the Free State.
May 13 2011
A Rustenburg municipal councillor was killed within days of reporting a dodgy contract.
May 13 2011
Mineral Resources official in "close personal relationship" with controversial mine bids businessman.
May 13 2011
President Ian Khama's administration has been accused of censoring labour leaders in Botswana's ongoing public sector strike.
May 11 2011
A company co-controlled by the ANC mayor of a Free State municipality won the tender to build the toilets at the centre of a new political row.
May 11 2011
Awards littered the Mail & Guardian offices in Rosebank, Johannesburg after a good haul at the annual Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Awards.
May 06 2011
In a surprise move this week Cricket South Africa president Mtutuzeli Nyoka won more than his reinstatement.
May 06 2011
More decisions by public works department officials come under scrutiny.
May 06 2011
Concourt postpones arms deal activist Terry Crawford-Browne's bid to force President Jacob Zuma to appoint a commission of inquiry into the arms deal.
Apr 29 2011
Almost 100 000 public servants have been on strike in Botswana since Monday last week, in an unprecedented display of popular militancy.
Apr 29 2011
The BCCSA has dismissed an application by the SABC to appeal against an order that it correct an unfair report on an M&G journalist.
Apr 29 2011
Anglo American plc has offered medical treatment to 14 former miners who have brought a test case against its South African subsidiary.
Apr 29 2011
Netcare was warned by a top specialist to stop Israeli "tourist transplants" but the company dismissed his advice and hid behind a legal façade.
Apr 21 2011
Shareholders in one of the companies looted by slain mining magnate Brett Kebble have launched a multimillion-rand lawsuit against Investec Bank.
Apr 21 2011
Lieutenant-General Richard Mdluli, and his co-accused, were granted bail of R20 000 by the Boksburg Magistrate's court.
Apr 21 2011
Union insists there is something rotten about Pikitup's tender adjudication processes.
Apr 15 2011
Cricket SA president Mtutuzeli Nyoka has mounted a telling High Court assault on the CSA’s decision to back its chief executive, Gerald Majola.
Apr 15 2011
Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir is gathering material for his pending application to be granted asylum as a "political refugee".
Apr 15 2011
Police investigation of claims that Mabasa stopped case 'is at advanced stage'.
Apr 08 2011
The very high levels of violence in jails has been highlighted by the Judicial Inspectorate of Prisons.
Apr 08 2011
Israel Mdlalose was an internal Umkhonto weSizwe operative working under cover in Kagiso township. Now he is unemployed and haunted by memories.
Apr 08 2011
Allegations that crime intelligence boss Lieutenant-General Richard Mdluli was involved in a 1999 murder appear to have set off a propaganda war.
Apr 08 2011
Dossier claims the involvement of disloyal 'Mbeki men' in investigating Mdluli.
Apr 08 2011
Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of the head of communications of Mpumalanga's department of sports, culture and recreation.
Apr 08 2011
There are indications that he is accused of stifling more than the Ramogibe probe
Apr 08 2011
What do you do when you have less than three months before the next "final" deadline for the controversial Protection of Information Bill?
Apr 01 2011
Video surveillance footage shot in the new Kimberley prison appears to show prison security personnel assaulting prisoners.
Apr 01 2011
Construction firm MKB has gained the upper hand in a conflict over a property in Hyde Park.
Apr 01 2011
The fall-out from February's violent service delivery protests in Ermelo, Mpumalanga, continues.
Apr 01 2011
Wanted Cuban fugitive and six others held after massive drug bust at Nqura harbour in the Eastern Cape.
Apr 01 2011
The Czech fugitive is a connoisseur of weak states. His choice of SA as a refuge is symptomatic of the country’s deepening moral malaise.
Apr 01 2011
The ANC's Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans' Association may have benefited as an organisation from a multimillion-rand Gupta family mining deal.
Mar 25 2011
The Right2Know campaign is compiling a list of South Africa's top 10 secrets.
Mar 25 2011
Despite being cleared, bigwigs at the trade department's regulator continue to feel the heat.
Mar 25 2011
Former SIU deputy Faiek Davids is suing for unfair dismissal based on the recordings.
Mar 25 2011
Several of Radovan Krejcir's associates have
died violent deaths in the past 15 months.
Mar 25 2011
Krejcir's network could extend to police and Balkan drug smugglers.
Mar 23 2011
The BCCSA has upheld the M&G's complaint against the SABC regarding its broadcast of Robert Gumede's claims of corruption against Sam Sole.
Mar 18 2011
The "development agenda" and "national security" have been invoked to curb press freedom in all post-colonial African countries.
Mar 18 2011
The New Age newspaper is full of surprises, as I discovered during a visit to the paper this week.
Mar 18 2011
University’s suburban development plans for Frankenwald betray its deed terms, activists say
Mar 18 2011
Gauteng education department paid bill for legal services that included stress management fees.
Mar 18 2011
Affidavit detailing fraud may finally bring an end to Radovan Krejcir's run-around with the law.
Mar 18 2011
Hawks 'insufficiently insulated from
political interference', says Concourt
Mar 18 2011
President’s bride-to-be is welcomed into the fold, with her luxury house also coming under scrutiny.
Mar 11 2011
The Special Investigating Unit's probe into abuses at the department of public works ranges far more widely than the police leasing scandal.
Mar 11 2011
Although the IT company will conclude the billion-rand department of home affairs project, its role will be relatively small.
Mar 11 2011
Legacy Hotel Holdings chief executive Bart Dorrestein has pledged that his Libyan minority shareholders will not pay any dividends back to Libya
Mar 11 2011
Property tycoon Roux Shabangu has hit the jackpot with his controversial deal to lease a Pretoria building to the police.
Mar 04 2011
Staff 'fleece' Metrorail in online scam; meanwhile, in the Eastern Cape, government cannot get its trains back on track.
Mar 04 2011
Eighteen ex-goldminers are taking on Anglo over a lung disease caused by exposure to silica dust. It's a case that could cost the industry billions.
Mar 04 2011
The Libyan government's investment arm co-owns a prime slice of Sandton -- Africa’s most expensive real estate -- and a chunk of the V&A Waterfront.
Mar 04 2011
The process surrounding top parastatal jobs fails scrutiny. We unpack the Transnet appointments.
Mar 04 2011
Amid denial of knowledge of any raid on the protector's office Madonsela is called to 'engage' with Cabinet.
Mar 04 2011
Crackdown follows weeks of protests over alleged poor pay and harassment.
Feb 25 2011
President Jacob Zuma is once again pursuing his lawsuit against cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro for the "rape of justice" cartoon published two years ago.
Feb 25 2011
Three more African National Congress politicians received benefits from the group that leases property to the government.
Feb 25 2011
Government schools spend thousands photocopying test papers meant to be supplied by the department of education.
Feb 25 2011
‘Leaked’ conversation results in showdown between provincial police chief and mayor.
Feb 25 2011
Cape Town officials accused of downplaying a ‘growing’ crisis in poor areas.
Feb 25 2011
Duduzane Zuma and the Guptas are at it again -- they will benefit from a proposed Indian steel investment bolstered by government intervention.
Feb 18 2011
Small NGO takes on giant multinational over its attempts to control SA seed market
Feb 18 2011
Former employee hands over six files of documents to M&G and the police
Feb 18 2011
A disciplinary inquiry report has revealed the extent of the mismanagement under the leadership of Leonard Chuene
Feb 17 2011
The UN's Frank LaRue said in Johannesburg this week that there can be no democracy without the internet as well as no development.
Feb 11 2011
Parliamentary committee chairperson Yolanda Botha apparently received kickbacks from a company to which she assigned tenders worth more than R50m.
Feb 11 2011
The family of the slain chief whip of Mpumalanga's Ehlanzeni district municipality, Johan Ndlovu, suspects that his murder was politically linked.
Feb 11 2011
Public services minister brushes off Manyi's ‘dismissal’ and knows nothing about his business roles
Feb 11 2011
Group opposed to ‘secrecy’ Bill becomes a formally constituted organisation
Feb 04 2011
The seeds of the crisis in Jo'burg's billing system were sown five years ago when a R208m tender was awarded to an inexperienced company.
Feb 04 2011
Financially risky for CSA, it raises more questions about Majola’s subsequent bonus from the league
Feb 04 2011
An eleventh-hour affidavit submitted to the Refugee Appeal Board could deal a blow to Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir’s bid to stay in SA.
Jan 28 2011
Cricket South Africa approved a bonus of over R1m to chief executive Gerald Majola, while a committee was largely in the dark about two other bonuses.
Jan 28 2011
Contracts worth R250-million went to a company linked to the DG's mother-in-law to be, but all parties deny that there is a conflict of interest.
Jan 21 2011
Former Israeli foreign minister ‘postpones’ visit
Jan 21 2011
Businessman Gaston Savoi, who is accused of bribing government officials for tender awards worth more than R86m, donated about R3,6m to the ANC.
Jan 21 2011
Once inside, torture and violence are the norm, and there is little redress.
Jan 14 2011
Mail & Guardian photographer Oupa Nkosi is facing trial for "assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm"
Jan 14 2011
The DA has formally applied to the Constitutional Court to hear the party's bid to overturn Zuma's appointment of Menzi Simelane as NDPP.
Jan 14 2011
President Jacob Zuma has appointed a deputy to prosecutions boss Menzi Simelane who was previously facing charges of dishonesty.
Jan 07 2011
An SA-based Taiwanese man, Jen-Chih "Robert" Huang, has emerged as the middleman in deals between Chinese companies and President Jacob Zuma's nephew.
Dec 23 2010
Stefaans Brümmer and Ilham Rawoot report on the cronies who were discovered this year with their hands in the public cookie jar.
Dec 17 2010
CEO of embattled mining company Aurora Empowerment Systems, allegedly tried to pay a union representative R5-million for unpaid workers' salaries.
Dec 10 2010
Only mass sackings could turn Matjhabeng around, a forensic audit implies.
Dec 10 2010
WikiLeaks has released a secret diplomatic United States embassy cable listing two SA companies seen as critical to American interests.
Dec 10 2010
Ernie Blom calls the alleged boasting of his involvement in the illegal Chiadzwa diamonds trade 'an absolute lie'.
Dec 03 2010
Arms-deal middleman Fana Hlongwane financed a R4-million home for General Siphiwe Nyanda when Nyanda prepared to step down as defence force chief.
Dec 03 2010
Accused caught up in interdepartmental conflicts was denied his legal rights
Dec 03 2010
As director general of the justice department, Menzi Simelane repeatedly hobbled the arms-deal probe.
Nov 29 2010
Front company channelled millions of dollars in commissions from Nigerian contract.
Nov 26 2010
Drug dealer Glenn Agliotti was a confident man on Friday morning, as he laughed and joked at a press conference in Johannesburg.
Nov 26 2010
The debacle over the award of lapsed mining rights in the Sishen iron ore mine could be used by government to force Amsa to cut in steel prices.
Nov 26 2010
The Kebble murder case fell victim to zeal in the related Selebi case, leading to leniency for accused.
Nov 26 2010
Nov 19 2010
Correspondence between Pamodzi Gold and Aurora Empowerment Systems reveals bitter divisions among those representing different interests.
Nov 12 2010
John Block, the ANC Northern Cape leader accused of tender fraud, is being defended by a man who has a serious corruption charge hanging over his head
Nov 12 2010
Killer’s plea bargain casts a spotlight on Czech fugitive and his associates.
Nov 05 2010
When Robert Gumede tendered to produce phonecards for Telkom in 2002, he had just come out of a bad break-up with his business partner.
Nov 05 2010
Robert Gumede's ex-wife has told the M&G how she transferred R100 000 to the account of a company belonging to a Telkom executive's wife.
Nov 04 2010
Businessman Robert Gumede launched a smear campaign against the M&G and amaBhungane following questions posed to him by the paper's investigative team
Nov 01 2010
In his chapter in a new book, Paying for Politics, Sam Sole traces the link between the ANC's cadre deployment policy, BEE and its business interests.
Oct 29 2010
Government plans to centralise media buying reveal an attempt to channel advertising to "patriotic" media, insiders say.
Oct 29 2010
The state plans to convict 100 corrupt people who have each stolen more than R5-million through tender fraud over the next three-and-a-half years.
Oct 22 2010
If a new Bill aimed at preventing stalking is passed, journalists' phone calls and visits could constitute stalking and harassment.
Oct 22 2010
A showdown over the launch date and a lack of resources appear to have been what prompted the five most senior editors at the New Age to resign.
Oct 22 2010
The Bakubung community is wealthy on paper, but a leadership dispute is keeping it in poverty
Oct 22 2010
The National Prosecuting Authority maintained a stony silence this week on the Hawks' canning of the arms deal probe.
Oct 15 2010
The judge hearing former police chief Jackie Selebi's corruption case was placed under 24-hour police protection after receiving death threats.
Oct 15 2010
The arms deal investigation is dead. After a decade of investigators' blood, sweat and tears, Hawks boss Anwa Dramat has effectively buried the probe.
Oct 15 2010
Paralysed mining company Aurora Empowerment Systems has cheated collapse once again after a year of surviving on little more than its political clout.
Oct 08 2010
The investigation into the death of German businessman Uwe Gemballa is focusing on a circle of people around Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir.
Oct 08 2010
Aurora Empowerment Systems is violating its agreement with liquidators by selling off assets from the liquidated Pamodzi mines.
Oct 08 2010
Correctional services fighting to keep disputed catering contract.
Oct 01 2010
The businessman who stands to make a fortune from controversial leasing deals with the police is himself the target of a police investigation.
Oct 01 2010
Past drug claims dog businessman behind contentious circumcision device
Sep 24 2010
A company co-owned by a close aide to PW Botha helped Iran evade American sanctions by sneaking a James Bond-style speedboat through South Africa.
Sep 24 2010
While the struggling company faces liquidation, its troubled mines may yet be bailed out
Sep 17 2010
On July 23 the M&G published a story alleging that Lillian Naicker, of the company Waste Rite, had been given access to details of a tender.
Sep 17 2010
Justice Minister Jeff Radebe placed very little information before Zuma when the president appointed Menzi Simelane as head of the NPA.
Sep 17 2010
The squeeze on Glenn Agliotti -- key witness against Jackie Selebi and lone defendant in the Brett Kebble murder trial -- is far from over.
Sep 10 2010
The battle to get Czech fugitive and alleged crime boss Radovan Krejcir out of South Africa is heating up.
Sep 10 2010
Former police chief Jackie Selebi is pinning his hopes of staying out of jail on a criminal probe into Glenn Agliotti's tax affairs.
Sep 10 2010
Police chief defends his tightening grip on the purse strings, saying he smelled a rat in the awarding of contracts.
Sep 07 2010
The National Prosecuting Authority withdrew all charges against Sunday Times investigative journalist Mzilikazi wa Afrika on Tuesday morning.
Sep 06 2010
Former police chief Jackie Selebi was granted leave to appeal only one aspect of his conviction by the South Gauteng High Court on Monday morning.
Aug 27 2010
In 2007 the Northern Cape's Richtersveld community won its celebrated case to secure reparations for the diamond fields it lost in colonial times.
Aug 27 2010
The corruption probe centring on Uruguyan businessman Gaston Savoi and his Intaka health group is likely to have political fallout.
Aug 27 2010
Businessmen linked to Limpopo Premier Cassel Mathale and Julius Malema have emerged as beneficiaries of the medical waste management industry.
Aug 20 2010
Does President Jacob Zuma deserve the praise heaped on him for "cracking down" on corruption last week?
Aug 20 2010
The Gupta family, friends of President Jacob Zuma, were key to the agreement to sell prospecting rights at Sishen to steel conglomerate ArcelorMittal.
Aug 17 2010
Corrupt former police national commissioner Jackie Selebi has filed for leave to appeal against his conviction and sentence.
Aug 17 2010
Mining magnate Brett Kebble needed to die in a way that would look like a hit so that his family could claim money from insurance, a court has heard.
Aug 16 2010
The state has implied that Glenn Agliotti's defence team may have manipulated his cellphone records.
Aug 16 2010
In a blow to the state's case, murder accused Glenn Agliotti's damning statement made in his bail application has not been admitted as evidence.
Aug 13 2010
President's son and deputy president's girlfriend hit the jackpot in ArcelorMittal empowerment deal.
Aug 13 2010
Tycoon’s butler relates how his boss acted out of character and was depressed before his death
Aug 13 2010
Uncertainty shrouds the cause of death of four men -- allegedly illegal miners -- whose bodies were found on Thursday in an underground in a mine.
Aug 13 2010
Sivi Gounden, who shot to prominence in the Lonmin row that erupted last week, is considered both technically competent and politically connected.
Aug 11 2010
On Wednesday, Brett Kebble's housekeeper, Andrew Minnaar, gave a court some insight into Kebble's state of mind in the days before his death.
Aug 10 2010
The defence counsel for murder accused Glenn Agliotti on Tuesday took the state's witness on cellphone records to task.
Aug 06 2010
Mpho Pule was a grandmother in her fifties when she was told that Nelson Mandela was her father. She spent the next 12 years trying to meet him.
Aug 06 2010
If Clinton Nassif is all the state has to nail Glenn Agliotti for the murder of mining magnate Brett Kebble, they’re in trouble.
Aug 05 2010
Drug dealer Glenn Agliotti's defence counsel, Laurance Hodes, wants the murder charges against his client withdrawn.
Aug 05 2010
Judge Frans Kgomo relaxed the bail conditions of Glenn Agliotti in the South Gauteng High Court on Thursday morning.
Aug 04 2010
Clinton Nassif had lied about being asleep when mining magnate Brett Kebble was killed, defence counsel Laurance Hodes said on Wednesday.
Aug 03 2010
Former Kebble security boss Clinton Nassif has now sat through two-and-a-half days of cross-examination.
Aug 03 2010
Former police chief Jackie Selebi has been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment for corruption. Judge Meyer Joffe called Selebi an embarrassment to SA.
Aug 03 2010
Clinton Nassif's attorney harassed Brett Kebble's former business partner, John Stratton, in Australia to discuss a plea bargain, a court has heard.
Aug 02 2010
The prosecutor in Jackie Selebi's corruption trial has asked the court to jail the former top cop for more than 15 years.
Aug 02 2010
Former Kebble security boss Clinton Nassif was accused of lying in the South Gauteng High Court on Monday morning.
Jul 30 2010
Circumstantial evidence links Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale to two opaque companies fronted by President Jacob Zuma's nephew.
Jul 30 2010
Brett Kebble's former strongman described in vivid detail this week the violence and deceit that lay beneath the surface of Kebble's opulent life.
Jul 29 2010
"I have been humbled by this experience of the last five years," former security chief for the Kebbles, Clinton Nassif, told the court on Thursday.
Jul 28 2010
All three men involved in the murder of Brett Kebble have now testified, and have admitted that Glenn Agliotti was not directly responsible.
Jul 28 2010
Glenn Agliotti's defence counsel Laurance Hodes spent Wednesday afternoon tearing into the credibility of state witness Alexis Christopher.
Jul 27 2010
The South Gauteng High Court heard on Tuesday how security boss Clinton Nassif hired "heavies" to intimidate and shoot people.
Jul 27 2010
Bouncer Nigel McGurk told the court in detail on Tuesday about the plans to shoot former Allan Gray chief investment officer Stephen Mildenhall.
Jul 26 2010
An overheating car and a jammed gun led to the "assisted suicide" of mining magnate Brett Kebble being postponed twice.
Jul 26 2010
Glenn Agliotti, the man charged with murdering mining boss Brett Kebble in September 2005, pleaded not guilty to four charges on Monday morning.
Jul 23 2010
SAA paid out bonuses of R60,7-million to 153 managers over three years -- at an average of almost R400 000 per employee.
Jul 23 2010
A report has found that law enforcement agencies have been slack about fighting corruption since the Scorpions were shut down.
Jul 23 2010
Questions have arisen about Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane's response to an incident involving her son, a stolen car and a fire-damaged house.
Jul 23 2010
The City of Jo'burg awarded a R500-million tender to a consortium that allegedly saw the tender documents six months before the tender was advertised.
Jul 16 2010
President Jacob Zuma met the boss of a South Korean shipping multinational before the Korean signed a major deal with Zuma's nephew on Monday.
Jul 16 2010
There was something very odd about Jackie Selebi's choice of policeman to testify about his abilities and dedication as police chief this week.
Jul 16 2010
An exodus of senior managers from the communications department has followed Mamodupi Mohlala's appointment as director general 10 months ago.
Jul 16 2010
An acting director general was appointed for two days this week in the communications department after a mysterious fallout.
Jul 16 2010
While Siphiwe Nyanda was living a five-star life at Cape Town's top hotels, his deputy minister and director general were following his example.
Jul 16 2010
It's an elephant dressed up as a sheep, the M&G told Parliament when the draconian Protection of Information Bill was introduced.
Jul 14 2010
Former police chief Jackie Selebi will have to wait until the first week of August to know if he will spend the next 15 years behind bars.
Jul 14 2010
Jackie Selebi was a "hands-on" police boss who was well respected by his senior colleagues, the South Gauteng High Court heard on Wednesday.
Jul 14 2010
State prosecutor Gerrie Nel told the South Gauteng High Court on Wednesday the state would apply to confiscate the former police chief's assets.
Jul 09 2010
Julius Malema may have shot himself in the foot by telling the taxman he does not benefit financially from business dealings but receives "donations".
Jul 09 2010
Prosecutions boss has been asked to explain his evidence against Vusi Pikoli before the Ginwala Inquiry to the Johannesburg Bar
Jul 09 2010
The controversy surrounding a land deal on the banks of Hartbeespoort Dam escalated this week.
Jul 09 2010
Jo'burg's waste management company, Pikitup, is bleeding millions in a contract with a company booted out of a separate R28-million municipal tender.
Jul 08 2010
Since Jacob Zuma became ANC president, and then president of South Africa, his family’s fortunes have taken a turn for the better -- literally.
Jul 08 2010
Since he entered South Africa on a false passport, Czech fugitive and alleged crime boss Radovan Krejcir has caused nothing but trouble.
Jul 02 2010
Company has a share in controversial property, contractors told.
Jul 02 2010
Some in Cape Town needed only the exit of Bafana Bafana from the tournament last week Tuesday to begin the xenophobic hatred.
Jul 02 2010
Jackie Selebi, the former head of the South African Police Service, was convicted on one count of corruption by Judge Meyer Joffe on Friday.
Jul 02 2010
Judge Meyer Joffe lashed out at Jackie Selebi's unreliable conduct as a witness on Friday, saying his was not an example to be emulated.
Jul 02 2010
Two people are especially interested in the Brett Kebble murder trial, due to start on July 26: Brett's father, Roger, and Piet Byleveld.
Jul 02 2010
On May 26 2006 the M&G published its first exposé of the links between Jackie Selebi and a man called Glenn Agliotti.
Jul 02 2010
As Judge Meyer Joffe summed up the evidence against Jackie Selebi on Thursday, government agencies were lurking in the wings.
Jul 01 2010
Judge in the Selebi trial rules that a DVD in which Glenn Agliotti meets former crime intelligence boss Mulangi Mphego be admitted as evidence.
Jul 01 2010
On Thursday Judge Meyer Joffe started handing down judgement in the corruption trial of former top cop Jackie Selebi.
Jun 25 2010
World Cup chief organiser Danny Jordaan is not the only member of his family to benefit from the tournament.
Jun 25 2010
The electricity supplier bought 1 110 top-range World Cup tickets for its executives, but it is still in wage negotiations with its employees
Jun 25 2010
Documents have swept aside the corporate and political veil drawn over the fight for nearly a quarter of the multibillion-rand Sishen iron ore mine.
Jun 21 2010
Congolese fugitive from justice Nozi Mwamba was arrested in Johannesburg last week based on an international arrest warrant.
Jun 18 2010
Police boss denies sources’ claims that cash was taken from his Durban home and drivers were questioned.
Jun 18 2010
Police are investigating claims that sabotage by rival security companies lies behind the security guard strikes that rocked the World Cup this week.
Jun 13 2010
The senior official who blocked the importation of rare Zambian sable antelope in a deal backed by the agriculture minister, is facing demotion.
Jun 11 2010
If this story's aim was to make every humanitarians stomach turn with anger, then it deserved all the time and energy I was putting into it.
Jun 11 2010
State and defence pull no punches in their
closing arguments in the Selebi corruption case
Jun 11 2010
What is the relationship between Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir and senior crime intelligence officer Major-General Khanyisa "Joey" Mabasa?
Jun 10 2010
Closing arguments in former top cop Jackie Selebi's corruption trial have come to an end, six months after the trial began.
Jun 08 2010
Answers to who cashed in on the World Cup millions would finally be forthcoming, after the M&G court win to access LOC tender documents.
Jun 08 2010
"The road to the investigation of the accused started on lies deliberately spread by someone," Jackie Selebi's defence counsel said on Tuesday.
Jun 07 2010
The police intercepted an email that former police chief Jackie Selebi showed to convicted drug dealer Glen Agliotti, a court heard on Monday.
Jun 04 2010
A new video recording illuminates the relationship between Brett Kebble and some of former police chief Jackie Selebi's lieutenants.
Jun 03 2010
President Jacob Zuma's second wife, Nompumelelo Ntuli, was fined a goat in April as punishment for bad behaviour.
May 28 2010
In the last of a three-part series on South Africa’s striptease subculture, we look at the Survivor winner’s Lollipop Lounge.
May 28 2010
Agriculture Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson flexed her muscles to push for the import of antelope for a company linked to an aide's boyfriend.
May 28 2010
Questions have been raised about SABC chairperson Ben Ngubane's role in lobbying for the adoption of Japanese digital broadcasting technology.
May 28 2010
New twist in mining saga as questionable link to diamond project emerges.
May 24 2010
The LOC of the 2010 Fifa World Cup is "too busy organising the World Cup" to provide the M&G with copies of tender documents.
May 21 2010
Embattled mining company Aurora Empowerment Systems this week booted out their controversial advisers and consultants, the Bhana family.
May 21 2010
Former crime intelligence boss Mulangi Mphego is key to top-secret leaks that that scuttled President Jacob Zuma's corruption trial.
May 21 2010
Lazarus Zim, chair of Kumba Iron Ore, is tied to the main shareholder of the BEE company that snaffled rights worth billions from under Kumba's nose.
May 21 2010
Tensions are running high in Cape Town over the city’s apparent relocation of poor and homeless people to Blikkiesdorp on the Cape Flats.
May 14 2010
Former prosecutions boss Vusi Pikoli has no desire to "rule from the grave", but is concerned about developments at the NPA.
May 14 2010
The net tightens around embattled empowerment company Aurora as it struggles to hold on to the liquidated Pamodzi Gold mines in Springs and Orkney.
May 14 2010
Strip-club owner and Lolly Jackson’s arch-rival Andrew Phillips condemned Jackson as a “thug”, but his own business requires closer scrutiny.
May 14 2010
President Jacob Zuma's son, Duduzane, has emerged as one of the buyers of a uranium mining company, amid claims that Zuma intervened in the project.
May 14 2010
In a major public rebuke, President Jacob Zuma has told his prosecutions boss, Menzi Simelane, to stop his controversial restructuring of the NPA.
May 10 2010
The criminal case against former police crime intelligence head Mulangi Mphego has been struck off the roll.
May 07 2010
Simelane removes top prosecutor from key probes, citing the ‘interests of justice’.
May 07 2010
Jackie Selebi's defence team closed its case in the South Gauteng High Court on Friday morning.
Closing argument will now commence on June 7.
May 07 2010
The last hours of Lolly Jackson's life involved a booze-fuelled meeting with his alleged killer, George Smith, which ended in bullets and tears.
May 07 2010
Teazers kingpin Lolly Jackson built an empire on the back of the strip-club industry and the way he went about it was as unethical as they come.
May 07 2010
Is it a coincidence that, after two high-profile murders, the individuals involved phoned police commissioners to tell them about it?
May 07 2010
"If you write anything bad about me, I'll kill you," said Lolly Jackson, pointing at me as he placed Teazers water bottles in front of us on his desk.
May 04 2010
Gauteng head of crime intelligence, Joey Mabasa, told the M&G that George Smith called him to allegedly admit to the killing of Lolly Jackson.
May 03 2010
Jackie Selebi's former secretary Eunice Grové contradicted him at least three times during evidence in the South Gauteng High Court on Monday.
Apr 30 2010
Man linked to mining firm has been involved
in dodgy deals in other companies.
Apr 30 2010
Prosecutions boss Menzi Simelane ordered to stop "restructuring" the National Prosecuting Authority immediately by Justice Minister Jeff Radebe.
Apr 30 2010
Jackie Selebi has been accused of laundering money, using foreign currency when he travelled abroad as South Africa's national police commissioner.
Apr 30 2010
Apr 30 2010
Despite assurances by Aurora Empowerment Systems that it has secured a new funder, it has emerged that the promised millions are far from a certainty.
Apr 29 2010
Sepp Blatter and Thabo Mbeki intervened to have Cape Town's Green Point Stadium built -- at R3-billion more expensive than two available alternatives.
Apr 28 2010
Former police chief Jackie Selebi was accused of taking $2 500 from drug-dealer Glenn Agliotti at OR Tambo airport in 2005.
Apr 28 2010
A document compiled by Jackie Selebi's wife has become the focal point of the former police chief's cross-examination in the South Gauteng High Court.
Apr 28 2010
Although he was the breadwinner, former police chief Jackie Selebi depended on his wife for cash, the South Gauteng High Court has heard.
Apr 23 2010
Former police chief Jackie Selebi cuts a poor figure in the witness box and plays into the prosecution's hands, writes Adriaan Basson.
Apr 23 2010
Two forensic reports under lock may explain why home affairs cancelled multibillion-rand IT contract.
Apr 23 2010
Hitachi Power Africa fudged key issues this week in a media blitz intended to extricate it from the row over ANC business front Chancellor House.
Apr 22 2010
Former top cop Jackie Selebi admitted on Thursday afternoon to consulting with a state witness after his corruption trial had already begun.
Apr 22 2010
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel on Thursday morning accused former police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi of fabricating a declassified document.
Apr 21 2010
The trial of former police boss Jackie Selebi was adjourned on Wednesday to allow him to go home and fetch an alleged secret report he declassified.
Apr 20 2010
Former police chief Jackie Selebi admitted on Tuesday that he used his position to declassify a document for drug dealer Glenn Agliotti.
Apr 20 2010
Jackie Selebi’s cellphone records may solve a mystery of an alleged series of calls between him and former spy boss Manala Manzini in January 2008.
Apr 19 2010
The state has accused former police boss Jackie Selebi of changing his evidence to distance himself from drug lord Glenn Agliotti.
Apr 16 2010
The former police commissioner also blames the M&G for his trial and denies that he received money or gifts from long-time friend Glenn Agliotti.
Apr 16 2010
The mooted Amakhosi stadium has been plagued by delays -- and the community has had enough.
Apr 16 2010
Advocate faces charges after trying to peddle influence for a R5-million fee.
Apr 16 2010
There is a question mark over where the proceeds of R120-million in gold sales have gone.
Apr 16 2010
Heavy political muscle may wield the balance of power in the R5‑billion Mittal/Kumba stand-off.
Apr 15 2010
Jackie Selebi told a court on Thursday that the NPA had planned to prosecute former president Thabo Mbeki for crimes committed during the struggle.
Apr 09 2010
Was Jackie Selebi wrong to enter a gun battle with just a Swiss army knife?
Apr 08 2010
The Catholic bishop who made the call on whether sexual abuse complaints in Johannesburg should be investigated was himself accused of being an abuser
Apr 08 2010
Joint liquidators of the troubled Pamodzi Gold mines being run by Aurora Empowerment Systems appear poised to scrap their deal with Aurora.
Apr 01 2010
An indictment of GNS -- the company linked to Siphiwe Nyanda -- has been exposed in a court application to review the findings of a Transnet hearing.
Apr 01 2010
Convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik's brother Yunis played a central role in the dismissal of two whistleblowers who exposed their employer.
Mar 26 2010
Unexplained deposits in Joe Modise's bank account add to the mounting questions about the arms deal.
Mar 26 2010
The apparent financial meltdown of a mine purchased by a company chaired by President Jacob Zuma's nephew has raised questions about the deal.
Mar 19 2010
Here are the business interests of "Zuma Incorporated" -- of President Jacob Zuma and his women, children and other close relatives.
Mar 19 2010
An investigation by the M&G suggests Jacob Zuma’s women and children are bidding for private benefit from their presidential connections.
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