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The Naicker family: cashing in on government dysfunction

The Naicker family built a multi-billion-rand empire renting water tankers and yellow plant to government. Bitter family feuds and allegations of collusion threaten to bring them…

How did a relatively unknown businessman and soccer club owner from Limpopo gain an inside track with Africa’s largest pension fund administrator and its chief executive, Dan Matjila (pictured)?

Leaked WhatsApps: How access to PIC execs may have facilitated deals

Leaked messages show how, Lawrence Mulaudzi, gained an inside track with the PIC setting his sights on becoming a billionaire with pensioners’ money.

Responding to the Sowetan, Vavi said the latest complaint was made and resolved last year. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Vavi harassment complaint went ‘nowhere’

This latest allegation relates to incidents in late August and early September 2017 in which Vavi is said to have harassed and later groped a woman

The mountain gorilla’s habitat is restricted to protected areas covering nearly 800 square kilometres in two locations — the Virunga Massif and Bwindi-Sarambwe — which stretch across the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. (AFP)

Advocacy: AmaB approaches Nugent on Sars using tax law against journalists

In 2016, Sars, Tom Moyane and Jonas Makwakwa brought defamation proceedings against two amaBhungane reporters and the Mail & Guardian

Retired judge Robert Nugent has urged reform in the Judicial Service Commission, emphasising the need to prioritise judicial independence

Advocacy: AmaB approaches Nugent on Sars using tax law against journalists

Press release.

Democratic freedom is a prize humanity can only maintain by constantly standing in unity to protect it against all odds.

Advocacy: Media welcome Constitutional Court ruling on party funding

Media is now calling for greater transparency in the Political Party Funding Bill.

A total train-smash: the R16bn ‘Gupta premium’

Gupta link in R647m train deal

Evidence now shows that Salim Essa helped two locomotive manufacturers to secure benefit in the largest locomotive acquisition in Transnet’s history.

The great train robbery Part 2 – The choo-choo switcheroo

The great train robbery Part 2 – The choo-choo switcheroo


How Transnet’s substitution of a Japanese locomotive with a Chinese one was helped along by – and served – the Guptas.

Bank of Baroda

#GuptaLeaks: How Bank of Baroda’s misadventures dragged it into SA’s political crisis

An investigation reveals a long list of potential violations, and an apparent disregard for banking ethics and regulations by BoB’s executives.

(Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Statement: #GuptaLeaks named 2017 National Press Club Newsmaker of the Year

Local media collaboration showed the value of journalists co- operating across commercially and personally competitive boundaries.

“From the 1990s, the frequency of the drying has increased and this is connected to the impacts of extreme weather events typical of climate change,” says environmental scientist professor Sosten Chiotha

#GuptaLeaks: Liverpool company owns 49% of Indian firm implicated in kickback scheme

The Guptas used what looks like an international money laundering network to move their wealth. The network reaches back to the UK.

Kapil Sibal at the World Economic Forum

#GuptaLeaks: Indian politician’s deal with Gupta partner

The Guptas chartered Cricket World Cup flights and bankrolled a luxury hotel stay for the family of Kapil Sibal.

#GuptaLeaks: Meet the money launderers

#GuptaLeaks: Meet the money launderers

The Guptas used an international network of scrap metal dealers to launder hundreds of millions in kickbacks between China, India, UAE and SA.

(John McCann/M&G)

A watershed year for investigative journalism and democracy in SA

2017 the year that was.

High jump: Oakbay Resources chairperson Atul Gupta at the JSE listing when the price of a share was R10.

#GuptaLeaks: The confidence game

How professionals missed the colossal fraud at the heart of Oakbay’s listing.

Alexander Bay
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#GuptaLeaks: A tale of two captures – Alexkor, Gupta Inc and ‘WMC’

The Richtersveld area on South Africa’s northwest coast was cursed with deserts, diamonds and greed. Then came the Guptas.

Henley students become critical

#GuptaLeaks: How family hijacked (and then lost) a Lesotho diamond mine

On the eve of Lesotho’s highly contested 2015 elections Prime Minister Tom Thabane’s government signed away a diamond mine to a Gupta-linked company.

#GuptaLeaks: KPMG missed more money laundering red flags

#GuptaLeaks: KPMG missed more money laundering red flags

The leaks reveal further incidents where KPMG apparently failed to heed signs of financial wrongdoing in its audit of Gupta-owned companies.

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#VirtualTownHall: whistleblowers — when are the stakes too high?

amaBhungane and Frayintermedia to host a live streamed panel discussion on whistleblowers and media sources. All welcome to join the discussion.

#GuptaLeaks released to journalists worldwide

#GuptaLeaks released to journalists worldwide

From today the trove of emails will be accessible to other journalists for an opportunity to collaborate and expose the full extent of wrongdoing.