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Athandiwe Saba

Athandiwe Saba is a multi award-winning journalist who is passionate about data, human interest issues, governance and everything that isn’t on social media. She is an author, an avid reader and trying to find the answer to the perfect balance between investigative journalism, online audiences and the decline in newspaper sales. It’s a rough world and a rewarding profession.

Hot on the trail: (From left) Actors playing Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey, Dean Baquet and Rebecca Corbett work on their investigation in ‘She Said’. Photo: JoJo Whilden/Universal Pictures
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One Movie Two Takes: She Said

Film tells how two investigative journalists exposed sexual predator Harvey Weinstein and started a movement

Build-up was a let-down: Little has come of the planned Lanseria Smart City, north of Johannesburg, which was to house half a million residents. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Smart city remains but a dream

Three years after Ramaphosa proposed it, the land earmarked for the Lanseria urban development remains just veld

Planning his return: Botswana’s former president Ian Khama says he is open to a reconciliation with the incumbent Mokgweetsi Masisi because it would be in the nation’s interests. Photo: Paul Botes
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Ian Khama: I am going back to Botswana

As the former president gets ready to return to Botswana and decide his political future, current President Mokgweetsi Masisi appears to be extending an olive branch

Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years

In 1997, the warning bells were ringing that South Africa faced a dark future because Eskom would run out of capacity to supply a growing populace and an expanding economy

About 50% of South African businesses included cyber incidents as a top risk. This was in line with the previous year’s rankings and global trends. (Photo by Arne Dedert/picture alliance via Getty Images)

What businesses and chief executives are most afraid of in 2023

Two reports reveal what bosses and businesses worldwide are most concerned about. In South Africa, Eskom and cyber risks are big concerns

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe. Photo: Felix Dlangamandla/Gallo

Gwede Mantashe accused of meddling in mining rights

The minister’s wife, Nolwandle, stands accused of using his name and position to gain interest in a Northern Cape mine

Thobile Mpumza was shot dead in Marikana in 2012. The family is fighting for compensation as Thobile was their breadwinner.

Finding justice 10 years after the Marikana massacre

The family of one of the victims of the shooting has received neither money nor an apology

Reverend Thabiso Mcinga, who became a voice for the youth, talks about her search for signposts on her path to leading a Methodist church. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Signs on the road to a ministry

Reverend Thabiso Mcinga, who became a voice for the youth, talks about her search for signposts on her path to leading a Methodist church

Whitsleblower Angelo Agrizzi apparently from a respiratory condition. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G

Agrizzi says he had more to tell Zondo

Angelo Agrizzi told the M&G he was offered R50-million in 2018 to keep quiet about state capture.

The NPA’s dismal record has come under the scrutiny of Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo in his 874-page report released on Tuesday.
(Photo by GUILLEM SARTORIO/AFP via Getty Images)

Zondo: Why South Africa urgently needs a functional National Prosecuting Authority

If the four-year Zondo inquiry into state capture is to be worth a billion rand, the NPA has to bring those who looted the country to book. Yet it has performed inadequately for…

Inside a kidnapping rescue mission gone wrong. The result? The alleged shooting of a Somali civilian. (Getty Images)

Multimillion-rand hostage drama spawns alleged murder ‘cover-up’

Investigation: Inside a kidnapping rescue mission gone wrong. The result? The alleged shooting of a Somali civilian

Discriminatory laws: Masewa Joseph Netshituka with his first wife, Tshinakaho, (left) and his second wife, Masindi (right).

The black women who fought against remnants of apartheid laws

Tirelessly working to build a home and a legacy only to be told you have no right over it once your husband dies or decides to divorce you — the story of black women who battled…

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Photo by Gallo Images / Phill Magakoe)

Legal challenges loom against Zuma’s medical parole

The DA announces it will approach the high court, and the Helen Suzman Foundation has also threatened action

Judge Colin Lamont

Judge adjudicating Marikana lawsuit against Ramaphosa and Sibanye sold his shares in Lonmin

The application to have Judge Colin Lamont recuse himself was launched hours after the disclosure

Margins are closing: The ANC won 53.9% of the votes in the 2016 local government elections and the trend is downwards. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

ANC’s electoral infighting is music to smaller parties’ ears

Branches in several provinces will go to court to challenge the ruling party’s final choice of councillor candidates for the local government elections

Out of office: President Cyril Ramaphosa initially refused to meet Job Mokgoro, because there
was ‘no need to’, a source said

North West premier Job Mokgoro resigns

Ramaphosa has finally met with premier Mokgroro resulting in him announcing his resignation on Thursday morning

Former Eskom chief executive André de Ruyter.

Q&A Sessions: ‘I cannot fix Eskom. But we can fix this’ — André de Ruyter

Meet the father, the cook and the chief executive of Eskom, who wakes up at 3am and writes speeches. André de Ruyter speaks to Athandiwe Saba about the future of the power…

Motivated: Kgothatso Montjane first started playing tennis when she was 19 and despite all odds made it to the top. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Q&A Sessions: Montjane: The unlikely tennis star

Kgothatso Montjane speaks to Athandiwe Saba about her becoming the first black woman South African player to reach the Wimbledon final, her ‘robotic’ leg, being a DJ and the love…

Zweli Mkhize
2019 – 2021. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

SIU tells Cyril to axe Zweli Mkhize

Digital Vibes company, controlled by the health minister’s ‘comrade’, was favoured over firms that tendered at about half the price

Auditor-General, Tsakani Maluleke.

Leadership failures blamed for collapsing local government

Municipalities are in dire straits, and the auditor general says many may no longer be viable at all