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Lionel is a reporter at the Mail & Guardian Centre for Investigative Journalism, Amabhungane.

Khinali Bagwandeen watched the world watch her father stumble over his words

The investigation that unravelled an international syndicate dealing in stolen ARVs

How undercover police infiltrated a criminal network that spent years hiding behind a curtain of shelf companies, Swiss bank accounts and pseudonyms.

South Africa may still need donor support to fund expanded ARV roll out in the country.

Exposed: Southern African trio ‘sold expired ARVs’ in Europe at a 4 000% markup

Life-saving HIV drugs were allegedly diverted from Africa’s public health system to sell in Europe.

Nurse Pauline dips into a medicines box. Pauline and her team travel hundreds of kilometres by camel to provide health services to Kenya’s most remote villages

In rural Kenya, camel clinics bring much needed care to those who need it

Healthcare for Kenya’s semi-nomadic communities comes in an unlikely form of camels, who carry medicine to the country’s most remote villages.

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Panama leaks unveil Porritt’s secret web

A vast global data leak has shed new light on one of SA’s most notorious corporate scandals – that which surrounds KZN farmer-accountant Gary Porritt.

Koeberg power station.

Fallout from nuclear tender meltdown

Eskom’s "irrational and unlawful" nuclear tender process means it will have to reconsider the issue yet again

Koeberg power station.

Fallout from nuclear tender meltdown

Eskom’s "irrational and unlawful" nuclear tender process means it will have to reconsider the issue yet again

Molefe’s ‘stale’ new Eskom mix

The new top leadership at Eskom is experienced, but doubts remain about several controversial appointments.

Scandal-plagued Eskom executives retained, promoted

The new top leadership at Eskom is experienced, but doubts remain about several controversial appointments.

Nuclear storm brews as board tries to oust energy chief

Necsa faces a leadership crisis at the precise moment the government is on the cusp of issuing the main tender for the nuclear build project.

Nuke plan: 50 shades of arms deal

Atomic Tina Joemat-Pettersson and her team are rushing the nuclear deal but the fallout spells disaster.

Putin’s lobolo may seal nuke deal

Five countries are vying for the lucrative nuclear contract but Russia looks like the successful suitor.

Lynne Brown is determined to find a long-term solution to the energy crisis

Eskom chiefs put on ice by gatvol board

And the Cabinet’s ‘war room’ has lost patience with the utility’s handling of the crisis it faces.

Using AI without critical reflection widens the gap between relevance and convenience.

Jobs for pals at state nuclear firm

A whistle-blower has claimed that the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation created a job for the chief executive’s wife, Ngeniswa Tyobeka.

Former agriculture and energy minister and ANC national executive committee member Tina Joemat-Pettersson has died, the ruling party confirmed on Monday evening.

Energy minister shields ‘key Zuma nuclear ally’

An ugly battle over the suspension of Necsa’s chief executive has split state nuke company down the middle.

Koeberg’s chief nuclear officer, Riedewaan Barkadien, has resigned to take up an executive position at a nuclear power station in Canada. Eskom said former Koeberg power station plant manager Keith Featherstone would act as chief nuclear officer from the start of August.

Eskom can’t change rules mid-game

“You can’t just change the rules in the middle of a match … both sides need to be informed”

President Jacob Zuma and Vladimir Putin.

[Archives] Exposed: Scary details of SA’s secret Russian nuke deal

The secret nuclear deal our leaders have signed with Russia carries many risks for South Africa.

Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson and Rosatom director general Sergey Kirienko signed an intergovernmental agreement on nuclear energy in September last year.

What the SA-Russia nuke agreement says – and means

We look at the nuclear agreement Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson signed with Russia last year and the implications thereof for South Africa.

“The reason that I think it would be useful to declare a national state of disaster is because then everything is in place for anything that we need to do that may require us to shortcut certain systems

Auditors rap Eskom Gupta splurge

An investigation by the parastatal’s board into the contentious ‘New Age’ deal will be finalised soon.

Generating steam: The wrangle over the awarding of a tender to replace Koeberg’s generators goes on.

Losing the battle to win the war

Eskom has finally given Westinghouse most of the documents relating to the nuclear tender

Former Eskom group chief executive Matshela Koko.

Twist to Koeberg tender

A question hangs over the consultants who overrode the choice of Eskom’s technical team