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Justice Minister Ronald Lamola. (Brenton Geach/Gallo Images and Phill Magakoe/ Gallo Images)

Lamola wants answers after first state capture case collapses

All Nulane Investments accused have been acquitted, but observers had been warning for months that the writing was on the wall

Campaigner: A young Peter Hain addresses an anti-apartheid meeting in London. (Photo by Watford/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)

Global players enabled ‘Zupta’ corruption

The Zupta decade: Governments and global corporates, banks and consultants must stop enabling money laundering

The Gupta brothers are the most recent additions to the 1?300-page United States blacklist. (Muntu Vilakazi/City Press/Gallo)

Banks called out over Gupta heists

A new report focuses on the role of financial institutions in the illicit movement of of money

Pay dirt: Tegeta’s shareholding has led to an intense scrutiny of Eskom’s curious contracts with the company’s mines and several investigations are underway.

Tegeta’s mines ‘riddled with non-compliance’

The mines are largely viable as mining operations, but optimal function requires the ‘right management’, members of parliament heard on Wednesday

“Because a 50% or 60% [debt to GDP ratio] is not such a bad figure if the composition of expenditure is such that the bulk of it is an investment rather than in consumption,” says Nhlanhla Nene.

Bizarre battles in Gupta rescue

The companies and the IDC are strange partners in court cases against the business rescue team

Indian businessmen

Court orders preservation order for Guptas’ mine rehabilitation funds

The Bank of Baroda was the only bank willing to transact with the Guptas after the "big four" banks in South Africa foreclosed on them.

Oscar Pistorius.

Bankers give Guptas extra time to keep records secret

Law stretched to protect Saxonwold family as wolves circle.

The Guptas’ banking woes started in 2017 when all four of the country’s major banks declined to do business with the controversial family’s companies.

Baroda unfair to Guptas – judge

The one-time friend of the controversial family wants nothing to do with their companies

The Germanwings aircraft came down in an area that is very hard to reach.

Gupta companies get another bank account reprieve

The Bank of Baroda will have another two weeks of business with Gupta companies, and every prospect of being locked into the relationship for months.

Pay up: Production halted at Gupta-linked VR Laser as workers picketed for their August wages.

Gupta firms sail close to the wind

With no access to banking, the family is heading into a financial storm. But it has a few lifeboats yet

Radebe: “It is true that coal jobs are at risk in South Africa, but this is not as a result of the renewable energy independent power producer programme.” (Katherine Muick-Mere/Sunday Times/Gallo Images)

Court grants interdict to freeze R1.7-billion Gupta mine rehab funds

The funds, meant to manage environmental damage caused by mining, were kept at the Bank of Baroda.

Oscar Pistorius.

Gupta firms roasted in bank court bid

The judge was scathing when he rejected the family’s bid to force the Bank of Baroda’s arm

Indian businessmen

Bank of Baroda begins closing Gupta-linked accounts

Oakbay Investments, the controversial family’s main holding company, said it wasn’t aware that Baroda would close its accounts.