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Political mafias and ‘business’ became common, for example municipal contracts between former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede and the Delangokubona Business Forum. Photo: File

Political gangsterism is a clear and present danger

In collaboration with crooks, political mafias have emerged in which private fortunes are being built on plundered public wealth

Downhill: Mark Thatcher, of ‘Wonga Coup’ notoriety, sold the property to the Gupta family who then fled rather than face state capture charges.

Facelift for mansion owned by ‘Wonga coup’ plotter Thatcher and Gupta state capture fugitives

A British business person is keeping the skeleton of the dilapidated R20 million Upper Constantia house, but has to replace the roof and the interior

Statue of Lady Justice at Roemer

The world urgently needs an international anti-corruption court

Corruption flourishes when justice systems are captured by the wealthy and powerful

Graphic: John McCann

SA scores below ‘flawed democracies’ in corruption index

The country performed worse than China and Cuba in Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index 2023 This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers.…

Thabo Bester escaped from his prison cell — by faking his death in the form of a mysterious burnt corpse specially brought in for the purpose. Photo: Supplied

Thabo Bester’s escape shows how privatising harms crime control

We should question the issue of prison outsourcing when the motive is profit and not public safety

The Phala Phala panel’s report casts a dark and damaging shadow over Ramaphosa’s presidency. (Photo: Delwyn Verasamy, M&G)

Editorial: Danger in toeing the party line

How different are those who will toe the party line on Tuesday to reject the section 89 panel’s report to those who rejected the firepool report and many others? And what do they…

In its budget review, the treasury flagged Transnet’s high debt levels, saying it needs to make faster progress on its plan to improve operations and finances

Four more people arrested in connection with state capture

Two former Transnet executives and two Regiments Capital officials were arrested on Monday morning

Complex choice: A Black Sash member outside the constitutional court during the social grants hearing. Even though the tender for the payment of social grants was awarded irregularly, annulling it would be the greater social ill for poor people. Photo: Alon Skuy/Sunday Times/Getty Images

For the law to rule, it must be applied

Mere forgiving and forgetting based on a lack of political will, incompetence, laziness, corrupt motives or even universal love, is not on

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Editorial: Zondo takes us back to the future

The president’s failings were mentioned. Read between the lines and you’ll find Farmgate too

Lynne Brown
2014 – 2018 (Photo by Thulani Mbele/Sowetan/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Lynne Brown went with the wishes of the Guptas — state capture report

The former minister was found to have played a strategic role in ensuring the ground was fertile for the Guptas to plunder Denel

The State Capture report has found that former president Jacob Zuma was at the centre of the Gupta owned media’s rampant corruption at state institutions. (Photo by Gallo Images / City Press / Leon Sadiki)

Zondo: Millions of rands siphoned to Gupta-owned newspaper

The State Capture report has found that former president Jacob Zuma was at the centre of the Gupta owned media’s rampant corruption at state institutions

Kuben Moodley during day 2 of the MTN SuperSport Shootout at Zimbali Coastal Resort on June 23, 2012 in Durban, South Africa.
(Photo by Anesh Debiky / Gallo Images)

Gupta-linked ‘fraudster’ nabbed en route to Dubai

Kubentheran Moodley was caught trying to ‘flee’ to Dubai allegedly after his family was threatened by a debt collector and the state seized R232-million worth of his assets

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

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Editorial: A country built on cartels

This week, a Mail & Guardian investigation unearths what happens when the so-called construction mafia is allowed to run rampant in the country.

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Editorial: Pay up, JZ – you have the cash

Jacob Zuma knows how to find money and spend it — as long as it’s not his own

Brian Molefe guns for Cyril Ramaphosa, alleging that the president’s relationship with Glencore was only a ploy to siphon money out of Eskom.(Gallo)

Molefe blames Ramaphosa for Eskom’s woes in statement to Zondo commission

Brian Molefe guns for Cyril Ramaphosa, alleging that the president’s relationship with Glencore was only a ploy to siphon money out of Eskom

Unequal justice: Carl Niehaus of the Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association warned of ‘civil unrest’ if Jacob Zuma is arrested. (Photo by Gallo Images/Sharon Seretlo)

Why the Big Fish escape the justice net

The small fish get caught. Jails are used to control the poor and disorderly and deflect attention from the crimes of the rich and powerful.

(Graphic: John McCann)

NPA recovers nearly R12-billion

In the past year alone, the Asset Forfeiture Unit has recovered money and assets gained through corruption-related crimes

South Africa’s ambassador to the Netherlands, Bruce Koloane. (Gallo Images/Sowetan/Thapelo Morebudi)

Koloane and the Waterkloof landing: So what if you help the Guptas?

Someone please call the police, the Hawks, the NPA… everyone

King Mswati III of eSwatini, Africa’s last absolute monarch, is facing growing demands for democracy and rule of law.

Mswati wanted Trillian to turn his country into a tax haven

The Gupta-linked company that had an ‘interest’ in South African SOE’s also tried to get a slice of the pie in eSwatini’s government projects