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Conflicted: Andrea
Johnson, head of
the Investigating
Directorate Against
Corruption (IDAC).
Photo: Parliament of RSA

Complaint against Idac head

A civil society organisation has opened a new criminal complaint against senior prosecutor Andrea Johnson, alleging a conflict of interest in a recruitment process in which her…

The M&G understands that the IDC has spent over R54 million in the last three years on various law firms just on ER matters alone.

Exclusive: Club Med deal exposes IDC governance failures

Allegations of governance failures have emerged over the IDC’s involvement in a R2.1bn Club Med Tinley leisure development

Cyril Ramaphosa’s farm, Phala Phala. (Leon Sadiki)

ATM ‘will pursue all legal avenues’ over the Phala Phala scandal

The National Prosecuting Authority says Ramaphosa is off the Phala Phala hook

The Special Investigating Unit traced financial gains of more than R181 million linked to beneficiaries of fraudulent visa applications that were supported by fake documentation

Government departments’ failure to initiate blacklisting lets tender fraudsters off the hook

Only 5% of entities, departments and municipalities have initiated blacklisting for offenders

Graphic: John McCann

Corruption overwhelms the land as citizens run out of outrage juice

In the throes of finger-pointing, the authorities forget about the tools they already have at their disposal, such as the Corruption, Prevention and Combating of Corrupt…

Former Eskom chief executive Andre De Ruyter. Photo: Supplied

De Ruyter: I told the police more than I said in TV interview

The former Eskom chief executive said he relayed all privately-gathered intelligence to the police and Minister Pravin Gordhan, and so did not breach his reporting duty

Former Eskom chief executive, André de Ruyter. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Hawks head says De Ruyter is a ‘suspect’ for not reporting alleged Eskom graft

The Hawks and SIU suggested to Scopa that the former Eskom chief lied about reporting fraud and corruption

Former Eskom chief executive André de Ruyter.

ANC preparing summons in defamation suit against De Ruyter

The party is calculating the amount it would seek from the former Eskom CEO in damages but is struggling to establish his whereabouts

Former Eskom chief executive Andre de Ruyter.

Eskom and De Ruyter still silent on ANC’s legal threat

Neither the utility nor its former CEO have replied to a letter of demand issued by the ruling party. They were given until Wednesday to do so