On 23 July 2026, Jacob Zuma revoked every signing authority on the MK Party’s bank accounts and appointed himself the party’s accounting officer. 9 months earlier, the party’s own parliamentary caucus had asked him to order a forensic investigation into more than R70 million they said could not be accounted for. That investigation has still…
A contractor with no bakery collected R1 million a month from the state on a prison bread tender. Groenewald stopped it and replaced the contract with department-run bakeries producing bread at R8.00 a loaf, saving R77 million in a single financial year. Self-sufficiency across bakeries and farming saved South African taxpayers just over R202 million,…
Naspers, the JSE-listed company behind News24 publisher Media24, holds most of its market value inside a single asset, a stake in Chinese technology group Tencent. In January 2025, the United States Department of Defense added Tencent to its list of Chinese Military Companies under Section 1260H of federal law, and confirmed that designation again in…
Eskom chief executive Dan Marokane was paid R11.728 million in the 2025 financial year, including a near R5 million pay increase, while the utility received R140 billion in taxpayer support under the Eskom Debt Relief Act. Staff costs across the company rose by R8.3 billion in the same period. Economist Dawie Roodt has said the…
A parliamentary reply signed by Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia shows that over 4 financial years, 166 South Africans were murdered with firearms that had previously belonged to the state. Of those, 142 were killed with former SAPS weapons, a figure that has not improved since 2022. Meanwhile, SAPS refuses to tell Parliament which of its own stations are losing the most guns.
The investigation documents a clean-audited non-profit spending on staff and outreach. Whether that amounts to a scandal depends almost entirely on how the costs are classified. On 26 July, News24 published a lengthy investigation into the finances of AfriForum, the Afrikaner civil rights organisation. The article, by investigative journalist Kyle Cowan, described a group that…
In February 1988 a coup by roughly 250 of his own soldiers removed Bophuthatswana president Lucas Mangope from office, and the South African Defence Force crossed the border and restored him in under 24 hours, without any reference to international law and without consequence. In March 1994, when Mangope invoked Bophuthatswana’s sovereignty to refuse reincorporation…
The Western Cape High Court has halted President Ramaphosa’s impeachment hearings on a 2 to 1 vote. Most coverage named the 3 judges and stopped there, missing which one dissented, and a passage at paragraph 60 where the losing judge takes apart the Constitutional Court authority the majority relied on. The Western Cape High Court…
On the third day of her testimony before the Madlanga Commission, Andrea Johnson, head of IDAC, withdrew and apologised for calling Brigadier Dineo Mokwele’s appointment a “token appointment,” after Commissioner Sandile Khumalo showed the commission that Mokwele holds a degree in industrial engineering, a diploma in mechatronics, and close to a dozen further certificates. Johnson…
On the second day of her testimony before the Madlanga Commission, Andrea Johnson, head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC), conceded that her own unit solicited the section 27 affidavit that later became the legal basis for prosecuting Lieutenant General Dumisani Khumalo. Under questioning from Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, she admitted applying the wrong legal…
