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PS: While we’re fighting in court for access to the Steinhoff forensic report, we are also pursuing access to Jacob Zuma’s tax records via the Information Regulator. Rob Rose sets out the background
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[JUST IN]Ramaphosa’s stolen millions: the Namibian connection
In 2020 Namibian authorities identified suspects following a break-in at Cyril’s farm, but sources allege SA intelligence back-channels were used to get the Namibians to let the matter go.
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Tycoon Christo Wiese has been implicated in what Sars has described as an elaborate tax-dodging scheme — and now the taxman wants R3.7billion in back taxes and penalties. Read the whole story tomorrow
@amaBhungane
@FinancialMail
#amaBhungane
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BREAKING: Cabinet approves PetroSA's R3.7-billion deal with Russia's Gazprombank. Read amaBhungane's investigation on the deal which saw 19 out of 20 bidders being eliminated on technical grounds, leaving Gazprombank as the only qualifying bidder:
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[Thread]
#BREAKING
: The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) has rejected Turkish-led Karpowership’s application for environmental permits.
Without these critical permits
#Karpowership
’s projects cannot go ahead. This effectively sinks the R225bn project.
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JUST IN: [Thread] Years of relentless dung-digging by the
@amaBhungane
beetles pays off!
#McKinsey
has agreed to return R870-million to Transnet – consulting fees plus interest, all tainted by state capture.
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COMING UP:
@amaBhungane
will be publishing a series linking
#JuliusMalema
and the
#EFF
to tender corruption in Joburg and Tshwane. Part 1, out soon, explores new evidence linking the EFF to
#Afrirent
, the firm that won a R1.2bn CoJ fleet contract we reported on last year.
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PetroSA wants to partner with Russia’s Gazprombank – currently under US and UK sanctions – to restart the gas-to-liquids refinery in Mossel Bay in a $200-million (R3.7-billion) deal.
#PetroSA
#Gazprombank
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Victory for
#amaB
today as court grants order for Department of Social Development to hand over ALL
#Zuma
Foundation records held by NPO Directorate!
@amabhungane
@KaraboRajuili
#amaBAdvocacy
#AccessToInformation
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🧵BREAKING: Transnet pension fund gets court order to provisionally sequestrate Eric Wood, a key player in State Capture.
Wood, a high-profile trader, was a senior executive at Regiments Capital and Trillian Capital which helped execute the Guptas’ capture of Transnet and Eskom.
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Cabinet has approved a R3.8bn deal between PetroSA and Russia’s Gazprombank.
But how did 19 out of 20 bidders get eliminated from the tender, leaving Gazprombank as the only qualifying bid?
Here’s the evaluation criteria…
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WATCH THIS SPACE: An
@amaBhungane
exposé will today reveal that a company that won a R1bn Joburg fleet contract paid a Malema-EFF ‘slush fund’ |
#Malema
#EFF
#amaBhungane
#amaB
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We've received incredible donations today - a big thank you to all
@amaBhungane
supporters. We couldn't do this without you.
#GuptaLeaks
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Eskom has spent R20-billion on diesel this year. Its biggest supplier is PetroSA. But energy minister Gwede Mantashe refuses to disclose where the diesel comes from: “If you want to expose the business of PetroSA you’re basically killing it,” he told amaBhungane
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BREAKING: SAP agrees to pay $220-million to US and South Africa to settle
#GuptaLeaks
corruption case. South Africa will get $55-million (R1-billion) which SAP will pay as a “criminal penalty”. More details to follow. For now, read the DoJ press release:
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STATE CAPTURE: Transnet vs Nedbank
Transnet and the SIU have filed papers with the JHB high court to have the 2015/16 interest rate swaps with Nedbank set aside. Transnet wants Nedbank to
#PayBackTheMoney
to the tune of R2.7-billion.
Here’s where it gets interesting… [thread]
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Over the last year our reporting has made us unpopular with the ANC’s Geoff Makhubo and Mzwandile Masina, the DA’s Herman Mashaba and with the EFF as a whole. But we've gained many supporters along the way, and we couldn't do what we do without you!
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AmaBhungane: a time to celebrate – and to build vigilance for a new era | |We think the
#GuptaLeaks
have proved our worth – but journalism, like democracy, demands eternal vigilance. By
@SamSoleZA
#TruthToPower
#amaBhungane
#FreePress
#Democracy
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JUST IN: Chinese rail supplier to return R618m to Transnet | | By
@sajournalist
#PopoMolefe
#Transnet
#Guptas
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In 2015, SAFA bought a water park for R65-million. 8 years later there’s little sign of the world-class technical centre that was promised.
SAFA wants another R600-million for Fun Valley. But when
#BanyanaBanyana
asked for bonuses, SAFA said it couldn’t afford it.
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Former Jhb Mayor and ANC regional treasurer Mpho Moerane appears to be linked to over R26-million in transfers made using the suspected laundry scheme that directed money to Archbishop Bheki Lukhele and his church All Nations.
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CONFIRMED: Middleman Kuben Moodley was arrested at OR Tambo last night, as he was about to board a plane for Dubai.
Who is Moodley? How did he make ±R50m from state capture? And why did he call
@amaBhungane
journalists “c🤬nts” who are “creating civil war”? [Thread.]
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JUST IN: Constitutional Court upholds all of amaBhungane's arguments regarding unconstitutionality of RICA surveillance
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A “highly confidential” contract that remained secret for 7 years shows how state capture players, assisted by one of the biggest banks in the country, sucked millions out of state-owned entities and municipalities through introduction fees.
Read it all tomorrow ->
@amaBhungane
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BREAKING NEWS: Joburg mayor Geoff Makhubo will testify at the Zondo Commission on Friday.
Makhubo secretly benefitted from a City of JHB contract, taking ±R30m from state capture facilitators Regiments, some while he was MMC of Finance.
#StateCaptureInquiry
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BREAKING: A joint
@amaBhungane
and
@News24
investigation finds the State Security Agency wrote Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's order to change the mandate of the SA Reserve Bank and with it the Constitution.
Part:
#PublicProtector
#PPvsSARB
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Eight prime suspects in the pillaging and destruction of VBS Mutual Bank were rounded up in simultaneous raids this morning...
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AMABHUNGANE BREAKING NEWS: The
#NPA
has seized bank accounts and property belonging to
#RegimentsCapital
, directors Litha Nyhonyha and Niven Pillay, and former director Eric Wood in terms of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act ...
@amaBhungane
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New ANC SG Fikile Mbalula has threatened to fire underperforming deployees.
Yet one would be hard pressed to find a more disastrous performance than Mbalula’s four-year stint as Minister of Transport where he presided over the near collapse of PRASA.
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BREAKING NEWS
AmaBhungane vindicated by
#ConstitutionalCourt
in
#PPvCR17
decision! CC has ruled that the High Court was wrong not to consider amaB's argument on the need for internal campaign financing disclosure. The issue will go back to the High Court.
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Disappointing to see
@SABCNews
become a platform for disinformation.
We provided this statement 👇 to
@SizweMpofuWalsh
and
@UnfilteredSABC
which they failed to read.
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It's long been rumoured the
#EFF
got patronage over JHB tenders as a quid pro quo for working with
#Mashaba
’s DA-led administration. Now
@amaBhungane
can show how a fleet firm made payments to a company whose account was used for
#Malema
, EFF benefit
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AmaBhungane welcomes the court order issued at midday today undoing the worst aspects of the order obtained against us by the Moti Group in a secret court hearing on Thursday.
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#Deloitte
agrees to
#PayBackTheMoney
💰
#Eskom
will get R150-million back from irregular consulting contracts dating back to state capture era.
@amaBhungane
@sajournalist
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Incredible recognition of SA investigative journalism tonight!
@amabhungane
,
@dailymaverick
,
@News24
&
@FinUncovered
won the 2019 Global Shining Light Award for the
#GuptaLeaks
and well done to our joint winners from the Philippines
@rapplerdotcom
@gijn
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Ex-VBS chair Tshifhiwa Matodzi claimed he paid former Treasury Director General Dondo Mogajane R1-million via a non-profit company. Mogajane denied receiving any bribe, but new information confirms his links to the Mkhize sisters, who controlled the NPC.
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Investigation update: The Central Energy Fund (CEF) tells Parliament it plans to cancel the offshore gas deal between PetroSA and Lawrence Mulaudzi’s Equator Holdings.
AmaBhungane exposed the deal – estimated to be worth up to R21.6-billion – in January:
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[1/9] STATE CAPTURE: German crane manufacturer Liebherr has agreed to pay $3.2-million (R54-million) to Transnet over a 2014 crane contract that was exposed in the
#GuptaLeaks
.
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Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane instructed investigators in the Estina Dairy probe to remove findings that would implicate politicians, including Ace Magashule and Mosebenzi Zwane.
PART 2 of the
@amaBhungane
and
@News24
investigation:
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Gauteng Health pays middlemen between R7 and R8 for plastic containers used to package frozen food for patients in select hospitals and clinics. However, a 2023 quote obtained by amaBhungane, shows that one of the “approved” manufacturers sells these containers for R2.03 per unit
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In 2000, the Gauteng government accidentally sold off Phoenix Secondary School in Vereeniging for R600k, believing the land was empty. 22 years later
@EducationGP1
is paying R185k/month to rent the school it once owned.
Read
@amaBhungane
’s investigation:
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Information obtained by amaBhungane points to a major cover-up of the 2020 theft of some US$4-million in cash from Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala game farm in Limpopo.
The key questions are: what did Ramaphosa do, what did he know, & why was it hushed up?
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WOW -- High court Judge Roland Sutherland has declared
#RICA
inconsistent with Constitution fails to provide appropriate safeguards; validity suspended for 2 years to allow parliament to (reconsider).
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Some sharp questions from our media colleagues at
#Malema
's presser. While
@amaBhungane
remains banned by EFF (Malema labelled us "criminals" without any basis) we felt empowered by the solidarity shown by our fellow reporters demanding answers from the country’s political elite.
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Every day it seems to get darker, more polarised, more abusive. Is this just the result of Twitter’s algorithms...or is there something more manipulative going on?
READ the story ➡️
@amaBhungane
@sajournalist
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#Eskom
’s R3.8-billion summons against its former bosses and the
#Guptas
is the most complete narrative yet of Gupta state capture from official sources. It draws heavily on reporting by
@amaBhungane
and other investigative journalists.
Read our explainer
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INCREDIBLE we have reached R1-million in donations for this financial year! Thanks to our
#amaBSupporters
!
#SupportAmaB
#SupportDemocracy
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Update: Intercape has won a court order forcing police to investigate claims that rogue taxi associations in the Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Gauteng are orchestrating ongoing attacks on its vehicles to extort the company or shut it down.
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BREAKING: The High Court has found in favour of the
@FinancialMail
and
@amaBhungane
in our joint challenge to SARS’ refusal to disclose former President Jacob Zuma’s tax records in the public interest. Read the judgement:
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AMABHUNGANE🐞
Millions out, Billions in part 1: Majola’s investment in ANC and EFF kept everyone sweet - an investigation by
@RedMicah
and
@StefaansB
@amaBhungane
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[Thread] JUST IN:
#AmaB
scores major win for political funding transparency! The High Court has handed down judgment declaring the Executive Ethics Code to be unconstitutional, unlawful and invalid.
@amaBhungane
#amaBhungane
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We believe the world is a more just and open place thanks to courageous whistleblowers. Next week we head into a court battle to defend their right - and our right - to keep exposing wrongdoing.
#WorldWhistleblowersDay
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AMABHUNGANE: Absa does a Gupta on Iqbal Survé
The bank has cut ties with 24 companies directly or indirectly controlled by Survé’s Sekunjalo Investment Holdings. The move is reminiscent of the beginning of the end of the Gupta empire.
By
@DewaldvanRensb1
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20 companies submitted bids to refurbish PetroSA’s gas-to-liquids refinery in Mossel Bay. 19 of the 20 did not pass the unusually strict technical criteria. The only company that did was the local subsidiary of Russia’s Gazprombank.
#PetroSA
#Gazprombank
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From the deserts of an offshore tax haven to PO boxes in a basement in Midrand we followed the money and found 9 letterbox companies siphoning roughly R600m from Transnet and other SOEs to Salim Essa, the Guptas and their associates
@sajournalist
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🧵BREAKING: Karpowership DENIED permit to operate in Ngqura. Its application has been SUSPENDED in Saldanha and WITHDRAWN in Richards Bay.
The company won a contract to supply Eskom with 1 220 MW of emergency power in 2020. But failed to secure environmental authorisation.
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We are in urgent, virtual court this morning to challenge the order handed down – ex parte and in camera – this week, ordering us to return documents we have on activities of the Moti Group and barring us from reporting on the documents’ content.
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The South African Revenue Service (SARS) continues to deny amaBhungane and the Financial Mail’s requests for access to former president Jacob Zuma’s tax records despite the seminal judgment of the Constitutional Court handed down in May 2023.
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Leaked documents show that PetroSA’s bid evaluation committee raised concerns about PetroSA partnering with Gazprombank. PetroSA pushed back with a legal opinion that said it had “no right to entertain other offers” aside from the Russians’.
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From today, the
#Guptaleaks
trove of emails is to be accessible to other journalists for an opportunity to collaborate and expose the full extent of wrongdoing | | with
@dailymaverick
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[Thread] NEWS JUST IN
The High Court has found in favour of the
@FinancialMail
and
@amaBhungane
in our challenge to SARS’ refusal to disclose former President Zuma’s tax records in the public interest.
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Remember that journalism, like democracy, demands eternal vigilance. And with your help we will continue to speak loudly and carry a sharp pen
#amaBhungane
#SupportAmaB
#TruthToPower
#Democracy
#SONA2018
#SouthAfrica
->
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Who is behind South Africa’s xenophobic nationalism?
Evidence gathered for amaBhungane suggests that if South Africa descends into xenophobic violence, it will be disproportionately due to the actions of a few political actors.
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How did Limpopo businessman Lawrence Mulaudzi score a 10% stake in a R21.6-billion gas deal with PetroSA?
“They were foisted on us … They don’t add any value to us,” a source said. (Both Mulaudzi and PetroSA deny this.)
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In solidarity with
@amaBhungane
,
@dailymaverick
and other barred journalists,
@eNCA
has taken a stand and will no longer be covering this weekend EFF elective conference.
#eNCA
has taken a principled decision to stop covering this weekend’s
#EFF
elective conference.
#EFFNPA2019
#EFF2ndNPA
#eNCAWeekend
with
@Mpakanyane
Courtesy
#DStv403
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BEE partners Powergroup SA lost its urgent application to stop Karadeniz kicking it out of the Karpowership deal – but succeeded in exposing a secret agreement which Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi described as “State Capture on steroids”.
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#MotiVsJournalism
Update:
The Moti Group’s attempt to revive their case against amaBhungane in the Constitutional Court has been DISMISSED. The court has found that “no case has been made out”. They awarded us costs - a show of their displeasure.
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#Steinheist
! Our Steinhoff exclusive is out tomorrow. Markus Jooste's secret history: how the Steinhoff scam began
#amaB
#Jooste
@amaBhungane
@FinancialMail
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WE'RE BACK if you couldn't get to our stories earlier then access them now:
#EarthCrimes
— Powerships: How the multi-billion-rand tender was (legally) rigged
@amaBhungane
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In the run-up to the elections we must also keep an eye on what’s happening in Parliament – there are 74 bills in progress and many may be rushed through before the election date. In this video, we explain why this is such a problem.
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"AmaBhungane has now confirmed from company records that Optimum Coal Mine, Koornfontein Mines and Optimum Coal Terminal have been placed into business rescue." On
@eNCA
now
@amaBhungane
's
@sajournalist
#Guptas
#OptimumRescue
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Thank you to all who supported our work today after reading | Be an amaB Supporter and help us do more stories like it at
@amaBhungane
#amaBhungane
#amaBSupporter
#InvestigativeJournalism
#Democracy
#FreePress
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Over the last year our reporting has made us unpopular with the ANC’s Geoff Makhubo and Mzwandile Masina, the DA’s Herman Mashaba and with the EFF as a whole. But we've gained many supporters along the way, and we couldn't do what we do without you.
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A second wave of arrests is widely expected this time targeting some of the municipal officials who deposited billions in
#VBS
allegedly often in exchange for bribes. After that the road appears headed to political bosses...
@DewaldvanRensb1
@amaBhungane
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Judgement has been handed down in our case to set aside the Moti Group’s unprecedented gag order against the
#MotiFiles
. We are happy to announce a resounding victory handed down by Judge Sutherland.
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The Press Ombudsman has dismissed a complaint made against
@amabhungane
by JHB Mayor Herman Mashaba over an article we wrote last year -> | Read the Press Ombud’s ruling here ->
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Own goal! PetroSA’s multi-billion rand offshore gas deal thwarted by unpaid soccer player
“If you can’t properly run a football club that’s worth about a few million how are you going to juggle R21.6-billion?” Cheslyn Chase Jampies told us.
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Guptas bankrolled
#AnojSingh
's "mistress" & his Dubai trips. They gave him an offshore company &, apparently, cash.
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AmaBhungane: a time to celebrate – and to build vigilance for a new era | |We think the
#GuptaLeaks
have proved our worth – but journalism, like democracy, demands eternal vigilance. By
@SamSoleZA
#TruthToPower
#amaBhungane
#FreePress
#Democracy
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Powerships: Enviro investigation could capsize R225-billion deal
@amaBhungane
#Karpowership
#GreenScorpions
#Eskom
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Zunaid Moti’s campaign to quash our reporting has taken a new turn. The controversial businessman has embarked on a new venture, enlisting an anonymous “freelance journalist” and threatening to write hard-hitting “exposés” on us.
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Despite warnings from the Zondo Commission - a weak Public Procurement Bill has been approved by Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance. The bill fails to address the clear link between tendering systems and corruption.
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Social media photos reveal that former National Treasury Director General Dondo Mogajane is a family friend of the sisters who control the Baphilile Foundation, allegedly used as a front to receive a R1-million ‘bribe’ in 2017.
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Treasury orders investigation into Joburg’s EFF-linked fleet contract
BY
@RedMicah
@amaBhungane
#EFF
#CoJ
#Afrirent
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Why did the
#StateCaptureReport
dedicate 500 pages to Transnet alone?
Transnet became the primary site of State Capture in financial terms. Contracts worth R41bn were irregularly awarded to companies with Gupta links. More than 70% of State Capture by value happened here.
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BREAKING: A joint
@amaBhungane
and
@News24
investigation finds the State Security Agency wrote Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's order to change the mandate of the SA Reserve Bank and with it the Constitution.
Part 1:
#PublicProtector
#PPvsSARB
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The order to change the mandate of the SA Reserve Bank was handed to Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane on a piece of paper by a member of the State Security Agency, an explosive whistleblower affidavit reveals.
@amaBhungane
and
@News24
investigates:
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The infamous VBS Mutual Bank was used as a giant hawala system moving money between Zimbabwe and South Africa. Among its clients were businessman Zunaid Moti, helped by an old associate called “Joe Dollars”.
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#Steinheist
Meet the enablers who helped Markus Jooste and the Steinhoff family do secret deals with their own company. Our 6000 word exposé is online tomorrow.
#amaB
@amaBhungane
@FinancialMail
@CraigMcKune
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READ: In a complex deal ENSafrica restructured a multinational oil co. in a way that allowed it to spirit R3.9bn out of SA without paying all owed taxes. ENSafrica then sold the cash shell to Wiese. Sars claims the transaction was an elaborate tax dodge
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#SAP
admits it did 6 deals with Gupta-linked entities – 2xTransnet and
4xEskom – and paid R107m in “commissions”
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We have scored some remarkable advocacy victories this year, including the high court decision overturning unregulated and unconstitutional parts of the state’s surveillance regime. Read more here: Support amaB, support democracy!
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AmaBhungane investigations have impact. We won’t stop exposing wrongdoing and holding government and corporate institutions to account. But we do need public support, so that we can keep on digging and doing the important investigative work
@amaBhungane
does.
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SARS hits Guptas with major tax bill and unearths R105m in mystery payments
BY
@DewaldvanRensb1
@amaBhungane
#GuptaLeaks
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