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Craig Mckune
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PIC’s dodgy oil investment going down the tube
Article
/ 26 April 2018

PIC’s dodgy oil investment going down the tube

A R4-billion Public Investment Corporation investment could be wiped out as Texan oil firm files for bankruptcy

By Craig Mckune
Survé’s listing ship
Article
/ 21 April 2018

Survé’s listing ship

The intended listing of Sagarmatha Technologies was a mirror image of a deal in which the PIC was used to massively underwrite the Survé fortune.

By Sam Sole And, Sam Sole and Craig Mckune
The minister, the middleman, the mansion and the new corporate kid
Article
/ 13 April 2017

The minister, the middleman, the mansion and the new corporate kid

JSE‐listed firm’s executive for government business in tangle with minister’s confidante

By Craig Mckune
How Net 1 flouts the financial rules
Article
/ 3 April 2017

How Net 1 flouts the financial rules

The Financial Services Board is probing Net 1 over allegations that it abuses its clients – mostly social grant beneficiaries.

By Craig Mckune
Social grants payment crisis – everything you need to know but were afraid to ask
Article
/ 17 March 2017

Social grants payment crisis – everything you need to know but were afraid to ask

From the very short to the short to the plain and simple answer for why Sassa has not got its act together on the social grants crisis.

By Sam Sole And, Sam Sole and Craig Mckune
Serge Belamant, Sassa and the ‘war chest’ of poor people
Article
/ 16 March 2017

Serge Belamant, Sassa and the ‘war chest’ of poor people

The social grants system has been taken captive. Its captor is grabbing all that he can, before he’s deposed. The minster’s fought to give him time.

By Craig Mckune
Bathabile Dlamini’s Game of Chicken
Article
/ 25 February 2017

Bathabile Dlamini’s Game of Chicken

ANALYSIS

By Craig Mckune
Grants: Belamant holds a gun to SA’s head as Dlamini dawdles
Article
/ 18 February 2017

Grants: Belamant holds a gun to SA’s head as Dlamini dawdles

A high stakes standoff over social grants is becoming a political proxy battlefield.

By Craig Mckune
EXCLUSIVE: Officials defied Dlamini on social grants
Article
/ 3 February 2017

EXCLUSIVE: Officials defied Dlamini on social grants

Social development minister and top officials are at odds over how to pay 17-million social grants from April.

By Craig Mckune
Serge Belamant, SASSA, and the ‘useful blacks’
Article
/ 14 December 2016

Serge Belamant, SASSA, and the ‘useful blacks’

Belamant used a BEE front to win a R10b tender before dumping it for a person with links to social development minister Bathabile Dlamini.

By Craig Mckune
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