Craig Mckune

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PIC’s dodgy oil investment going down the tube

Article Craig Mckune - 26 Apr 2018

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

Survé’s listing ship

Article Sam Sole And, Craig Mckune & Sam Sole - 21 Apr 2018

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.

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

Article Craig Mckune - 13 Apr 2017

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

How Net 1 flouts the financial rules

Article Craig Mckune - 3 Apr 2017

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

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

Article Sam Sole And, Craig Mckune & Sam Sole - 17 Mar 2017

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.

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

Article Craig Mckune - 16 Mar 2017

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.

Bathabile Dlamini’s Game of Chicken

Article Craig Mckune - 25 Feb 2017

ANALYSIS

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

Article Craig Mckune - 18 Feb 2017

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

EXCLUSIVE: Officials defied Dlamini on social grants

Article Craig Mckune - 3 Feb 2017

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

Serge Belamant, SASSA, and the ‘useful blacks’

Article Craig Mckune - 14 Dec 2016

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

How Sassa paid R316-million to a contractor based on a ‘lie’

Article Craig Mckune - 30 Sep 2016

A detailed inspection of the paper trail finds that the work claimed for was covered by an all-inclusive fee.

How Sassa paid R316-million to a contractor based on a ‘lie’

Article Craig Mckune - 30 Sep 2016

A detailed inspection of the paper trail finds that the work claimed for was covered by an all-inclusive fee.

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Press Releases

Special Reports

Land reform still a hot potato

special reports - 24 Nov 2020

The land has got to belong to all the people of South Africa, and many believe that there’s no other mechanism for that except expropriation

Special Reports

UP chemical pathology scientists develop ground-breaking nanobodies for Covid-19 detection and therapy

special reports - 24 Nov 2020

Nanobodies are smaller than conventional antibodies and easier to work with so they are ideal for good cheap sensitive rapid tests for Covid-19

Special Reports

Inclusion as learned experience in higher education

special reports - 23 Nov 2020

Understanding the complexity of intersections between oppressions relating to race and gender is key to any commitment to creating a culture of inclusion and social justice

Special Reports

Local government in crisis: how it can be fixed

special reports - 20 Nov 2020

Local governments are supposed to promote non-racial development, in a decentralised manner, but the reality does not match up

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Covid-19 accelerates adoption of technology by the African property sector

special reports - 20 Nov 2020

It’s not the technology itself that is valuable, it’s the opportunities that it creates: this may be the perfect time for reinvention

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BE 1 OF 8 LUCKY PEOPLE TO DRIVE OFF WITH R80 000

special reports - 19 Nov 2020

From 23 to 30 November 2020, simply purchase any BMW bearing the number “8” and you could be one of eight lucky people to drive off with R80 000

Special Reports

Introducing Sabinet Judgments

special reports - 18 Nov 2020

A well-rounded view of reported and unreported judgments supplemented by an advanced system to enable users to rapidly find the information they require

Special Reports

The Southern Africa Tuberculosis and Health Systems Support Research and Publication Interventions

special reports - 13 Nov 2020

The project places emphasis on rolling out a standardised package of occupational health services and mining safety standards across four countries