In a bumpy backstreet in Mthatha stands the offices of the ex-mineworkers’ union, founded in 1987. There are seven stacks of dusty files in one corner, each the height of an adult, containing compensation applications and other paperwork for each of the union’s members in the Eastern Cape. “About 18 000 members,” says Zanele Mbuyisa, a […]
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/ 25 February 2011
Three more African National Congress politicians received benefits from the group that leases property to the government.
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/ 24 February 2011
Trifecta director Christo Scholtz is embroiled in a legal battle with his ex-business partner’s widow, who claims he cheated her family out of her dead husband’s stake in the company. At the time of his death in a plane crash near Kimberley in March 2009, Sarel Breda’s Shosholoza Trust held 55% of Trifecta Investment Holdings […]
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/ 18 February 2011
Former employee hands over six files of documents to M&G and the police
Parliamentary committee chairperson Yolanda Botha apparently received kickbacks from a company to which she assigned tenders worth more than R50m.
The Masai Mara is Kenya’s iconic game reserve, with almost inconceivable numbers of wildlife grazing, hunting, mating, birthing and dying across mile upon mile of undulating savannah.
The seeds of the crisis in Jo’burg’s billing system were sown five years ago when a R208m tender was awarded to an inexperienced company.
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/ 21 January 2011
Hans Joachim Klaar has spent most of the past 11 years on the high seas, fleeing from justice. Accused of raping a Pietermaritzburg woman in 1996, the Swiss national was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment by a Durban magistrate in December 1998. Klaar appealed to the Pietermaritzburg High Court and in August 1999 his sentence […]
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/ 17 December 2010
Subcontractor ‘has documents’, but Trifecta denies renovations were paid by another project.
Contradictory statements issued by department of health officials about the controversial Tara KLamp, leaves many scratching their heads.