Sharp new questions over conflicts of interest have emerged about the controversial private company that secured a "government-to-government" deal to buy Nigerian crude oil.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=15749">DA wants Scorpions to probe oil deal</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=15713">We told you so</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=14927">Oil scandal rocks SA</a>
Last week the Mail & Guardian revealed how a lucrative Nigerian crude oil contract, allocated in 1999 to ”the Republic of South Africa” after lobbying by President Thabo Mbeki, was scooped by a private company registered in the Cayman Islands. However, responses to the exposé leave much to be answered.
Oil scandal rocks SA
Questions remain about how well apartheid-era biological warfare material is secured after a document obtained by the Mail & Guardian shows US agencies negotiated to buy remaining stocks.
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/ 21 February 2003
The African National Congress this week maintained its stony silence on an investment trust run on its behalf by a man accused of peddling influence for shares.
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/ 14 February 2003
Minister of Public Enterprises Jeff Radebe and his director general Dr Sivi Gounden are ”outraged” that the Mail&Guardian should have ”questioned our integrity” in regard to the ill-fated sale of Transnet’s publishing house to African National Congress-linked company Skotaville Press.
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/ 7 February 2003
Jeff Radebe told Transnet to hand a privatisation tender to a company that was patently unsuited to the job – but in which the ruling ANC had an alleged financial stake. Now, after a court battle, the transport parastatal has to pay R57-million in damages.
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/ 7 February 2003
The investigative noose is tightening around Deputy President Jacob Zuma, the Mail & Guardian can reveal.
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/ 6 December 2002
Jacob Zuma and Schabir Shaik, the arms magnate that the Scorpions want to question about the deputy president’s alleged demand for a R500 000-a-year bribe, have been close since struggle days.
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/ 2 November 2002
Evidence is mounting that those responsible for this week’s bombings are from the same far right networks that spawned an alleged treason plot earlier this year.