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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

Media mogul Iqbal Survé. (Lerato Maduna/Gallo)

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.

The upgrade to the road linking Nxamalala to Nkandla and Jacob Zuma’s homestead cost R292-million. Other roads in the Nxamalala area are potholed  and impassable when it rains.

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

We take a look into what to expect in this week’s edition of the Mail & Guardian.

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.

Lifeline: A huge number of South Africans are dependent in some way on people who receive a ­social grant.

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.

De Lille’s case to have the clause reviewed was meant to be heard on Friday

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.

‘I want to have my cake business and at the same time be able to do spa treatments and make-up.’

Bathabile Dlamini’s Game of Chicken

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President Jacob Zuma and Minister of Social Development Bathabile Dlamini during the official opening of the Disability Rights Summit held at Saint Georges Hotel in Centurion.

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.

A traditional sesame oil press powered by camel in Mazar-i-Sharif.

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.

Picture: SASSA Mastercard

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.

Contradictions: Former South African Social Security Agency CEO Virginia Petersen bent over backwards to back a claim by a contractor that it did “extra” work. But their contract and other evidence indicate otherwise. Photo: Flickr.com/GovernmentZA

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

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

Stances vary on nuclear energy being used as a sustainable resource. But the government’s decision and the way it was implemented has fuelled a suspicion of the energy source.

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

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

The strike at the rail, road and pipeline company is continuing after unions and Transnet met until the early hours of Tuesday morning

Transnet’s shady Gupta loan deal

Parastatal paid Gupta associate’s firm tens of millions for a service it could have provided itself or got for a fraction of the price.

South Africans will have to keep their spending to a minimum if they intend on affording expected fuel and electricity price hikes.

How to eat a parastatal like Transnet – chunk by R600m chunk

An amaBhungane investigation into Transnet suggests the hijacking of state-owned enterprises by private interests is worse than originally thought.

Former Eskom chief executive Brian Molefe (Oupa Nkosi)

How to eat a parastatal like Transnet – chunk by R600m chunk

An amaBhungane investigation into Transnet suggests the hijacking of state-owned enterprises by private interests is worse than originally thought.

Fareed Khan, the executive responsible for compliance in enforcement, told the Nugent Commission on Thursday that units’ capacity had been stalled and decreased over the past four years. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
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Sars chief’s mystery stash

Revenue service’s number two Jonas Makwakwa has been recommended for a probe into R1.2m in "suspicious" cash deposits.

Transnet says it can’t afford to pay employees more

Gupta-linked firm’s R167m Transnet Bonanza

For this company, the state rail company is the gift that just keeps giving

The Simandou mountain range is thought to be Africa’s richest iron ore deposit

US probe links Cape tycoon to mining rights bribery in Africa

Politically-linked multimillionaire Walter Hennig has been associated with the bribery of officials in three African countries for mining rights.

President Jacob Zuma and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa stand behind a statue of former President Nelson Mandela outside Parliament in Cape Town

Helen Zille’s adviser and ex-public works head in R190m conflict of interest

Former public works head bought property over the road from a potential commercial development in Sea Point on land slated for affordable housing.

CSIR’s supercomputer tender and the theatre of the absurd that followed it

In a letter, Sibusiso Sibisi reveals a probe by Naledi Pandor into "alleged maladministration and corruption" – claims he’s says he’s never heard of.