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Micah Reddy

Before joining the amaBhungane team in 2017, Reddy was the national coordinator for media freedom and diversity at the Right2Know Campaign. He holds a Masters in African Studies from Oxford University and a BA Honours in History from Wits University

The curfew reveals to us a state that is willing to act irrationally. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Police use sjamboks and rubber bullets to enforce Hillbrow lockdown

In one of South Africa’s most densely populated suburbs, the national lockdown is being implemented with force

Nine members of the al-Baisi family were killed in 2015 in Saudi-led coalition airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Ibb, Yemen. Saudi Arabia claimed poor targeting of its weapons. (Adil Al-Sharee/Anadolu Agency)

The business of war in Yemen­ – how Saudi dollars keep the arms flowing

No one, not even seemingly principled South Africa, can resist selling weapons to a warring, rogue state

Critics of Numsa’s secretary general, Irvin Jim, allege the union is drifting from its worker base and risks being captured by its investment arm to become a vehicle for petty bourgeois accumulation. (Gallo)

Numsa cornered by capital?

Intrigue and internal divisions are dogging South Africa’s largest union, and threatening to destabilise the federation to which it belongs

Responding to the Sowetan, Vavi said the latest complaint was made and resolved last year. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Vavi harassment complaint went ‘nowhere’

This latest allegation relates to incidents in late August and early September 2017 in which Vavi is said to have harassed and later groped a woman

Pelindaba nuclear facility

Another nuclear safety scare at Pelindaba as management fumbles

Whistleblowers have accused the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation of sidelining qualified staff in favour of inexperienced technicians.

Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille.
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Mashaba fiddles as roads agency burns

Mismanagement and dodgy contracts at Joburg city’s roads agency, and a lack of political will to tackle those problems, are only making matters worse.

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Zuma-linked spies ‘capture’ key airports service

When you next board an aircraft in Southern Africa, spare a thought for the turmoil at the Air Traffic and Navigation Services

Long walk: Many schoolchildren walk kilometres to school

Is a nuclear success story about to be snuffed out?

Cash-strapped Necsa has set its sights on a subsidiary’s rainy day fund despite the subsidiary, NTP Radioisotopes’s own need for the cash.

Alexcor coffer dam

Shortcomings of SA laws exposed through controversial shoreline mining on west coast

Mining giants Alexkor and West Coast Resources have been using the potentially highly destructive ‘coffer dam mining’ method to mine diamonds.

As the world mourns Nelson Mandela

Paradise Papers: Mandela’s Isle of Man trust mystery

The leaks reveal that a trust was apparently set up by Nelson Mandela’s lawyer under Isle of Man law. It’s a curious tale.

Street hawkers sell their wares to passing pedestrians on a road near the headquarters of the South African Reserve Bank in Pretoria.

Mauritius the apple of Aspen’s eye

Tax leaks reveal the pharmaceutical giant owns 71 offshore companies, all registered in low-tax Mauritius.

Sex dolls’ inventors say they can cure loneliness and help elderly men who lack female companionship.

Paradise Papers: Spar blames the rand

Tax leaks reveal how the South African retailer set-up an offshore company in the Isle of Man last year.

While their fans claim they are victims of a knee-jerk fear of anything new

Paradise Papers: Ramaphosa’s Shanduka deal flop

Shanduka got involved in an energy project that turned out to be a real tangle, with Appleby red-flagging a couple of the players along the way.

The newly appointed premier of Gauteng

Paradise in Mauritius

The low-tax island has emerged as a key hub in offshore business dealings with Africa.

Dummies’ guide to the Paradise Papers

Dummies’ guide to the Paradise Papers

What you need to know about the latest tax haven leak.

A rare black rhino.

Exposed: The South Africans named in the Paradise Papers

The likes of Spar, Illovo Sugar and several South African banks have been named in the leaked trove of financial records.

Paradise Papers: SA names aplenty in massive new tax haven leak

Paradise Papers: SA names aplenty in massive new tax haven leak

Data in the tax leak dates from 1950 to 2016 and includes emails, and loan agreements, from more than 25,000 entities in 180 countries.

‘Like many stalwarts of his generation

Govin Reddy fought for the freedom of people and the media

He was an activist not only during apartheid but also after the elections that ushered in democracy

Cosatu Head Office

How Gupta associates ‘fleeced’ Cosatu in HQ deal

Evidence suggests an influential Gupta associate and a future Eskom acting CEO colluded in a deal that fleeced the trade union federation of millions.

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#GuptaLeaks: UK PR firm tried to push ‘white monopoly capital’ agenda

Emails support claims in earlier leaked report that Bell Pottinger tried to portray the Gupta and Zuma families as victims of a racist backlash.