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Sabelo Skiti is an investigative journalist.

The SIU’s report recommends that officials at the master’s offices are referred to the courts for criminal prosecution.
BINA MASUKU

SIU targets 15 in master of high court

As the Special Investigating Unit starts pushing for criminal and disciplinary cases, officials in the master’s offices start revealing crucial evidence

  • Athandiwe Saba
  • Sabelo Skiti
7 min read
Moneymongers: Deputy master Bina Masuku and her boyfriend Elvis Kgosiemang, who posed as a lawyer, appear in the Mbombela magistrate’s court in September. Photo: Stefan de Villiers
BINA MASUKU

SIU probes how master of the high court fleeces the poor

While the SIU delves into dozens of allegations of fraud, corruption and misconduct against officials at the master of the high court, many families have been left destitute…

  • Sabelo Skiti
9 min read
Outlier: The embattled public works department’s minister, Patricia de Lille, is the only non-ANC member in the cabinet, and certainly no stranger to controversy. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
BEITBRIDGE BORDER POST

Toxic power struggle hits public works

With infighting and allegations of corruption and poor planning, the department’s top management looks like a scene from ‘Survivor’

  • Sabelo Skiti
6 min read
SANDF members patrol Alexandra on operations to police residents during the Covid-19 national lockdown. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

SANDF hid R200m expenditure on ‘Covid’ drug it can’t use

Military health officials are puzzled by the defence department importing a drug that has not been approved for treating coronavirus symptoms from Cuba

  • Sabelo Skiti
5 min read
SANDF members patrol Alexandra on operations to police residents during the Covid-19 national lockdown. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
BANDILE MASUKU

SANDF hid R200m expenditure on ‘Covid’ drug it can’t use

Military health officials are puzzled by the defence department importing a drug that has not been approved for treating coronavirus symptoms from Cuba

  • Sabelo Skiti
5 min read
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
BANKS

Too broke for Mboweni to budget

The scramble to find cash for an SAA bailout, Covid-19 grants and civil servants’ demands force postponement of mini-budget

  • Sabelo Skiti
  • Thando Maeko
6 min read
The air force’s Oryx and Rooivalk helicopters, which are manufactured by Denel. File photo by Born/Gallo Images/The Times & Sebabatso Mosamo/Sunday Times
AIRBUS HELICOPTER

SAA bailout raises more questions

As the government continues to grapple with the troubles facing the airline, it would do well to keep on eye on the impending Denel implosion

  • Sabelo Skiti
7 min read
Trial date: The VBS heist trial is expected to begin only in early 2022. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
ACE MAGASHULE

How graft arrests came together

Learning from its failure to turn the Schabir Shaik conviction into one for Jacob Zuma, the state is now building an effective system for catching thieves. Khaya Koko, Sabelo…

  • Sabelo Skiti
  • Paddy Harper
  • Khaya Koko
7 min read
Recently-appointed Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille says she took on the role to “clean up” the department, in the wake of the recent R1 billion Tottenham Hotspur sponsorship scandal.
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS

De Lille unfazed by acting-DG’s baggage

Latest twist in public works saga suggests minister quashed query into doctored corruption report

  • Sabelo Skiti
4 min read
Last week Eastern Cape high court judge Buyiswa Majiki issued an order interdicting the department, the second respondent, from making any payments on the contract, and the two companies from providing any further services.
DEDEAT

High court puts temporary halt on R500-million tablet tender

State technology agency wins first battle in IT tender war, with court to hear rest of the matter on urgent basis

  • Sabelo Skiti
4 min read
Head of the Hawks Godfrey Lebeya during an interview on September 07, 2018 (Photo by Gallo Images/Sunday Times/Alaister Russell)
ACE MAGASHULE

Hawks eye ANC politicians next

Top cop says more big players will be added to the list of accused as the state prepares to go to court

  • Sabelo Skiti
6 min read
Ronald Lamola. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ABSA

Justice department hit by a costly cyberattack

The theft of R10-million from the Guardian’s Fund account prompts the justice department to freeze all accounts until an audit can determine the extent of the damage

  • Sabelo Skiti
2 min read
Edwin Sodi before his testimony at the Zondo commission.
ARRESTS

Hawks arrest Free State ‘asbestos project’ players

Businessman Edwin Sodi and senior civil servants are among those arrested over the R200-million theft of state funds

  • Sabelo Skiti
3 min read
Potential white elephant: The construction site of Gauteng’s emergency Covid-19 hospital in Carletonville on the West Rand. It has cost about R500-million, but equipment for patients will add to that. (Paul Botes/M&G)
ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI

Emergency hospital: Gauteng’s potential R500-million albatross

Construction of an emergency Covid-19 hospital is running months behind deadline, promising to come online only after Gauteng’s peak

  • Sabelo Skiti
  • Pontsho Pilane
5 min read
An image from Mzwandile Masina’s tweet advocating for the release of Andile Lungisa.
ANC

Convict Andile Lungisa resists calls to quit city council

Former youth league leader Andile Lungisa cites ANC constitution, and argues assault is not corruption in a bid to keep his party membership

  • Sabelo Skiti
4 min read