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A total train-smash: the R16bn ‘Gupta premium’
SUSAN COMRIE

A total train-smash: the R16bn ‘Gupta premium’

Analysis: How the Transnet locomotive acquisition went from R38.6bn to R54.5bn.

  • Susan Comrie
  • Sam Sole And
20 min read
Media mogul Iqbal Survé. (Lerato Maduna/Gallo)
CRAIG MCKUNE

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.

  • Sam Sole And
  • Sam Sole
  • Craig Mckune
14 min read
House of spooks: Spies work on the 11th floor of the ANC’s Luthuli House.
SUSAN COMRIE

Fraser goes “rogue”

Intelligence boss blocked investigation, conducted campaign of intimidation, claims Inspector General.

  • Sam Sole And
  • Susan Comrie
8 min read
Research at Stellenbosch University looks at the link between viral infections and cardiovascular disease.

[EXCLUSIVE] How Brian Molefe ‘helped’ Gupta Optimum heist

New evidence that Molefe helped the Guptas grab a mine – and how Jacob Zuma shafted the then mining minister after, he says, he refused to play along

  • Sam Sole And
  • Susan Comrie
19 min read
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.

  • Sam Sole And
  • Sam Sole
  • Craig Mckune
15 min read
Sagarmatha said its listing was the most scrutinised in South Africa’s history.
GAUTENG HEALTH DEPARTMENT

Sekunjalo Group’s link to health scandal

One of the group’s affiliates is implicated in a probe into a tender for an information system for Gauteng

  • Sam Sole And
  • Sam Sole
  • Craig Mckune
5 min read