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

Gupta link in R647m train deal

Evidence now shows that Salim Essa helped two locomotive manufacturers to secure benefit in the largest locomotive acquisition in Transnet’s history.

The Neotel building in Midrand.

Transnet scandal: Ex-Gupta man shows his hand

Homix says its CEO Ashok Narayan had attempted to convince investigators that it had provided Neotel with services commensurate with charges.

Former president Thabo Mbeki

How much did Mbeki and Blatter know?

What did Thabo Mbeki and Sepp Blatter know about – and do to facilitate – the $10-million "bribe" allegedly to win the 2010 World Cup vote?

Kill site: Glebelands hostel is the crime scene of at least 21 murders since February 2014.

Glebelands: Fingers pointed at untouchable ‘serial killer’

Still no convictions, despite statements from 50 victims in which the same perpetrator is named.

A source close to the Central Energy Fund board told amaBhungane that a process to appoint Dudu Myeni to its board is under way.

Is Myeni’s next move to the Central Energy Fund?

A new board position in a state-owned entity might be on the cards for embattled South African Airways chairperson Dudu Myeni.

Questions the ANC may rue asking

When building started at Nkandla in 2009, the public works ­department estimated the upgrade would cost R28-million.

Bozizé in frantic plea for weapons

Deployment of SA troops to CAR followed ‘urgent requests’.

Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi.

South Africa’s heftiest felines for 2012

From President Fat Cat’s stinky Nkandla deal to the Capitec cats who creamed it fat cats risked obesity in 2012, write the amaBhungane reporters.

A part of the tar road that runs past the homestead of President Jacob Zuma near Nkandla.

M&G asks court for access to Nkandla money details

The M&G Centre for Investigative Journalism (amaBhungane) filed papers on Thursday

Vivian Reddy says he has always regarded it as his duty to help struggle veterans.

Nkandla: Reddy an unapologetic benefactor

Without Vivian Reddy’s provision of surety, FNB would not have granted a loan for President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla property.

Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir and three others are to appear in court to be charged with the murder of businessman Sam Issa.

M&G fights to access Krejcir hearing

In the public interest, the media is battling to override Radovan Krejcir’s confidentiality status.

Court documents show that President Jacob Zuma received a home loan from First National Bank.

Public works ducks questions on Zuma’s Nkandla upgrade

The public works department has missed the deadline for answering an access-to-information request by the M&G Centre for Investigative Journalism.

Nkandla: home is where the heart is

Nkandla: home is where the heart is

President Jacob Zuma’s private homestead is the site of lavish upgrades at the taxpayer’s expense.

Motaung case linked to ANC feuds

Party sources claim the fraud charges brought against him are largely politically motivated because he is a Jacob Zuma supporter.

A Ukrainian airliner carrying at least 170 people crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran on Wednesday

Mystery of the not-so-missing agent

Man ‘disappeared’ after recovering R28-million for the Swazi government — but was easy to find

Mswati jet’s origins shrouded in fog

Prior to delivery, the MD-87 passed through firms specialising in ownership subterfuge

Dodgy origins cloud Mswati’s ‘birthday’ jet

Dodgy origins cloud Mswati’s ‘birthday’ jet

The luxury jet given to Swazi King Mswati III as a birthday gift appears to have undergone "aircraft laundering" to conceal its origins.

Swazi king’s jet triggers turbulence

Swazi king’s jet triggers turbulence

The origin of the costly "gift" — a DC-9 aircraft — is a mystery, but activists say it was bought for King Mswati III by Swaziland’s government.

Dictator’s son in Swaziland to party

The son of Equatorial Guinea’s president, who is also a government minister accused of corruption, has been getting cozy with the Mswati clan.

Crossed lines and a king’s tantrum

Swaziland’s King Mswati III has become embroiled in a row with the telecommunications parastatal over the direction of telephony in the kingdom.