Is it a coincidence that, after two high-profile murders, the individuals involved phoned police commissioners to tell them about it?
Heavy political muscle may wield the balance of power in the R5?billion Mittal/Kumba stand-off.
There is a question mark over where the proceeds of R120-million in gold sales have gone.
An indictment of GNS — the company linked to Siphiwe Nyanda — has been exposed in a court application to review the findings of a Transnet hearing.
State institutions bent over backwards to finance the woman who bought President Jacob Zuma his private Johannesburg residence.
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/ 26 February 2010
The <i>M&G</i>’s in-depth background research reveals ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema’s business and government connections in Limpopo.
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/ 26 February 2010
The core of Malema’s dossier of people allegedly targeted by the Sars is taken from a report drawn up by former Sars undercover agent Mike Peega.
Is African National Congress Youth League president Julius Malema trying to head off a tax probe by alleging Sars pressure on "Zuma’s people"?
Commitment of post-Zuma security establishment in question as NPA chief ‘reallocates’ prosecutors.
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/ 12 February 2010
So now it’s clear: BAE Systems paid bribes to sell its weapons — and prosecuting bosses in the United Kingdom are as politically pliant as our own.
President Jacob Zuma’s purge of the security services has claimed its most strategic victim: Arthur Fraser, head of a powerful NIA division.
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/ 29 January 2010
The man who facilitated Congolese oil rights shared by the Moseneke family’s Encha Group has been convicted in Belgium as the kingpin of currency.
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/ 29 January 2010
Glenn Agliotti is to ask Meyer Joffe — who is already presiding over the Jackie Selebi case — to step down from hearing Kebble’s murder trial.
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/ 27 November 2009
Will the cool intelligence of our Constitution be enough to temper the hotheads of state security? Don’t count on it.
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/ 20 November 2009
The Moseneke family has Congolese oil rights, which were facilitated by an alleged fraudster extraordinaire. Stefaans Brümmer and Sam Sole report.
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/ 13 November 2009
Armscor chief executive Sipho Thomo’s axing follows hard on the heels of the cancelled Airbus deal.
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/ 11 September 2009
<em>Anthrax War</em> is Bob Coen’s engrossing voyage of discovery into the dark world of chemical and biological warfare.
An <em>M&G</em> probe raises questions about Western Cape police commissioner Mzwandile Petros’s version of events in an urban terror case.
Ngoako Ramatlhodi’s hush-hush participation, while premier of Limpopo, in a property deal raises new questions about his suitability for high office.
President Jacob Zuma’s sponsor is cagey about his company’s middleman activities and offshore account payments. Sam Sole reports.
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/ 12 December 2008
Fana Hlongwane won’t be able to access his R160-million in five foreign bank accounts for a little while.
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/ 28 October 2008
A net of local and international investigations is drawing in on one of the most controversial and influential players in the South African arms deal.
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/ 24 September 2008
Intelligence boss’s government duties, business interests are in clear conflict, write Stefaans Brümmer, Nic Dawes and Sam Sole.
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/ 5 September 2008
Close to R40-billion in damages claims have been lodged against individuals and companies that allegedly abetted Brett Kebble’s corporate fraud.
Eskom’s rapid spending to beat the electricity crisis is spreading largesse in high places.
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/ 11 January 2008
The Scorpions’ investigation of Jackie Selebi raced to a tumultuous and uncertain dénouement this week as the police national commissioner ladled "dirt" on his rivals in an urgent court application to block him being charged — a day after police nabbed the Scorpions advocate leading the Selebi investigation.
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/ 21 December 2007
What a country. Both our president-in-waiting and our police chief separately face the prospect of corruption and racketeering charges; our previous national director of public prosecutions was accused of once being an apartheid-era spy and all but hounded out of office for pursuing the first investigation; our current national director was suspended by the president for pursuing the second, writes Sam Sole.
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/ 6 December 2006
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>The state has given its strongest indication yet that it intends to recharge Jacob Zuma with corruption, media reports said on Wednesday. The National Prosecuting Authority had notified Zuma and the French arms company Thint that it would apply for certain documents to be released by the Mauritian High Court, which is holding them by sealed order.
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/ 20 October 2006
The arrest of controversial Dutch oil tycoon John Deuss has exposed a trail of questionable influence leading to South Africa’s second highest office. The fortunes of Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s political adviser, Ayanda Nkuhlu, are intimately tied to those of Deuss, whose company has seconded him to Mlambo-Ngcuka’s part-time service.
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/ 13 October 2006
Oilgate company Imvume this week stumbled in its Johannesburg High Court bid to unmask the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>’s confidential sources of information. Judge Dabi Khumalo on Tuesday issued a damning judgement on Imvume’s conduct before the start of the hearing, set down for this week, meaning Imvume will be disadvantaged should the matter proceed.
When will the public get its Oilgate money back? Almost two years after Imvume diverted R18-million from a state oil contract — the bulk of it to the ANC — about R12-million remains outstanding. After a history of broken promises and stop-start repayments, oil parastatal PetroSA has instructed attorneys to take action against Imvume.
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/ 22 September 2006
Maanda Manyatshe, boss of cellphone giant MTN South Africa, has been accused of pushing through a deal worth R100‑million — and potentially more than R2‑billion — without a tender process while he was CEO of the Post Office. Manyatshe’s successor at the paraÂstatal, Khutso Mampeule, has laid a criminal complaint against Manyatshe and two other former Post Office executives.