A company co-owned by a close aide to PW Botha helped Iran evade American sanctions by sneaking a James Bond-style speedboat through South Africa.
The Gupta family, friends of President Jacob Zuma, were key to the agreement to sell prospecting rights at Sishen to steel conglomerate ArcelorMittal.
President’s son and deputy president’s girlfriend hit the jackpot in ArcelorMittal empowerment deal.
Congolese fugitive from justice Nozi Mwamba was arrested in Johannesburg last week based on an international arrest warrant.
Agriculture Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson flexed her muscles to push for the import of antelope for a company linked to an aide’s boyfriend.
Study shows local and provincial authorities were overruled and the stadium deal was done before
the DA could thwart the Fifa president’s wishes.
The Gupta group, regarded as close to President Jacob Zuma, is considering launching a daily newspaper that sources say will be broadly sympathetic to the ANC. Speaking on behalf of his brother, Atul, who is abroad, Tony Gupta said: “Yes, there is a feasibility study we are doing — we have hired some advisers, but […]
Sepp Blatter and Thabo Mbeki intervened to have Cape Town’s Green Point Stadium built — at R3-billion more expensive than two available alternatives.
Unexplained deposits in Joe Modise’s bank account add to the mounting questions about the arms deal.
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/ 19 February 2010
In a development that could further delay the Brett Kebble murder trial, the prosecutions boss is weighing a request to replace the prosecutors.
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/ 22 January 2010
In a new twist to the axing of Armscor boss Sipho Thomo, it is alleged that he dropped a penalty due from a helicopter supplier.
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/ 16 October 2009
A R4-million defamation case is about to highlight important questions about mega-contracts flowing through Gauteng’s economic development agencies.
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/ 27 September 2009
Former MTN SA chief executive Maanda Manyatshe appealed against a high court judgment dismissing his attempt to gag the <i>M&G</i> three years ago.
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/ 7 February 2009
A corruption case against the man tipped for Cabinet has been dropped, but there is evidence of conflicts of interest.
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/ 1 February 2008
When Jackie Selebi steps into the Randburg Regional Court on Friday, he faces a case cast in a matrix of evidence that appears solid enough to withstand the vacillations of Glen Agliotti, the prosecution’s fragile star informant. He also faces the ghost of Brett Kebble. Unlike most accused, Selebi knows the details of the case against him.
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/ 18 January 2007
It’s official: Glenn Agliotti is the "Landlord" accused by the Scorpions of being a boss in one of the country’s "most prominent syndicates" involved in the smuggling of drugs and other contraband. Agliotti appeared in the Alberton Regional Court on Thursday to be joined as an accused in a R200-million drugs trial.
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/ 15 December 2006
"He was the tungsten tip of the drill bit, and Kebble was the great, flabby weight behind it." That’s how one Brett Kebble associate who dealt with John Stratton described the man who was regarded as Kebble’s right-hand man and the nearest thing the mining magnate had to a friend.
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/ 10 November 2006
Was the government swayed by diplomatic expediency and ruling-party funding needs when it granted strategic mineral rights to an African National Congress business front and Russia’s third-richest man? Vicki Robinson and Stefaans Brümmer report.
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/ 1 September 2006
The homeless man who was arrested on Wednesday after claiming in a radio interview to have witnessed Brett Kebble’s murder, earlier gave the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> a description of the "killer". Lesego Amos Yekane (24) was interviewed by the <i>M&G</i> on Tuesday. He described the alleged killer as a "huge man with a bald head".
The Donen Commission investigating abuse of the Iraqi oil-for-food programme is on the comeback trail. It is demanding testimony including how African National Congress secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe intervened with Saddam Hussein’s regime on behalf of the central figure in the Oilgate saga, Sandi Majali.
What is it that "Silver Fox" Kessie Naidu told former justice minister Penuell Maduna and Scorpions boss Leonard McCarthy about the "encrypted fax" detailing Jacob Zuma’s alleged bribe demand — but that neither will disclose? Affidavits detail extraordinary off-the-record negotiations between the state and French arms group Thales.
The Scorpions appear to have knocked over the first domino in their bid to probe the criminal networks surrounding the late Brett Kebble. Last Friday, Directorate of Special Operations spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi announced the arrest of five people suspected of being part of an international drug syndicate.
National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi is linked to shadowy figures who were associated with slain businessman Brett Kebble. A <i>Mail & Guardian</i> investigation has revealed a web of relationships connecting Selebi to Clinton Nassif and Glenn Agliotti, who worked with Kebble on a series of "security" and other projects.
There are fears that the Donen commission investigating South African abuse of the Iraq oil-for-food programme may not regain momentum after public hearings were abandoned as they were about to start. The commission backed down in the face of a Pretoria High Court challenge by a witness it had subpoenaed to testify first. Bad drafting of its powers left it little choice.
As Germany mounts the first prosecution targeting an international nuclear contraband ring, details are emerging of how South Africa was a key base for supplying pariah states. Authorities as far afield as Malaysia, Switzerland, Germany, Pakistan and South Africa were jolted into action after October 2003 when a cargo ship, the <i>BBC China</i>, was searched at an Italian port in a United States-British intelligence operation.
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/ 31 January 2006
On Wednesday, the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> filed a court challenge to Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana’s findings on the Oilgate scandal, seeking to have his report overturned and redone. Last July, Mushwana released the report that avoided probing parts of the scandal, but exonerated government and the parastatals involved.
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/ 20 January 2006
The Presidency has slammed the door on further questions about Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s trip to the United Arab Emirates.
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/ 9 December 2005
The government has yet to decide how to handle the fallout from the United Nations inquiry into the world body’s controversial Iraqi "oil-for-food" programme.
The report of the UN Independent Inquiry Committee, released in October, points fingers at thousands of companies for having allegedly flouted provisions of UN sanctions against the government of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
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/ 14 October 2005
Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils this week lashed out at Billy Masetlha, the director general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), over Masetlha’s "attack on the integrity" of the Scorpions. Kasrils fired the broadside at his DG in a statement released to the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>.
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/ 16 September 2005
PetroSA, the state-owned enterprise at the centre of the Oilgate scandal, admitted to the auditor general that it should have conducted a due diligence investigation before advancing R15-million to Imvume Management in December 2003.
As the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> revealed earlier this year, Imvume passed on R11-million of the advance to the African National Congress, which was suffering a cash-crunch at the time.
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> will launch a high court application to review and set aside or substitute Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana’s findings on the Oilgate scandal — not only his criticism of the <i>M&G</i>, but on the substantive findings too.