Stefaans Brummer
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Why spies are flocking to Mangaung
The crime intelligence unit is deployed at the ANC’s conference, leaving the country wide open.
Water deal irks Lesotho’s new rulers
South Africa is accused of putting undue pressure on a weak government to extract an unfair deal.
Of battleships and Nkandla
The financing of the Nkandla project makes it clear that Jacob Zuma’s home is built on shaky foundations of friends and would-be favours.
Banks bent over backwards for Zuma
Three major banks willfully ignored (albeit with gritted teeth) Zuma’s laissez-faire attitude to debt.
Did arms firm pay Mac’s bill?
Thales allegedly funded Maharaj’s bid to stop Scorpions from getting his wife’s bank records.
Guptas ‘bankroll’ Mrs Zuma’s bond
A few months after Zuma and Ngema wed, they went house-hunting.
Regiments deal costs taxpayers many millions
Fund management company goes into damage control this week.
Privacy Bill no threat to bloggers
It is a pity that the media has not given much attention to the positive aspects of the Protection of Personal Information Bill, writes John Jeffery.
Mac Maharaj: This is why M&G must be charged
Presidential spokesperson Mac Maharaj says the key part of his case against the Mail & Guardian is that the newspaper broke the law.
M&G journalists warned of criminal charges
M&G editor-in-chief Nic Dawes and investigative reporters Sam Sole and Stefaans Brummer have been told they are suspects in a criminal investigation.
M&G faces charges over Mac Maharaj
Editor and reporters have been warned that they are suspected of stealing confidential records in a case brought forward by Mac Maharaj.
SA’s war vultures
When the elephants fight, tusk to tusk, it is the grass — the ordinary people — that gets trampled. But where did the elephants get their tusks? In Kinshasa, the capital of the…
Holomisa’s shady partner
What is David Tokoph, a man the government suspects of gunrunning, doing in South Africa? And what is United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa doing at his side?
A new war for the allegiance of the poor
The success of the weekend mass march on Sandton "surprised" the anti-government activists who organised it — and is a wake-up call to the ANC, whose own march was left in the…
‘We’ll take Sandton’
The anti-globalisation lobby fired the first public salvo in its war on the World Summit at a series of demonstrations — and warned it was mobilising for a frontal assault.…