Stefaans Brummer

The crime intelligence unit is deployed at the ANC’s conference, leaving the country wide open.

South Africa is accused of putting undue pressure on a weak government to extract an unfair deal.

Three major banks willfully ignored (albeit with gritted teeth) Zuma’s laissez-faire attitude to debt.

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.

Thales allegedly funded Maharaj’s bid to stop Scorpions from getting his wife’s bank records.

Fund management company goes into damage control this week.

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 Democratic Republic of Congo, the elephants now sup at the same table. Since July a government of national unity, agreed during talks at Sun City, reigns over an uneasy, fractional peace.

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?

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 shade. A mass of people marched 10km from Johannesburg’s impoverished Alexandra to upmarket 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. Hundreds of activists converged on Jeppe Regional Court to support comrades charged with public violence.

Irish tax authorities this week signalled they want to pursue scandal-ridden offshore banking group Ansbacher for back taxes — contradicting Ansbacher and its owners, local finance giant FirstRand.

A scandal involving rampant crony capitalism in Ireland has left one top South African banking group exposed to a back-breaking tax bill, and another local bank facing the blacklisting of its directors. The two local groups are FirstRand, owner of First National Bank, and Investec.