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Controversy over kickbacks paid to Chancellor House by the engineering multinational surfaced this week.

Hitachi now in African Development Bank’s sights

The company has already coughed up R260m after US SEC charged it over payments to ANC funding front Chancellor House.

Controversy over kickbacks paid to Chancellor House by the engineering multinational surfaced this week.

Hitachi now in AfDB’s sights

The company has already coughed up R260m after US SEC charged it over payments to ANC funding front Chancellor House.

Hitachi fine won’t lighten the darkness

South Africa’s electricity shortage endures as the Chancellor House deal to build Eskom power stations grabs headlines once more.

Chancellor House: R266m for nine years of lies by ANC partner

For nine years, Hitachi told bold-faced lies about its relationship with Chancellor House. A R266m fine later, it will have difficulty doing so again.

Medupi power station during the initial phases of construction.

Hitachi and Chancellor House: How the events unfolded

From suspicion to charges, a timeline of Hitachi’s relationship with the ANC-funding front, Chancellor House.

DA: Hitachi settlement proves Medupi is ‘rotten to the core’

Hitachi has reportedly reached a settlement with US authorities to quash a corruption case related to dealings with ANC-front Chancellor House.

Chancellor House was reportedly paid a ‘success fee’ after Hitach Power Africa’s bid was given the green light.

ANC front bids for power station

Despite party policy and an investigation, Chancellor House is again trying to cash in on state contracts.

Police at the Maloma colliery.

Striking Swazi miners sound Marikana alarm

Striking workers at a Swazi mine co-owned by ANC-linked investment company Chancellor House and King Mswati III fear "a second Marikana".

Concern about the spike of unsecured lending in South Africa has resulted in calls for heightened regulation.

ANC: Banning party investment arms not the answer

The banning of political party investment arms won’t solve the issue of party funding, the ANC says.

ANC treasurer general Zweli Mkhize.

For all its noise, Chancellor House might have to go

The time might have come for the ANC to reconsider its investment arm Chancellor House as a commercial venture, says treasurer general Zweli Mkhize.

Blurred lines: Chancellor House has won several lucrative tenders from the government.

ANC’s Chancellor House lands new deal

Despite the heated outcry over a previous power station tender, the ANC’s business arm has gone on to benefit from a multibillion-rand Eskom deal.

ANC’s investment in Swaziland ‘immoral’

Cosatu lambastes the ANC’s R25-million stake in a Swazi mining deal, citing bad democratic practices.

ANC stalls over public funding of parties

SA’s democracy is suffering from the absence of transparency and a complete lack of regulation of private funding, argues two analysts.

Chancellor House was reportedly paid a ‘success fee’ after Hitach Power Africa’s bid was given the green light.

Hitachi’s Chancellor House dodging

Hitachi Power Africa fudged key issues this week in a media blitz intended to extricate it from the row over ANC business front Chancellor House.

ANC ‘not investigating’ Chancellor House

The African National Congress (ANC) is not conducting a forensic audit into empowerment deals and tenders that were received by its investment company, Chancellor House, the…