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EXCLUSIVE: PwC findings behind the PIC’s Lanseria fight

A confidential draft PwC forensic report obtained by the Mail & Guardian has raised questions about the calculation used to settle the long-running Lanseria Airport dispute,…

More than a year after the fatal Malawi Defence Force plane crash that killed Saulos Chilima, lawmakers have ordered forensic exhumations amid lingering questions over the official findings

Fresh inquiry into Malawi military plane crash to exhume Chilima and eight victims

More than a year after the fatal Malawi Defence Force plane crash that killed Saulos Chilima, lawmakers have ordered forensic exhumations amid lingering questions over the…

Government delegation together with saps officials during the official the opening of a SAPS  forensic laboratory in Durban. Photo: Supplied.

New forensic science laboratory unveiled in KZN as SAPS grapples with severe DNA backlogs

The privately owned facility was presented in Durban on Friday by Dean Macpherson, the minister of public works and infrastructure.

Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s son, was arrested for attempted murder on Thursday after a shooting at his Hyde Park residence

Man implicated by slain Witness D survives Boksburg shooting

Wiandre Pretorius was shot at 16 times and walked away unharmed by what police believe was a targeted hit after he was implicated at the Madlanga Commission

National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola. (SAPS/X)

Three suspects identified in killing of Madlanga commission’s Witness D

Police have detained one of the suspects, who is currently being questioned, national police commissioner Fannie Masemola told journalists

Warning: Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Thembisile Nkadimeng. (Supplied)

‘Officials are looting Msunduzi municipality’

Senior staff were allegedly told ahead of the elections ‘to cough up R5 million or resign’

Msunduzi City Hall. Photo supplied

Angry Msunduzi ratepayers call for a forensic investigation

They have also urged the government to conduct lifestyle audits on councillors and dissolve the troubled municipality This content is restricted to registered users and…

After an inquiry in February 2021 about the report, the M&G finally gained access this week to a 42-page executive summary of the forensic investigation “into the 1 Military Hospital repair and maintenance programme”.
Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Squabbles put army hospital in ICU

1 Military Hospital is in a serious state of disrepair and the report of a forensic investigation into who is to blame for the mess remains under wraps

Eskom’s worst case scenario forecasts almost daily load-shedding during the summer. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Eskom refers employees suspected of contracts graft for criminal investigations

The struggling power utility has updated Parliament on investigations into contracts where more than R4-billion was lost in overpayments

Don Steenkamp

Contractual spat puts justice system in peril

A tech company is holding the justice system to "ransom"

Varsity head gets death threats after announcing fraud probe

The vice-chancellor had promised to rid the Vaal University of Technology of corruption

More SA deaths confirmed in Libya plane crash

More SA deaths confirmed in Libya plane crash

Eleven people with ties to South Africa have so far been identified as among the victims of the Afriqiyah Airways crash in Tripoli.