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The scandal spreads

This week, the M&G brings you — in full — the story we had to black out a fortnight ago after being gagged write Stefaans Brümmer and Sam Sole.

Senior Scorpion probed

A top Scorpions official, Jeffrey Ledwaba, one of three czars heading the elite police unit, is being investigated in connection with allegations of the plundering of hundreds of…

The ANC’s Oilgate

A M&G investigation into covert party funding has revealed how R11-million of public money was diverted to ANC coffers ahead of the 2004 elections.

ANC Youth League in dodgy new deal

Two companies with strong links to the African National Congress Youth League and the ANC in the Western Cape have emerged as beneficiaries of a disputed deal involving prime…

Steve Mabona’s dirty legacy

A new probe into the finances of the Mpumalanga Department of Public Works, Roads and Transport has found that the department is riddled with rot. Two probes last year — one by…

Oh dear, minister, you fibbed

New details have emerged of the cosy relationship between Walter Senoko, the businessman who paid Mpumalanga public works minister Steve Mabona R1-million, and the minister…

M&G overcomes gag

This edition of the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> contains an article on the Steve Mabona saga which a judge barred us from publishing last week. This is after a new attempt to gag the…

The dirtiest politician in SA?

Mpumalanga’s influential public works minister, Steve Mabona, privately received payments totalling R1-million from a company that had contracts with his department. The money,…

More terror for Lekota

Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota, who faces a disciplinary inquiry by the African National Congress for failing to declare his business interests, is also facing a probe by the…

A dry winter season as hopes for rain recede

A severe drought is ravaging large areas of Limpopo province and there is little hope in sight for any immediate relief. The severity of the drought is having a devastating…

‘I knew right away that it was a bomb’

When a bomb blast ripped through a mosque in Soweto on Wednesday, shattering windows and forcing parts of the lush building to crash, Toto Ndlovu (32) thought a car had just…

Blasts linked to treason plot

Evidence is mounting that those responsible for this week’s bombings are from the same far right networks that spawned an alleged treason plot earlier this year. Authorities…