Analysis

Crime statistics: who are we to believe?

SAPS and Stats SA figures are wildly different

Social grant fraud: SASSA needs to act, not deny

Instead of wrongly accusing us of illegal hacking, SASSA should take urgent action to fix the extremely serious problems we described

We discovered massive fraud in SASSA’s grant system

SASSA needs to disclose how this happened and the scale of the problem

Why the Woolies boss was paid 1,300 times as much as a shopfloor worker

Report by Just Share exposes pay gaps in the retail and wholesale sector

SA bank executives coined it during Covid

Banks paid out hefty bonuses, though performance targets were not met

Universal Basic Income Grant: What should a payment system look like?

South Africa can learn from Brazil

Universal Basic Income Grant: who will profit?

There are risks in using a private company to pay the grants

Universal Basic Income Grant: who should run it?

The sad history of Net1 and the Post Office shows that this is an important question

Constitutional Court: where are the judgments?

The Court has not delivered a single judgment this year

The lawyers and auditors who cashed in on corruption at PRASA

Audit firm to be investigated by regulator

The looters living it up from PRASA millions

Makhensa Mabunda and Auswell Mashaba were at the heart of the corrupt deals

The European company that profited from corruption at PRASA

Vossloh made R1.8-billion from a dodgy deal and has not paid back a cent

Google and Facebook are killing local news

No sign of accountability for Thabo Bester’s escape

Eight months since the highly publicised Parliamentary hearing, little action has been taken by Parliament or Correctional Services

Learning from Israel’s past Gaza Strip invasions

“A political resolution that addresses the roots of the conflict is the only way to defend Israel’s borders and citizens” writes a former Israeli soldier

Housing in South Africa: How have we done since 1994?

We’ve made progress but the quality of the data is poor, especially the latest census