Topic: Corruption

Protest at Parliament goes ahead after last-minute deal with City of Cape Town

Activist organisation #UniteBehind wants MPs to fire former PRASA chair Sfiso Buthelezi

By Mary-Anne Gontsana and Ella Morrison

News | 20 September 2023

Family demands answers after teen’s body disappears from state morgue

Department and police fail to answer questions because they are still investigating three years later

By Warren Mabona

News | 20 September 2023

Lottery official’s bank accounts frozen because of suspicious payments

R32-million paid by hundreds of grassroots organisations into accounts of KZN NLC official and his wife

By Raymond Joseph and Ella Morrison

News | 15 September 2023

Eastern Cape municipality hires manager facing corruption charges

Ntabankulu Local Municipality says it has done nothing wrong, but residents are protesting over the appointment

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

News | 1 September 2023

Zackie Achmat to lead fast against corruption

Activist organisations express frustration at lack of action against corruption-accused Member of Parliament Sfiso Buthelezi

By Ella Morrison

News | 31 August 2023

Lawyer in Amazon controversy caught in qualification lie

Timothy Dunn, an attorney in the River Club dispute, does not have the master’s degree he claims to have

By Steve Kretzmann

News | 29 August 2023

Stop Judge Makhubele from milking the state and delaying justice

State capture-accused officials cannot be allowed to use the State Attorney as an ATM, write Zackie Achmat and Zukiswa Vuka

By Zackie Achmat and Zukiswa Vuka

Opinion | 8 August 2023

Lottery promises to fight corruption

Minister Ebrahim Patel lays out measures that must be implemented

By Raymond Joseph

News | 17 July 2023

R15-million Covid housing project ruined by fraud

Fraud accused in 2020 Talana construction case still to be brought to court

By Bernard Chiguvare

News | 12 July 2023

Former transport minister should be suspended says Parliament’s ethics committee

Joe Maswanganyi “failed to understand his role as the Minister of Transport”

By Liezl Human

News | 15 June 2023

Dodgy Lottery lawyer trapped by his web of lies

Lesley Ramulifho has made contradictory statements under oath to try and explain away the millions he took from lotto grants

By Raymond Joseph and Anton van Zyl

News | 7 June 2023

An advocate charged the state R67k a day for 511 days. He’s been disbarred

“There is no indication that his dishonesty will not reoccur” judges write about Hassan Ebrahim Kajee

By Tania Broughton

Law | 7 June 2023

GroundUp wins court case against the Legal Practice Council

Complaint against Lesley Ramulifho, implicated in Lottery corruption, must be investigated, judge rules

By Tania Broughton

Law | 24 May 2023

Terry Pheto’s house paid for with Lottery money finally sold

A R3.9-million bid was accepted

By Raymond Joseph

Brief | 29 March 2023

Concern in Parliament over slow pace of prosecutions for Lottery corruption

“We hear a lot of investigation this, investigation that, but we don’t see anyone going to jail” says MP

By Raymond Joseph

News | 28 March 2023

Court challenge to SIU findings against Nelson Mandela Bay’s Covid spending fails

The Special Investigating Unit found irregularities in a R26.4-million toilet procurement during the national state of disaster

By Tania Broughton

Law | 15 March 2023