JACQUES PAUW STATE investigators are preparing to swoop on ousted ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema and other suspects in the first of a wave of anti-corruption and tender fraud cases in Limpopo. A national anti-corruption task force – comprising Hawks, tax investigators, asset forfeiture specialists, the National Prosecuting Authority and Treasury officials, is concluding… Read More »

ATHANDIWE SABA THE political advisor for OR Tambo district municipality, serving one of South Africa’s poorest areas, rakes in a R1 million a year salary but no-one – including the man himself- can explain what his job entails. National Treasury data shows Zama Mzamane, the political advisor to mayor Dingaan Myolwa in the council in… Read More »

JEANNE VAN DER MERWE Municipal managers’ salaries are not only hurting ratepayers; they’re also hurting the labour market. Experts this week slated the hefty cost of municipal management teams revealed by a Media24 analysis of treasury data of budgeted municipal salaries. The analysis has shown that for SA’s 30 most expensive councils, managers in smaller… Read More »

THANDUXOLO JIKA and JEANNE VAN DER MERWE Some of the country’s best-paid mayors preside over small municipalities in rural South Africa – and are even earning more than the mayor of Johannesburg’s huge metro. This is the startling picture which emerges from official data comprising nearly 7,000 records Media24 Investigations analysed. (See our What’s Your… Read More »

JEANNE VAN DER MERWE and ATHANDIWE SABA Six of South Africa’s most expensive municipal management teams preside over councils that are in serious financial trouble. These teams – municipal managers and all the managers who report to them – earn massive salaries, making their municipalities among the costliest for taxpayers. But in many cases, their… Read More »

JACQUES PAUW Die gewese Transvaalse rugbyspeler en geswore lid van die Burgerlike Samewerkingsburo (BSB), Calla Botha, skuld die taksman miljoene der miljoene en die balju is besig om sy bates te gryp. Beeld verneem dat die SA Inkomste-diens (SAID) ná ‘n uitgerekte ondersoek en hofgeding ‘n bevel verlede maand bekom het dat Botha R12 miljoen… Read More »

THANDUXOLO JIKA and JEANNE VAN DER MERWE A CONTROVERSIAL former lottery official is accused of splurging Lotto cash on luxury travel and chauffeurs and fiddling his books on a R19m grant. Now the National Lottery Board has launched a law suit claiming back the R19m from a R32.2m grant made to the Jazz Foundation in… Read More »