THANDUXOLO JIKA EduSolutions – the company at the heart of the Limpopo text book controversy – had a contract valued at between R500m and R700m in Limpopo over this year and next, court papers reveal. The company hit the headlines this weekend with claims by Anis Karodia, the education department administrator appointed by the national… Read More »

JACQUES DOMMISSE Billionaire politician and presidential hopeful Tokyo Sexwale’s relationship with a Western Cape businessman is under scrutiny in the wake of a controversial deal in Guinea. Walter Hennig’s Palladino Capital 2, a company registered in the British Virgin Islands and has close association to Sexwale’s empire, did a $25-million (about R206 million) loan deal… Read More »

Media24 Investigations has been working on the story about  EduSolutions – the company at the centre of the Limpopo textbook delivery controversy which exploded this week – for months now. Here are some details of other reports we have produced. How brother of official who helped decide R320m Limpopo contract got millions by Thanduxolo Jika… Read More »

JEANNE VAN DER MERWE and ATHANDIWE SABA SA’s Olympic body has spent R78 million on preparing Team SA for the London Olympics with R13,8m spent on our medal hopefuls. But, an analysis by Media24 Investigations of available spending statistics released by the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc), shows that not all elite… Read More »

JAQUES PAUW Jacqueline Pienaar had a message this week for her criminal comrades in one of South Africa’s most audacious frauds: “I’ve been to hell and back. But these bastards learnt: don’t mess with me!” This week marked 12 years from the wintery morning in 2000 when the 16-year-old Afrikaans schoolgirl from Johannesburg’s East Rand… Read More »

JACQUES PAUW Intelligence agents have “extracted” a South African woman and her children in a daring and high-risk operation from Pakistan where she was held captive by a syndicate that stole R50 million from SARS. City Press can today exclusively reveal details of the operation to bring back Jacqueline Christine Pienaar and her two children… Read More »

By EDDIE BOTHA A former Springbok gymnast is claiming R2m from the minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries after he and his wife were allegedly assaulted – in full view of their children – by the department’s inspectors on the family farm near Stanford. The claim by Adrian Steyn, the financial director of JobLaw, a… Read More »