JEANNE VAN DER MERWE Statistician-General Pali Lehohla yesterday revealed that two top Statistics SA officials involved in the R3,4 billion national Census have faced disciplinary charges over alleged irregularities which could have bungled the entire survey. The admission comes amid months of criticism from some statisticians who question the validity of the final count and… Read More »

ATHANDIWE SABA and JEANNE VAN DER MERWE South Africa’s wave of service delivery protests is far greater than previously imagined with official police data revealing more than 3 000 protests in the past four years. Media24 Investigations used access to information law to ask the South African Police Service for official records showing service delivery… Read More »

THANDUXOLO JIKA LIMPOPO businessman Lesiba Gwangwa, a co-accused in Julius Malema’s corruption trial, fabricated employees to win a multi-million rand state tender, court papers claim. The allegations are contained in a PriceWaterhouseCoopers forensic report compiled by the auditing firm’s director Trevor White and presented to a judge in a recent North Gauteng High court application… Read More »

THANDUXOLO JIKA and JACQUES PAUW Nearly R12m – that’s the pile of cash the state claims Julius Malema, the former ANC Youth League leader and now corruption-accused, got from his Limpopo cronies. And, more than a month after Julius Malema was charged with money laundering in September last year, Malema still received cash payments from… Read More »

JEANNE VAN DER MERWE and THANDUXOLO JIKA THE State is flip-flopping over the release of the raw matric subject marks for the 2012 examinations. Umalusi, which is responsible for standardising the matric results prior to release, has provided unadjusted examination scores to Media24 Investigations for the past two years. But now it says this was… Read More »

THANDUXOLO JIKA Former ANC Youth League firebrand Julius Malema, facing criminal prosecution and a R16m tax bill, says he is now treated like a leper by those who once supported him. Speaking exclusively to M24i this week at his farm, recently attached by the Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU), outside of Polokwane in Limpopo, Malema spoke… Read More »

JACQUES PAUW AND THANDUXOLO JIKA Former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema faces bankruptcy in his battle with the SA Revenue Service as his friends and allies abandon him in droves. Malema spoke this week of his troubles with the law and how he was now treated by a leper by those whom he had… Read More »