JEANNE VAN DER MERWE While scores of senior government managers are running their own businesses while they should be running the country, they will find it harder to hide their private ventures from the state if the Public Service Commission has its way. The commission is tasked, among other things, with scrutinising the compulsory disclosures… Read More »

JEANNE VAN DER MERWE THE man at the centre of urging Western Cape farmworkers to rise against their bosses is himself a wine business boss. Nosey Pieterse, of the Black Association of the Wine and Spirits Industry (Bawsi), who marched this week through the Boland with striking workers, even has a stake in KWV, one… Read More »

JACQUES PAUW and JACQUES DOMMISSE BUDGET airline 1time ignored a plan which could have returned it to profitability within months, charges an aviation consultant and forensic investigator with access to the airline’s records before it crashed and burned. Christo Ebersöhn, who was appointed by trade union Solidarity in September to assess the viability of the… Read More »

JACQUES PAUW POLICE units at the heart of the Marikana massacre mayhem couldn’t talk to each other because of incompatible radio systems – a technical bungle which played an important role in the high number of deaths. A picture of chaos and confusion has emerged from sources close to the police investigation into the force’s… Read More »

JEANNE VAN DER MERWE and ATHANDIWE SABA SOUTH Africa’s exploding population has given birth to toddler boomtowns – and the most booming of them all is a South African border town. Musina, near the Zimbabwean border, has seen the biggest rise in children aged four and under over the past 10 years, official census data… Read More »

JACQUES PAUW Die veroordeelde Boeremaglede het hul regspanne opdrag gegee om dringende aansoeke te bring om die dekade-lange hofsaak waartydens hul aan hoofverraad skuldig bevind is, nietig te laat verklaar. Dit volg ná Rapport se onthulling vroeër vandeesmaand dat ‘n gewese polisie-offisier, Deon Loots, ‘n beëdigde verklaring gemaak het waarin hy vertel van ongerymdhede tydens… Read More »

JEANNE VAN DER MERWE investigations@media24.com NEARLY R12 of every R100 generated by the South African economy is spent on paying for civil servants – nearly three times as much as Brazil. In the past financial year, our bureaucrats were responsible for costing more than 11% of SA’s gross domestic product, making the SA civil service… Read More »