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 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 »

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 »

JACQUES PAUW The police’s crime intelligence unit allegedly paid a convicted, apartheid saboteur R500,000 as part of a conspiracy to frame and monitor Boeremag treason suspects, former officers claim. The alleged operative, former Civil Cooperation Bureau member, Barry Bawden, has close ties with President Jacob Zuma with Bawden admitting this week that he has a… Read More »

JACQUES PAUW and ATHANDIWE SABA The SA Revenue Service (SARS) has obtained a R16 million judgment against former ANC Youth League (ANCYL) leader Julius Malema. SARS is about to seize property and assets belonging to the controversial politician in Gauteng and Limpopo, Media24 Investigations understands. Malema did not oppose the application and SARS obtained the… Read More »

COMMENT: By ATHANDIWE SABA and ANDREW TRENCH SOME Gauteng MECs claim that they are exempt from speeding laws – because they are like firemen and ambulance drivers. That’s the bizarre response M24i has received from four Gauteng’s MECs in response to our access to information request asking for records relating to speeding fines and accidents… Read More »