by ANDREW TRENCH I had some fun this week with the raging debate over Brett Murray’s artwork. It provided the perfect opportunity to have a go using something called “sentiment analysis” to get some insight into an unfolding story. Right! What the heck is “sentiment analysis” and how on earth could this possibly be used… Read More »
The volume of twitter tweets on the back of news of the defacing of the Brett Murray painting of President Jacob Zuma is growing at an incredible pace. See this map below to track the tweets as they are happening and from where. Click and drag the map around to see how the tweets are… Read More »
Jacques Dommisse The 17th century Manor House and Iziko Museum at Groot Constantia was robbed over the weekend of heritage pieces estimated to be valued at around R50 million . Chinese porcelain estimated to be worth millions of rand is missing and M24i have established that it is the third similar incident in South Africa… Read More »
Thanduxolo Jika The national government’s intervention team in Limpopo has scrapped a R320 million textbook tender which was controversially awarded to a company controlled by former government mandarins. Anis Karodia, the National Basic Education Department’s intervention team head, terminated the contract with EduSolutions which also has significant contracts in Gauteng and other provinces. The wrangle… Read More »
It cost over R400,000 to create a matric graduate last year. Read this and some other startling facts in our special report here
Jacques Dommisse Hundreds of young South African women are being recruited to donate their eggs for payment in India, fuelling a push for an official investigation. The Southern African Society of Reproductive Medicine and Gynaecological Endoscopy (SASREG) confirmed it has reported complaints about this practice to the national health department for further investigation. SASREG’s Dr… Read More »
Jacques Pauw The front company allegedly used by crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli and other agents to plunder a secret “slush fund” was started by the apartheid-era police. Universal Technical Enterprises (UTE) – a police front company – was established in 1988 by the security branch and used by its bomb-making unit to buy equipment… Read More »
Afrikaans »
Boeremag bring regstappe oor meeluister-bewerings
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 »
Business »
"We always thought something stank"
Lawrence Mavundla has always been aware something may be stinking in the construction industry. “We have always suspected there is something and these cartels are colluding and fixing prices,” the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce president told m24i in the wake of the tender-fixing scandal. He says the government should blacklist companies found guilty… Read More »
Consumer »
Tax statistics reveal SA’s gender wealth gap
ATHANDIWE SABA THE wealth gap among men and women in South Africa explodes the richer South Africans become with women making up only seven out of every 100 people who earn over R5m a year, tax statistics reveal. In fact, figures for the 2010 tax year, the latest available and compiled by the South African… Read More »
Crime »
Revealed – the true scale of SA service delivery protests [with original offical data]
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 »
Data »
Revealed: SA’s toddler boomtowns
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 »
documents »
NIPP performance report 2008
This is the report of the Department of Trade and Industry which provides an accounting to the legislature of how the arms deal companies have met their offset commitments.
Education »
State flip-flops over Matric raw results release
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 »
Environment »
Former gymnastics champ sues minister for R2m
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 »
featured »
SA agents hunt Rwandan hit squads
Jacques Pauw The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) is hunting down Rwandan death squads who have been dispatched to South Africa to assassinate an exiled general who is allegedly plotting the overthrow of the regime of President Paul Kagame. City Press has learnt that the NIA has over the past year thwarted several attempts by Rwandan… Read More »
Health »
Passage to India: Inquiry as SA women flock to donate their eggs
Jacques Dommisse Hundreds of young South African women are being recruited to donate their eggs for payment in India, fuelling a push for an official investigation. The Southern African Society of Reproductive Medicine and Gynaecological Endoscopy (SASREG) confirmed it has reported complaints about this practice to the national health department for further investigation. SASREG’s Dr… Read More »
Investigations »
"We always thought something stank"
Lawrence Mavundla has always been aware something may be stinking in the construction industry. “We have always suspected there is something and these cartels are colluding and fixing prices,” the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce president told m24i in the wake of the tender-fixing scandal. He says the government should blacklist companies found guilty… Read More »
Legal »
Julius Malema on cabbages, tomatoes and a looming court battle
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 »
media »
How SA Olympic boss changed his tune over communications deal
JEANNE VAN DER MERWE and ATHANDIWE SABA SOUTH Africa’s Olympic president Gideon Sam misled the public about a lucrative communications contract awarded to media firm Highbury Safika Media (HSM). In April, Sam – president of the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee – said on Radio Today and DStv that HSM had tendered for… Read More »
military »
Photos of weapons and text messages emerge in alleged right-wing plot
JACQUES PAUW A government agent photographed weapons he claims alleged far right militants wanted to use to in a plot assassinate President Jacob Zuma and other top ANC leaders. The far-right alleged conspirators, who were arrested by the police this week and who have been charged with terrorism and treason, also allegedlt boasted in cell… Read More »
Politics »
Revealed – the true scale of SA service delivery protests [with original offical data]
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 »
Social »
Revealed – the true scale of SA service delivery protests [with original offical data]
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 »
Special Reports »
Heatmap – Cost per pupil by province [1999-2011]
This is a heat map showing the cost per pupil per province over the last 12 years. Click on a province for an info window with the historical data.
special reports – education »
Heatmap – Cost per pupil by province [1999-2011]
This is a heat map showing the cost per pupil per province over the last 12 years. Click on a province for an info window with the historical data.
Sport »
How SA Olympic boss changed his tune over communications deal
JEANNE VAN DER MERWE and ATHANDIWE SABA SOUTH Africa’s Olympic president Gideon Sam misled the public about a lucrative communications contract awarded to media firm Highbury Safika Media (HSM). In April, Sam – president of the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee – said on Radio Today and DStv that HSM had tendered for… Read More »
Uncategorized »
The farmworkers’ champion who is a business owner
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 »
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