JEANNE VAN DER MERWE A COMPUTER error within the Road Accident Management Corporation, government’s custodian of road accident data, has rendered almost 20 years of national road accident data unusable, sources claim. The corporation is responsible for publishing official road accident statistics and holds official data on the location and circumstances of all fatal and… Read More »
JACQUES PAUW A controversial police general headed the crime intelligence unit’s dirty tricks campaign to plant evidence and evesdrop on the Boeremag treason accused and their lawyers, a former officer claims in sworn statement. The statement claims General Mark Hankel specially flew to America to purchase the bugging devices which were used to unlawfully monitor… 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 »
JEANNE VAN DER MERWE AND THANDUXOLO JIKA PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma is not alone in benefiting from lavish home upgrades at taxpayer’s expense, with a R1bn splurge which will see Cabinet members and other leaders awash in luxury. A document handed to a Parliament in a briefing by the department’s acting director-general Manisa Fatyela-Lindie spells out… Read More »
JEANNE VAN DER MERWE PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma does not own the land on which his Nkandla compound is built – and Public Works is now doing a deal to take up the lease, potentially for as little as R1000 a year. This means that not only will the Zuma compound be bankrolled by the taxpayer… Read More »
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 »
Jacques Pauw Malema could be charged with targeting the state’s authority and power. The Hawks are investigating charges of sedition and incitement of violence against former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema. The case is being handled by senior prosecutors attached to the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA’s) priority crimes litigation unit. City Press understands that… 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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