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 »

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 »

ATHANDIWE SABA and THANDUXOLO JIKA Thousands of Limpopo pupils are still without textbooks four months into the school year as the government probes a controversial R320 million textbook tender in the cash-strapped province. The textbook tender was awarded to EduSolutions, a company controlled by ANC-connected businessmen and former government officials. Whistle-blower Solly Shitangano, a former… Read More »

ATHANDIWE SABA and THANDUXOLO JIKA GAUTENG Transport MEC Ismail Vadi has racked up a raft of speeding fines in his official vehicles while at the same time preaching to other road users to obey traffic laws. Media24 Investigations has obtained details of traffic fines levied against his official vehicles using access to information laws. Other… Read More »

ATHANDIWE SABA THE political advisor for OR Tambo district municipality, serving one of South Africa’s poorest areas, rakes in a R1 million a year salary but no-one – including the man himself- can explain what his job entails. National Treasury data shows Zama Mzamane, the political advisor to mayor Dingaan Myolwa in the council in… Read More »

JEANNE VAN DER MERWE and ATHANDIWE SABA Six of South Africa’s most expensive municipal management teams preside over councils that are in serious financial trouble. These teams – municipal managers and all the managers who report to them – earn massive salaries, making their municipalities among the costliest for taxpayers. But in many cases, their… Read More »