MEDIA STATEMENT 31 August 2026 Open Secrets heads to the Concourt to promote Corporate Accountability Open Secrets has been admitted as amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) in the case between MTN’s international corporate actors (MTN) and East Asia Consortium (EAC), which will be heard by the Constitutional Court on 31 August and 1 September…
PRESS RELEASE Civil society calls on the Human Rights Commission to investigate the human rights impacts of South Africa’s data centre boom CAPE TOWN, 24 August 2026 — Five civil society organisations — the Housing Assembly, Foxglove, Open Secrets, Research + Action and Planetary AI Collective (with legal analysis by Open Secrets and the Legal…
Documents we have obtained reveal the banks are contracted by the Department of Social Development and the South African Social Security Agency to digitally verify grant beneficiaries’ income status and dispense grant payments from Sassa.
Documents we have obtained reveal the banks are contracted by the Department of Social Development and the South African Social Security Agency to digitally verify grant beneficiaries’ income status and dispense grant payments from Sassa.
MEDIA STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 08 June 2026 Civil Society calls for urgent government action on NACAC anti-corruption proposals The Civil Society Working Group on State Capture (CSWG) met in Johannesburg on 4 June 2026 to deliberate on the proposals of the National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council (NACAC), including its recommendation for the establishment of the…
The Western Cape High Court has dismissed the urgent interdict application brought by Integrated Convoy Protection (ICP) against Open Secrets. The interdict sought to silence Open Secrets and prevent the publication of an article about ICP’s contract to supply armoured vehicles to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Investigative nonprofit Open Secrets has confirmed that it is currently “unable to speak on a matter of significant public importance” due to a court-imposed restriction.
Open Secrets, an organisation which exposes economic crimes and human rights abuses, has been issued a prepublication gag order. This appears to be the most draconian prepublication interdict we have come across.
Open Secrets is presently unable to speak on a matter of significant public importance. We are not permitted to disclose anything related to the matter including the names of the parties that may be involved. What we can say is simple: efforts to muzzle public-interest journalism endanger everyone’s right to know.
PRESS RELEASE | Open Secrets Reveals the Powerful Owners Behind South Africa’s Private TelecomsMedia statement News Print Media Online State Capture Profiteers Who Owns South Africa? October 28, 2025 Cape Town, South Africa Open Secrets has launched the latest volume of its incisive new Who Owns South Africa series that exposes the powerful players who…