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MEDIA STATEMENT | CSWG Welcomes Presidency Engagement but Calls for Urgent Action on Anti-Corruption Reforms

Advocacy, Media statement, News, State Capture ProfiteersBy Letlhogonolo Letshele November 6, 2026

MEDIA STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 06 November 2026 CSWG Welcomes Presidency Engagement but Calls for Urgent Action on Anti-Corruption Reforms On Monday 02 November civil society organisations working to combat corruption met with the Presidency to share their concerns regarding delays in aspects of governments anti-corruption efforts. The 20 organisation strong Civil Society Working Group…

PRESS RELEASE | New Open Secrets investigation reveals fresh details of a shady South African ‘law firm’ behind mega oil and gas deals across Africa

Advocacy, Climate Profiteers, Investigations, Media statementBy Letlhogonolo Letshele October 28, 2026

MEDIA STATEMENT 28 October 2026 New Open Secrets investigation reveals fresh details of a shady South African ‘law firm’ behind mega oil and gas Today, Open Secrets publishes a new investigative report; The Oil and Gas Kingpin of Africa: The ‘Law Firm’ Brokering Africa’s Biggest Oil and Gas Deals. The report profiles lawyer and…

Who Owns South Africa: Private Media

Advocacy, Media statement, News, State Capture Profiteers, Who Owns South Africa?By Letlhogonolo Letshele October 8, 2026

REPORT LAUNCH Who Owns South Africa: Private Media Join Open Secrets on Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 6pm at the Homecoming Centre for the fifth instalment of the Who Owns South Africa investigative series. Media workers are the writers of history. They document the living record of our changing world at a time when rising…

Open Secrets heads to the Concourt to promote Corporate Accountability

Advocacy, Media statement, State Capture ProfiteersBy Letlhogonolo Letshele August 30, 2026

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…

Submission to the South African Human Rights Commission : Data Centres and Human Rights in South Africa

Access to Information, Advocacy, Digital Profiteers, Legal, Media statement, NewsBy Letlhogonolo Letshele August 25, 2026

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…

Media Statement| Civil Society calls for urgent government action on NACAC anti-corruption proposals

Advocacy, Media statement, News, State Capture Profiteers, Zondo CommissionBy Letlhogonolo Letshele June 8, 2026

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…

PRESS RELEASE: Gag order lifted – Open Secrets victory in urgent interdict filed by armoured vehicle company Integrated Convoy Protection

Advocacy, ICP Leaks, Investigations, Legal, Media statement, NewsBy Open Secrets November 27, 2025

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).

Open Secrets has been gagged. We cannot say by who or why.

Advocacy, Investigations, Legal, Media statementBy Open Secrets November 10, 2025

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 Telecoms

Media statement, News, Print Media Online, State Capture Profiteers, Who Owns South Africa?By Open Secrets October 28, 2025

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…

PRESS RELEASE | Parliamentarians’ pension fund balks at transparency

Access to Information, Climate Profiteers, Media statement, NewsBy Nolwazi Nene July 2, 2025

Fossil Free South Africa (FFSA) and Open Secrets express dismay and alarm at the refusal by the South African parliamentarians’ pension fund to divulge whether it invests in fossil fuel companies and in companies trading with human rights-abusing regimes, like Israel.