The Tenderpreneur and the Printing Firm: Wicknell Chivayo and Renform
In this episode of Open Secrets Radio, host Mamello Mosiana dives deep into Zimbabwe’s latest corruption scandal involving the Zimbabwean Electoral Commission
Open Secrets Radio – Universal Basic Income Grant: Who stands to profit? | Q&A with Open Secrets investigators
In this episode of Open Secrets Radio, we discuss the key issues surrounding the potential implementation of a Basic Income Grant in South Africa and ask, who stands to profit? Tune in as Open Secrets investigators Abby May, Zen Mathe, and Michael Marchant dive into the concept of a basic income grant as a form of social protection; its potential to address poverty and inequality; and concerns around the digitization of South Africa’s grant system.
Open Secrets Radio: We stand with Yemen
In this episode Open Secrets Zen Mathe and Mamello Mosiana talk about the humanitarian crisis in Yemen and the role of South Africa in supplying arms to parties to the conflict, namely Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Open Secrets Radio: Challenge to secretive regulations for head of South Africa’s financial sector regulator
13 May 2021| Court application by Open Secrets & UBC, represented by CALS, to challenge the appointment process of the Commissioners of the Financial Sector Conduct Authority. Hosts: Mamello Mosiana, Michael Marchant, Zen Mathe Music: Mello C- Pasikolu (licensed through Creative Commons) Open Secrets Radio is powered by Hindenburg Systems
They Killed Dulcie- Episode 5: The Arms Money Machine
For almost two decades starting in the 1970’s the South African embassy in Paris was the centre of a large-scale sanctions busting operation. It was connected to the arms dealers, spies and banks that formed part of the arms money machine. In episode five They Killed Dulcie, we find out if this top secret operation…
They Killed Dulcie Episode 4: Prisons of the Past
In the fourth episode of the podcast They Killed Dulcie, the time has come to look at the evidence. What was Dulcie investigating when she was killed?
They Killed Dulcie- Episode 3: The Double Agent
In the third episode of “They Killed Dulcie,” we delve into the world of informants and double agents and how the apartheid security forces used them to infiltrate the liberation movements in South Africa and abroad. It remains a sensitive topic in South African politics today – some comrades were also collaborators. Following the assassination…
They Killed Dulcie- Episode 2: The Spies
The second episode of the podcast series They Killed Dulcie continues where episode one left off. The journey begins in a Parisian suburb, but ends in Johannesburg, where former Apartheid era spy Craig Williamson opens the door to the murky world of espionage. Dulcie’s childhood friend, activist Betty van der Heyden recounts the story of…
They Killed Dulcie- Episode 1: The Scene of the Crime
A new podcast series by Sound Africa and Open Secrets,They Killed Dulcie, draws from research by Open Secrets for the book Apartheid Guns and Money: A tale of profit. This is the first episode of a podcast series about Dulcie September’s life and assassination. The first episode begins in Cape Town in the 1930s, and ends…
Tonight with Lester: Dulcie September Documentary
In 1988 in Paris five bullets ended the life of Cape Town-born liberation movement activist Dulcie September. Why was she killed? Who profited from her murder? These are the questions being asked in a new pod cast documentary series, brought to us by anti-corruption lobby group Open Secrets, and produced by Sound Africa. The new…