The Hidden Power of Private Telecoms – Interview with Tessa Dooms
LISTEN | Ra’eesa Pather, Senior Investigator at Open Secrets joins Tessa Dooms on POWER Perspective to discuss Open Secrets’ latest report Who Owns South Africa: Private Telecoms
Open Secrets Reveals the Powerful Owners Behind South Africa’s Private Telecoms – SAfm
LISTEN | Ra’eesa Pather, Senior Investigator at Open Secrets joins Koketso Sachane on The Meeting Point to discuss Open Secrets’ latest report Who Owns South Africa: Private Telecoms
INVESTIGATION: Who Owns South Africa? Vol.3 | Private Telecommunications
Discover how MTN, Vodacom, Telkom & Cell C dominate South Africa’s telecom industry in Volume 3 Open Secrets’ Who Owns South Africa series. This volume reveals how these players impact the rights of people around the world, their relationships with powerful politicians, and the growing role they play in selling financial services.
PRESS RELEASE | Open Secrets Reveals the Powerful Owners Behind South Africa’s Private Telecoms
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…
Frans Mathipa murder | Open Secrets investigators probe Lt Col. Mathipa’s murder – SABC News
Open Secrets Director, Hennie van Vuuren on SABC News updating on the findings so far related to the murder of the Hawks investigator Lieutenant Colonel Frans Mathipa in August 2023 and the kidnapping of two Ethiopian nationals — Abdella Hussein Abadiga and Kadir Jemal Abotese — in December 2022.
The cost of Eskom’s secret pricing deals | Currency News
Eskom’s secretive pricing deals with aluminium giant South32 reveal how claims of ‘commercial confidentiality’ are used to block access to information in the public interest.
Our Annual report is here!
Our Annual report is here!News Newsletter October 8, 2025 Nolwazi Nene Mamello Mosiana In 2024/25, Open Secrets’ work was broadcast, debated, and acted on, and it was sustained by the commitment and support of partners within civil society and on occasion by engaged state institutions. In this report we reflect on Open Secrets’ impact and…
Who Owns South Africa? | The Dan Corder Show
Michael Marchant, Head of Investigations at Open Secrets was a guest on The Dan Corder Show on eNCA explaining Open Secrets’ research into the billionaires and big businesses that own much of South Africa’s industries.
‘Who Owns South Africa’ report points to ‘commodification’ of healthcare in private sector | Daily Maverick
A report by the non-profit Open Secrets has condemned the ‘financialisation’ of healthcare in South Africa, with researchers arguing that the private healthcare sector is being used for profit-taking by a small group of powerful actors at the expense of affordability and access for patients.
HEALTH FEATURE: South Africa’s Healthcare Inequality | Power 987
South Africa’s private healthcare sector is controlled by a handful of powerful groups, pushing up costs and deepening inequality. As the government pushes ahead with National Health Insurance (NHI) reforms, it faces stiff resistance from entrenched private interests. Open Secrets lawyer Luthando Vilakazi explores how corporate power shapes healthcare access and what it means for ordinary South Africans.