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…
Hennie van Vuuren | Khadija Sharife | Mark Anderson Yahya Jammeh once said he would rule the Gambia for “one billion years”. His rule proved somewhat shorter — he lost the presidential elections in 2017 after 22 years in power. Since then, a massive clean-up of Gambian institutions has begun. But the cost of his…
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…
Media Statement| CSWG | 21 March 2019 The struggle against State Capture and corruption in South Africa is a struggle for human rights. This is why the current revelations at the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture (the Zondo Commission) are important – they lay bare the various networks of looters in the public and…
Refilwe Moloto speaks to Open Secrets’ Researcher Michael Marchant this follows on the Financial Sector Conduct Authority’s directive to all pension fund administrators to urgently get cancelled pension funds reinstated by the courts if they found that they had been erroneously deregistered before 1 April 2018.
Wendy Trott | Luminate | 20 March 2019 | Over the last few years, South Africa has been made painfully aware of the economic and social consequences of corruption. In 2018 Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index assigned South Africa an index of 43 out of 100, ranking them 73 out of 180 countries (those with…
Between 2007 and 2013, more than 6,000 pension funds in South Africa were cancelled in a process littered with errors and oversights. Today, Open Secrets has written to five of the country’s largest pension fund administrators to demand swift action to reinstate pension funds that have been incorrectly cancelled. This is the first of many…
Watch the trailer for our podcast series with Sound Africa: They Killed Dulcie.
South Africa’s history is one of rapacious profit-taking by corporate elites at the expense of South African people and its environment. Whether it was the Dutch East India Company, Anglo-American and De Beers, or Lonmin, the rules of the game have for too long been set to enable extraction and profit-taking that has entrenched gross…
8 February 2019 State of the Nation Address 2019: Time to Get Serious About Economic Crime An important focus of President Ramaphosa’s second State of the Nation Address (SONA) was on the Commissions of Inquiry that have the potential to finally tackle high level corruption in the private and public sector. This includes…