Documents given to Open Secrets confirm South32’s Hillside aluminium smelter receives around a 50% discount from Eskom that could add up to R92bn over the life of the deal. While the power utility says South Africa receives a ‘net benefit’, there is no evidence of this.
Despite loud claims to the contrary, some form of wealth tax in South Africa — especially of the very wealthiest — is both the right thing to do, and possible to achieve.
Explore how TotalEnergies’ operations, from Uganda to South Africa, expose a legacy of environmental harm, human rights violations, and greenwashing tactics. Part of Open Secrets’ Unaccountable series.
Despite South Africa’s ban on arms exports to Israel and its condemnation of Israel’s actions in Palestine, local arms companies continue to send weapons to Israel’s allies and its major arms suppliers.
An Open Secrets report raises the alarm about the way in which oil companies do business. Yet in South Africa, these companies have had a steadfast champion in mining minister Gwede Mantashe.
In the Corporations and Economic Crime Report: The Oil and Gas Majors, we expose Shell, TotalEnergies, and Impact Oil and Gas—three industry giants determined to expand their oil and gas operations in South Africa, despite strong resistance from local communities.
Pressure is mounting on President Cyril Ramaphosa to act against minister of justice & constitutional development Thembi Simelane, after she admitted to soliciting a loan from a company that facilitated payments from the Polokwane municipality to the now defunct VBS Mutual Bank.
Non-profit organisation, Open Secrets, is calling for – what it terms – the heads of the architects of corruption at Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) to roll.
The supplier of the troublesome voting management devices (VMDs) used in South Africa’s 2024 elections has been linked to convicted fraudster Wicknell Chivayo, the owner of a company that controversially secured “exclusive” Starlink distribution rights in Zimbabwe.
The organisation Open Secrets revealed in its latest investigation that Christoph Huber, a Swiss national living in Cape Town, is suspected of having made millions from the war in the DRC.