#ICMFiles| Follow the money: The directors who flushed Transnet’s cash
New information obtained by Open Secrets sheds light on how ICM and its directors made payments to flush Transnet money out of sight.
2023 budget speech: Civic organisations call on Godongwana not to reduce social spending
The Budget Justice Coalition has rejected government’s maintenance of an expenditure ceiling and broad fiscal consolidation.
Unaccountable 00037: Daniel Mantsha- the slippery side of the Teflon attorney
Lawyers and law firms were instrumental in the State Capture project. From prestigious Sandton white shoe firms to crooked small-time attorneys everyone feasted. One attorney who has not been held to account for State Capture crimes is the notorious Daniel Mantsha
The Social Cost of State Capture Webinar
Open Secrets’ Zen Mathe will be in conversation with Moira Campbell and Devi Pillay. They’ll be exploring how South Africans can address the social costs of state captures and seek restitution for the damage caused.
Social grant payments are a mess – and the public needs answers from Sassa, Sapo and Postbank
With a reputation of being incapable of managing the technical constraints of its internal systems, it must be questioned why the South African Social Security Agency and the South African Post Office would make Postbank the preferred partner to take over the administration of social grant payments.
Unaccountable 00036: T Systems- German IT giant and State Capture profiteer
Despite glaring evidence available in the public domain, the findings of the Zondo Commission and a fresh criminal investigation in Germany, South African authorities seem uninterested in holding T-Systems to account.
Unaccountable 00035: Johan van der Merwe
Sello Maema is the prosecutor inside the NPA who led three of the authority’s most questionable cases at that time. Allegations of Maema’s misconduct were documented in Open Secrets’ latest investigative report: Bad Cops, Bad Lawyers.
Unaccountable 00034: Sello Maema
Sello Maema is the prosecutor inside the NPA who led three of the authority’s most questionable cases at that time. Allegations of Maema’s misconduct were documented in Open Secrets’ latest investigative report: Bad Cops, Bad Lawyers.
Corruption Watch | Hawks, NPA are failing the country on state capture prosecutions, convictions
Are the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and Hawks dragging their feet on cases of state capture? Social justice NGO Open Secrets thinks so and lays out its arguments in a persuasive new report published in August 2022. There are many who would agree.
Unaccountable 00033: Andrew Chauke
In this series, Open Secrets profiles the prosecutors inside the National Prosecuting Authority who motivated questionable prosecutions and unduly delayed important cases. In this instalment, we focus on Andrew Chauke, the NPA’s head of public prosecutions in Johannesburg.