The corporations and individuals profiteering from fossil fuel use and those who stand profit from a transition to renewable energy.
In The Oil and Gas Kingpin of Africa: The ‘Law Firm’ Brokering Africa’s Biggest Oil and Gas Deals, Open Secrets profiles lawyer and businessman, NJ Ayuk, and his company, CLG (formerly known as Centurion Law Group). Both have a wide network of influence and power across the African continent. While Ayuk and CLG benefit from public funds, the fossil fuel industry continues wreck harm on people and our environment across Africa.
MEDIA STATEMENT 28 October 2026 New Open Secrets investigation reveals fresh details of a shady South African ‘law firm’ behind mega oil and gas Today, Open Secrets publishes a new investigative report; The Oil and Gas Kingpin of Africa: The ‘Law Firm’ Brokering Africa’s Biggest Oil and Gas Deals. The report profiles lawyer and…
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.
We Can’t See the Sunset Documentary TrailerClimate Profiteers News Open Secrets TV People's Hearing August 30, 2025 Mamello Mosiana Nolwazi Nene In a country shadowed by smokescreens and broken promises, We Can’t See the Sunset is a haunting journey into the human cost of the climate crisis. Through interviews with Open Secrets investigator Zen Mathe…
The Access to Information Network (ATI Network) compiled and submitted a report engaging with how our courts have interpreted and applied the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) in cases concerning access to information, particularly on energy- and climate-related information requests.
John Perlman chats to Michael Marchant, Head of Investigations at Open Secrets on the cheap electricity deal between Eskom and South32. They touch on the fact that some of the deals similar to this one were developed at a time when the production of electricity was not a problem.
Consultants downplayed previous warnings given to the Central Energy Fund about the purchase of Sapref’s oil refinery in South Durban, which has serious implications for the state and the public.
Watch the recording of the People’s Hearing on Energy Profiteers Part 2 which brought together communities, activists, and organisations for a powerful day of art, activism, and accountability for the climate crisis and energy crisis in South Africa.
In May 2024, the state-owned Central Energy Fund (CEF) announced that it would purchase the South African Petroleum Refinery (Sapref) oil refinery in South Durban – and all its related assets – for just R1.Â
Fossil Free South Africa (FFSA) and Open Secrets express dismay and alarm at the refusal by the South African parliamentarians’ pension fund to divulge whether it invests in fossil fuel companies and in companies trading with human rights-abusing regimes, like Israel.