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Deokaran was gunned down outside her Johannesburg home in August.The senior official at the provincial Health Department was a key witness in an investigation into tender fraud surrounding p...

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Three weeks after the pivotal 1 November local elections, some of South Africa’s municipalities have sworn in councillors. In those with no outright winners, fragile political coalitions are being formed. The polls marked the lowest voter turnout in post-apartheid South Africa. Support for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) dipped below 50% for the first time, resulting in the party controlling only two of the country’s eight metropolitan areas.

On 3 October the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released the ‘Pandora Papers’ – a treasure trove of documents exposing attempts by wealthy elites to hide their assets and cash in offshore tax havens. Thirty-five current and former heads of state were named after 2.9 terabytes of leaked data that were processed, picked over, packaged and published by a global team of hundreds of journalists. It’s a potent reminder of the power of data and its ability...

Alternative forms of data can force accountability, especially in countries where the democratic space is being eroded. 

Alternative forms of data can force accountability, especially in countries where the democratic space is being eroded.

National Treasury has said it is not responsible for submitting names to SA's national tender blacklist, which has no names on it despite widespread agreement that corruption is blighting state procurement contracts.

The ANC has lost its outright majority in eThekwini Municipality and will need to form a coalition with a smaller party to retain control.

Last year, the former Minister of Water and Sanitation Lindiwe Sisulu disbanded Umgeni Water's board.

Analysts say the ANC’s poor performance in the elections is the ‘beginning of the end’ for the party; motorists should expect R20 per litre for petrol in…