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The Naicker family built a multibillion-rand empire renting water tankers and yellow plant to government. Bitter family feuds threaten to bring them down.

Government wants to tell South Africa its good story through online infographics, orchestrated optics, the odd televised national speech and spin. But when it comes to backing pretty words with facts, evidential details and comment, it’s a whole different story.

This is the keynote address delivered to the 14th International Sustainability Transitions Conference, Utrecht, August 2023, by Mark Swilling.

The ANC’s Veterans League is against the selection of anyone implicated in State Capture for the party's provincial and national parliamentary lists.

Paul Hoffman challenges the government's claims that the IDAC bill is a permanent solution as questions linger about its constitutionality.

Commissioner Edward Kieswetter challenges tax administrators to become vocal advocates and promoters of a single digital identity.

Parliament is rushing through a fundamentally flawed Public Procurement Bill that could set the scene for State Capture 2.0.

In 2024, South Africa will hold its seventh democratic election amid heightened corruption, failing state-owned enterprises, self-serving elites and a declining economy.

Transnet's rail operations, which are a crucial cog in SA’s economy as they ferry most of the iron ore and coal to countries around the world, are not reliable. Its trains often face delays or do not move at all, mainly because of cable theft, vandalism and the state-owned enterprise’s (SOE’s)...

The Special Investigating Unit is being urged to act quickly on the blacklisting of companies and individuals linked to irregular contracts at Transnet, which has lost an estimated R40bn to sustained State Capture.