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1 month ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Victoria O’Regan |Tim Cohen |Pieter-Louis Myburgh |Don Pinnock
What legally defines treason in South Africa? The Mkhize farm debacle; and how cats and dogs ‘understand’ us. All in your weekend wrap. Treason is the topic du jour.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Pieter-Louis Myburgh
NEWSFLASH The National Department of Health wants out of a contentious R836-million project to install oxygen plants at government hospitals. This after Daily Maverick and amaBhungane identified several red flags in the bid process. The National Department of Health (NDoH) has told the Independent Development Trust (IDT) that it no longer wants to continue with a controversial project to install oxygen plants at 55 government hospitals across the country.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Pieter-Louis Myburgh |Pauli van Wyk |Branko Brkic |Zukiswa Pikoli
‘Ghost Company’ bags R428-million oxygen plant tender for state hospitals; mini-budget presentation chills like a cold shower; and spooky street scenes from New York City’s Halloween – all in the weekend wrap.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Pieter-Louis Myburgh
SCORPIO The Independent Development Trust, acting as a project manager for the Department of Health, has appointed private contractors to install oxygen plants at fifty-five government hospitals. The R836-million project raises similar red flags as the Digital Vibes fiasco, with the bulk of the spend set to go to an obscure company lacking the required accreditation.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Pieter-Louis Myburgh
SCORPIO The supplier of voting devices to South Africa's Independent Electoral Commission is the same firm now embroiled in a massive corruption scandal north of the border. Ren-Form, the Johannesburg-based firm at the centre of an ongoing corruption scandal in Zimbabwe, is also the supplier of voter management devices (VMDs) to South Africa’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), Daily Maverick can reveal.
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May 25, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Pieter-Louis Myburgh |Kristin Engel |Felix Dlangamandla |Malibongwe Tyilo
Scorpio raises fresh questions over dodgy donations to the ANC; SA’s long journey to the Chelsea Flower Show; and how the ICC’s warrants for Hamas and Israeli leaders could unfold. Scorpio’s latest investigations raise fresh questions over the ANC’s financial gains from government contracts. South Africa’s triumphant return to the world’s greatest floral feast, the Royal Horticultural Society, Chelsea Flower Show in London this week, followed a hard and long journey.
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May 22, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Pieter-Louis Myburgh
SCORPIO Is the ANC being funded on the back of government contracts? We examine donations from a tender-rich KZN contractor, much of it paid soon after the company got money from provincial government departments. In the same period, VNA transferred more than R1-million to a company owned by Ace Magashule's son, Thato. A near wholesale dependance on government contracts is perhaps the most salient feature of KZN-based VNA Consulting’s financial profile.
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May 21, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Pieter-Louis Myburgh
Does the ANC in effect feed off government contracts? The first of two new Scorpio investigations links a corrupt trains deal and a lucrative Tshwane transport project to a hefty donation the governing party received in 2014. Funds from a huge City of Tshwane (CoT) transport project, coupled with proceeds from the Passenger Rail Agency of SA's (Prasa) botched locomotives tender, in effect sponsored a R10-million donation the ANC pocketed in 2014.
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May 21, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Pieter-Louis Myburgh
Scorpio's latest investigations raise fresh questions over the ANC's financial gains from government contracts. Each year, the state in all its varied parts pays hundreds of billions of rands in taxpayers' money to thousands upon thousands of private sector contractors. This is a colossal pot of gold. Evidence that the governing ANC has been helping itself to little nuggets of the bullion has long tainted the party's fundraising machinery. Think Chancellor House.
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May 20, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Pieter-Louis Myburgh
SCORPIO A City of Tshwane transport tender somehow ballooned from R88m to nearly R800m. 'Tall trains' Auswell Mashaba is at the centre of it all. Businessman Auswell Mashaba gained tender infamy due to Swifambo’s R3.5-billion Prasa contract. Much less is known about the projects Mashaba’s other companies had been involved in. We’ve done some digging into a major tender Mashaba’s A-M Consulting Engineers, or AMCE, had clinched from the City of Tshwane (CoT).
