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- ActivePolitics
Gauteng SASSA Officials Arrested in R260 Million Grant Fraud
Latest update · 14 March 2025 — Gauteng SAPS and SASSA integrity teams arrested four regional officials in March 2025 for an alleged R260 million ghost-beneficiary / cloned-card scheme run out of Johannesburg and Soweto. Further counts and private-sector accomplices were added as card laboratories were dismantled.
- ActivePolitics
R19 Billion Lost in Water Sector Mismanagement (2023/24)
Latest update · 15 April 2025 — Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke’s 2023/24 municipal water disclosures quantify roughly R18.9 billion in technical and commercial losses nationally — effectively R52 million per day — alongside tens of millions of people facing unreliable supply. Gauteng municipalities alone shed about R6.9 billion; KwaZulu-Natal R3.45 billion. Fifty-five material irregularities added R1.76 billion in booked financial losses. SIU in 2025 separately said it referred 350 criminal dockets and chased R6.2 billion in civil recoveries linked to water-sector corruption.
- ActivePolitics
Cape Town R1.6 Billion Construction Tender Fraud
Latest update · 1 January 2026 — The government pays companies to build roads and manage waste in Cape Town. Some officials who decide which companies get these contracts are accused of colluding with certain businesses to give them the contracts unfairly. The police raided 26 buildings looking for proof. Three city officials are under investigation. The total value of the contracts under investigation is R1.6 billion — but this does not mean all of that money was stolen.
- ActiveOrganised Crime
Malusi Booi and the Cape Town Housing Tender Enterprise
Latest update · 23 May 2025 — A former senior Cape Town politician named Malusi Booi was accused of working with alleged 28s gang boss Ralph Stanfield and business associate Nicole Johnson to unfairly steer massive housing-related contracts. Booi was arrested in 2024, fired years earlier after SAPS raids, and saw commercial fraud charges provisionally withdrawn in May 2025 while detectives reworked the docket. He insists he is innocent; key co-accused remain in custody on other charges.
- ActivePolitics
Mpumalanga R114 Million School Maintenance Tender Fraud
Latest update · 22 February 2026 — The Mpumalanga Department of Education budgeted roughly R114 million for emergency repairs at 21 rural schools. Hawks investigators say officials and contractors inflated prices, billed for ghost work and split proceeds. A former acting HOD, acting CFO and dozens of suppliers were rounded up in a four-province takedown in February 2026 — totals in headlines ranged from about 20 to 36 suspects as operations widened.
- ActiveCriminal Justice
The Mkhwanazi Allegations & Madlanga Commission
Latest update · 28 April 2026 — Imagine your school has a special teacher whose job is to catch cheaters. One day that teacher stood up and said: the principal is helping the cheaters and hiding the evidence. That is what happened in South Africa. A senior police officer named General Mkhwanazi stood up and said some very powerful politicians and police bosses were protecting a criminal gang. Two groups of very important people are now investigating to find out if this is true.
- ActivePolitics
B-BBEE: South Africa's Transformation Law — History, Impact, and Debate
Latest update · 7 May 2026 — B-BBEE is South Africa's legislated framework for redressing the economic imbalances created by colonialism and apartheid. It does this by requiring companies that want government contracts, licences, or other government relationships to show progress on seven elements: ownership by black people, management control by black people, skills development, enterprise and supplier development, and socio-economic development. Companies are scored and rated, and their rating affects their ability to participate in the economy.
- ActiveCorruption
Tembisa Hospital: R2 Billion Looted While Patients Suffered
Latest update · 1 January 2026 — Tembisa Hospital in Gauteng is one of the biggest public hospitals in South Africa, serving hundreds of thousands of ordinary people. Over five years, criminal syndicates allegedly stole more than R2 billion that was meant for medicines, equipment, and patient care. When a government official named Babita Deokaran flagged suspicious payments and reportedly raised fears for her safety, she was shot and killed outside her Johannesburg home in August 2021 — days after those warnings. Six men were convicted for carrying out the assassination; who ordered and paid for it remained contested in open sources as of 2026.
- ActiveCorruption
Medicare24: The R360 Million Police Tender That Bought Silence
Latest update · 25 March 2026 — A company called Medicare24, tied in public reporting to businessman Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala, was awarded a roughly R360 million contract to provide healthcare to police officers. Investigations allege inflated capacity and alleged gratification to senior officers. By March 2026 a large group of SAPS members faced court in Pretoria; the National Commissioner was reportedly summonsed. IDAC within the NPA was publicly associated with the line of inquiry. Businessman Suliman Carrim is accused in commission and court-facing narratives of acting as a fixer between police leadership and Matlala — he denies wrongdoing.