We have been gagged! We cannot say by who or why. Attempts to silence public-interest journalism threaten everyone’s matters of public interestt. We’ll challenge this order with our attorneys at PowerLaw Africa. More information to follow. opensecrets.org.za

Open Secrets is doing incredible work in holding corporates and private sector players accountable for corruption. They’re now facing sham lawsuits and gag orders to try and stop them. This has to stop!

This must be the result of a ruling. I would love to know how a judge would justify making a gagging order decision like this. Hope that this decision is appealed - and everything that informed all of this comes out into the open.

This week, the Information Regulator ordered SA Revenue Service to release the tax returns and documents related to Jacob Zuma’s tax affairs to amaBhungane and journalist Warren Thompson. This is the latest development in a saga that’s been running since 2019.

Calling all muckrakers, truth-diggers and fearless investigative journalists — amaBhungane is hiring! Join South Africa’s leading investigative journalism team and be part of a small, dedicated newsroom committed to public-interest, high-impact reporting. We have an opening on

You wonder why SA fans think the world is against them

Listening to the #NkabindeInquiry opening address and it seems Adv Chauke is being disciplined for issues involving Gen Booysen, Richard Mdluli and Adv Nomgcobo Jiba. It’s really scandalous how Ramaphosa sat on his hands from Aug 2023 to Sept 2025 without acting on Chauke.

Excellent piece. Lack of public discussion about merits of drastic, counterintuitive reduction in inflation target has been bizarre. How is public meant to know there is typically an inflation-employment tradeoff? Development? Creditor vs debtor interests? businessday.co.za/opinion/2025-1…

Just in: SA government considering the most suitable options for the G20 Handover to the US.

Nedbank has agreed to pay R600-million to Transnet to settle a court case over the bank’s State Capture-era deals and its inappropriate, seven-year relationship with Regiments Capital. But Transnet wasn’t the first stop: our 2021 investigation – backed by hundreds of emails and

CLIMATE ARTICLE RELEASE: Who benefits off the renewable industry and at what cost? Abby May and Zen Mathe take a deep dive into the energy landscape and the potential replication of existing inequities from the fossil fuel industry. READ NOW: dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-1…

amaBhungane So Nedbank nothing to see here? Just R600m in hush-money, but no wrong-doing? And the executives who presided over this travesty just continue to enjoy their profits and perks. Just another set of smug Sandton cowboys. Pathetic.

BREAKING: Open Secrets can reveal this after a 3-week ICP gag order: UAE “Made in Emirates” armoured vehicles may be South African designs, built by SA staff with SA parts — even as the UAE backs factions in Sudan’s genocide. 🚨 READ HERE: dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-1…

An empty and cowardly statement from an empty and cowardly man

The arms trade thrives in the shadows — and corruption is the cover. Explore the Arms Trade Corruption Tracker Corruption Tracker: a free public database documenting 63 cases across 66 countries and 86 companies. youtu.be/dEiMl62IBHo?si…

Open Secrets welcomes the @GroundUp publication today of an investigation that private interests attempted to gag. This is a victory for media freedom and the public’s right to know. Gag orders are a tool used by the powerful to silence journalism exposing wrongdoing.

groundup Read the GroundUp article here: groundup.org.za/article/ethics…

This is one of the most extraordinary and illuminating passages in all journalism. CNN frames Maduro as a paranoid liar for claiming the CIA is trying to overthrow him. Yet in the very next sentence, it casually notes that the CIA did, in fact, overthrow him. The level of

The R370 SRD grant, which goes to around 8 million people, is less than 44% of the food poverty line. Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has just published updated poverty line figures for 2025. The latest Food Poverty Line (FPL) is now R855 per person per month. The SRD Grant, which is supposed to

Morgan McSweeney – who just quit as Downing Street chief of staff over his role in the Mandelson scandal – was one of the most powerful figures in Starmer's Labour. But who really is he? We asked investigative journalist Paul Holden back in November. Holden has a personal