A forensic investigation has found that the National Lotteries Commission should recover hundreds of thousands of rand from ProEthics, a company it paid to advise on ethics, after uncovering irregular fees, over-invoicing and missing receipts. ProEthics and its director Dr Janette Minnaar tried to stop GroundUp publishing this article.
Springbok assistant coach Tony Brown has distanced himself from speculation that he will join the All Blacks’ staff, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen.
What these numbers document is not conservation under pressure, but extraction at scale. They expose trophy hunting not as a people-centred conservation model, but as a market-driven industry serving a narrow, global elite.
The BBC’s Faisal Islam was in the room when President Trump told his audience that he would not use force in Greenland, but also launched a long argument for why the US should own it.
The board of South African National Parks, which oversees some of the world’s premier nature reserves, will consider whether to change its corporate structure to allow it to borrow directly from capital markets and retain more of its earnings.
In a rambling address at the World Economic Forum, US President Donald Trump doubled down on acquiring Greenland, threatened political rivals and donned the mantle of a misguided energy expert to attack the ‘green new scam’.
President Donald Trump demanded immediate talks on acquiring Greenland in a hardline speech at Davos on Wednesday, but said that while the United States possessed “unstoppable force”, it would not use it to take the Arctic island from Denmark.
Nedbank has offered to buy 66% of East African banking group NCBA for R13.9 billion, marking a strategic pivot toward controlled expansion in East and Southern Africa after exiting its Ecobank investment.
Rudi Dicks, Head of the Project Management Office in the Presidency, said the greatest damage caused by state capture was the loss of good public servants.