Analysis
Explainer: why South Africa’s prisons are overcrowded
Our prisons have about 105,000 beds but there are over 156,000 prisoners
By Daniel Steyn
Analysis | 4 December 2024
Investigation into social grant fraud is a flop
SASSA investigation into SRD grant application system fails to answer crucial questions
Analysis | 27 November 2024
Crime statistics: who are we to believe?
SAPS and Stats SA figures are wildly different
Analysis | 22 October 2024
Social grant fraud: SASSA needs to act, not deny
Instead of wrongly accusing us of illegal hacking, SASSA should take urgent action to fix the extremely serious problems we described
By Joel Cedras and Veer Gosai
Analysis | 18 October 2024
We discovered massive fraud in SASSA’s grant system
SASSA needs to disclose how this happened and the scale of the problem
By Joel Cedras and Veer Gosai
Analysis | 14 October 2024
Heroin use has spread as prices plummet
South Africa’s central position in a drug smuggling route between West Asia and Europe plays a role
Analysis | 9 October 2024
Why the Woolies boss was paid 1,300 times as much as a shopfloor worker
Report by Just Share exposes pay gaps in the retail and wholesale sector
By Ann Crotty
Analysis | 18 September 2024
SA bank executives coined it during Covid
Banks paid out hefty bonuses, though performance targets were not met
Ann Crotty for Just Share
Analysis | 20 May 2024
Universal Basic Income Grant: What should a payment system look like?
South Africa can learn from Brazil
Abby May, Zen Mathe and Michael Marchant for Open Secrets
Analysis | 13 May 2024