Wednesday, 10 December 2025

PANAMA PAPERS

UK Outlines Tougher Anti-Corruption Measures Focused on Professional Enablers

By OCCRP | 10 December 2025 Britain’s new strategy seeks to curb corruption by cracking down on rogue lawyers, accountants and bankers, tightening oversight and consolidating anti–money-laundering supervision under a single regulator. The U.K. government launched a more...

The six-monthly anti-HIV jab is coming. But can SA keep track of millions of...

What you need to Know: In April next year, South Africa plans to start rolling out an anti-HIV jab, taken only twice a year, that could end Aids in the country within 14 to 18...

‘I’ll ruin your life’ — State witness alleges threat by investigator in Phala Phala case

By Nonkululeko Njilo | 5 October 2025 Allegations that the Phala Phala investigating officer threatened a key witness could throw the State’s case into turmoil, as the court prepares to decide whether crucial evidence can...

LDF commander’s wife at centre of mine dispute in Mashai

By Sechaba Mokhethi and Mamello Mochesane | 16 September 2025 In Lesotho’s remote highlands, 46 villagers are preparing a legal fight to stop a diamond prospecting project that could cost them their land, livelihoods and...

The Zambian minister, the mysterious businesswoman and illegal mining

“There is a new mining order that is coming. Embrace it, but what is illegal, do not tolerate it,” says minister What you need to Know: Illegal mining is rife at Sensele Mine in Zambia. Many lives...