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12 October 2026 Corruption & Governance Watch

Focus


Ex-DiData CEO admits secret stake in HQ sale

After years of denials, an ex-CEO of Dimension Data has admitted to secretly participating in the controversial sale of the group’s Bryanston headquarters – declared an illegal scheme by the High Court – and broken ranks with four other executives implicated in the deal ... Read More

South Africa


McKenzie's Ticketpro links cause uproar

The exact ownership of the empowerment group that bought Ticketpro from Blu Label Unlimited, a JSE-listed telecommunications group, remained unclear after a month-long investigation detailed the involvement in the deal of several women linked to Sport, Arts & Culture Minister ... Read More

Myeni's estate saddled with sequestration order

The estate of former SAA board chairperson Dudu Myeni has until 6 November to show why a provisional sequestration order against it should not be made final, The Citizen notes. The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) approached the KZN High ... Read More

Watchdog moves to scrap R6bn Premier-RFG merger

The Competition Commission asked the Competition Tribunal to revoke approval of the R6bn merger between JSE-listed Premier and RFG after what it called breaches of the conditions imposed on the deal, Business Day reports. The commission said four months after ... Read More

Analysis


Tackling SA's deeply-embedded rule of law crisis

The conduct of some witnesses before the Madlanga Commission points to a problem in SA deeper than criminals breaking the law, with growing evidence of many people who know no way of living other than through crime, Jabulani Sikhakhane, editor ... Read More

Rest of Africa


Malawi arrests ex-army chief over arms trafficking

Malawi's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested former army chief General Paul Valentino Phiri on allegations including dealing in property linked to 'terrorism', TRT Afrika reports. The arrest came months after the allegations surfaced. The ACB said the charges arose from ... Read More

Kenyan weighbridge officer nabbed in bribe sting

Kenya's Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) arrested a police officer attached to the Kenya National Highways Authority at the Isinya Weighbridge over allegations that he demanded and received a Sh60 000 ($464) bribe from a motorist, Capital FM reports ... Read More

Sirleaf admits Liberia lost its corruption fight

Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf admitted her administration failed to defeat corruption despite introducing several governance and transparency reforms during her 12 years in office, the New Dawn writes. Speaking at a Governance Commission symposium marking Good Governance Month ... Read More

World


Sri Lanka arrests former First Lady over donations

Sri Lanka's former First Lady, Shiranthi Rajapaksa, was arrested over allegations a charity linked to her misused donations raised for a children's hospital, the BBC writes. Anti-corruption authorities arrested the 73-year-old wife of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa at ... Read More

Netanyahu fined over corrupt campaign tactics

Israel's Central Elections Committee ordered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for a second time, to pay legal costs and remove a video from his personal social media accounts after ruling that footage filmed at a military base amounted to election ... Read More

Ex-CIA gold bar hoarder admits $193m fraud

A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer accused of stashing hundreds of gold bars in his home admitted in court to a far larger web of deception, including a $145m luxury real estate scam and passing sensitive intelligence to a ... Read More

Briefs


Sygnia's R600m executive share plan draws fire

* Investment company Sygnia, founded by Magda Wierzycka, faced a governance storm over a plan to issue about R600m in new shares to executives at a cost of 1c each, possibly without performance conditions or targets. The plan posed the most ... Read More

Case Law Briefs


UIF v PIC (Agency dispute)

KZN High Court (Durban) UIF v Public Investment Corporation & 24 Others Judgment: 30 September 2026 Keywords: UIF seeking leave to appeal – Self-created urgency – UIF legally represented and participated – Provisional liquidation – Agency dispute Summary: The UIF, a ... Read More

Senekal v Standard Bank (Insolvency)

SCA FJ Senekal Inc v Standard Bank Judgment: 5 October 2026 Keywords: Insolvency – Insolvency Act, s 63(2) – trustee remuneration – fellow director of trustee – incorporated law practice – cession – liquidation and distribution account – s ... Read More

Modibedi v Nedbank (Credit law)

Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) Modibedi and Another v Nedbank Limited & Others Judgment: 1 October 2026 Keywords: Credit law – Bank ignored consumer's response proposing restructured payment plan and sought executability of residential property – Credit provider's duty ... Read More

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