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Fuel & Energy

Sars teams up with law enforcement to combat illicit fuel trade

18 Jun 2025

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Insurance & Actuarial

NLPs and automated image analysis: How AI is being used to prevent insurance fraud

Prescious Mogale and Zaakir Mohamed 6 Dec 2024

Deputy finance minister Ashor Sarupen visited the National Construction Summit to deliver a R63bn Construction Mafia warning. Source: x.com

Construction & Engineering

Treasury estimates economic cost of Construction Mafia at R63bn so far

Lindsey Schutters 19 Nov 2024

TV

MultiChoice and law enforcement crack down on streaming device piracy rings

5 Nov 2024

Insights into the fight against the construction mafia

Construction & Engineering

Insights into the fight against the construction mafia

Lindsey Schutters 17 Sep 2024

What happens to financial losses suffered by banking customers following a kidnapping?

Banking

What happens to financial losses suffered by banking customers following a kidnapping?

Issued by Bullion PR & Communication 14 Aug 2024

Trafficked Underworlds with Mariana van Zeller premiers this May

TV

Trafficked Underworlds with Mariana van Zeller premiers this May

Issued by The Walt Disney Company Africa 30 Apr 2024

File photo: Black rhinos, one of the world's endangered animals, are seen at a farm outside Klerksdorp, in the north west province, South Africa, 24 February 2016. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo

Environment & Natural Resources

Rhino poaching in South Africa increases in 2023

Nellie Peyton and Bhargav Acharya 27 Feb 2024

#BizTrends2024: The foreseeable impact of technology on quantity surveying

Trends

#BizTrends2024: The foreseeable impact of technology on quantity surveying

Nosiyabonga Mongane 8 Jan 2024

Vodacom Business shares an important cybersecurity message

Cybersecurity

Vodacom Business shares an important cybersecurity message

Issued by We-Worldwide 13 Nov 2023

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Environment & Natural Resources

Giraffes could go extinct - the 5 biggest threats they face

Derek E. Lee 3 Nov 2023

Criminal Law

NPA under pressure to bring Lottery looters to court

Raymond Joseph 25 Oct 2023

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Environment & Natural Resources

Rhino killings decrease by 11%

1 Aug 2023

Andre de Ruyter, Group Chief Executive of state-owned power utility Eskom speaks during a media briefing in Johannesburg, South Africa, 31 January 2020. Reuters/Sumaya Hisham//File Photo

Criminal Law

Eskom says police investigating alleged poisoning of CEO

Wendell Roelf 9 Jan 2023

Image supplied. The 2022 Vodacom Journalist of the Year (VJOY) Awards for the Gauteng Region winners

Media

All the 2022 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards for the Gauteng Region

31 Oct 2022

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Radio & Audio

NAB campaign addresses infrastructure vandalism

10 Oct 2022

Cybersecurity for your SME: All you need to know

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity for your SME: All you need to know

Siyabonga Mabuza 7 Oct 2022

Poachers kill more rhinos in SA to meet Asian demand

Environment & Natural Resources

Poachers kill more rhinos in SA to meet Asian demand

Bhargav Acharya 2 Aug 2022

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Finance

Claim fraud on the rise: insurance firms hard-hit

Dr Jerry Chetty 24 Jun 2022

Sars intercepts 17 rhino horn at OR Tambo

Environment & Natural Resources

Sars intercepts 17 rhino horn at OR Tambo

6 Jun 2022

#SONA2022: Minerals Council urges speedy implementation to avert economic crisis

Mining

#SONA2022: Minerals Council urges speedy implementation to avert economic crisis

11 Feb 2022

Rhino poaching returns after pandemic-induced lull

Environment & Natural Resources

Rhino poaching returns after pandemic-induced lull

Tanisha Heiberg 2 Aug 2021

23 years' prison time for rhino poacher

Environment & Natural Resources

23 years' prison time for rhino poacher

18 Jun 2021

SA researchers hope to deter rhino poachers with radioactive markers

Environment & Natural Resources

SA researchers hope to deter rhino poachers with radioactive markers

Akhona Matshoba and Tanisha Heiberg 7 Jun 2021

Rhino poachers are back after South Africa eases lockdown restrictions

Environment & Natural Resources

Rhino poachers are back after South Africa eases lockdown restrictions

Akhona Matshoba and Shafiek Tassiem 4 May 2021

Illegal cigarette consignment to be destroyed

Criminal Law

Illegal cigarette consignment to be destroyed

8 Apr 2021

DSA calls on AU to help rid Africa of Ponzi schemes

Regulatory

DSA calls on AU to help rid Africa of Ponzi schemes

22 Jan 2021

Post-Covid world needs new approaches to tobacco taxes

Agro-processing

Post-Covid world needs new approaches to tobacco taxes

Zacharia Motsumi 27 Oct 2020

NSFAS students urged to use allowances to buy devices

Higher Education

NSFAS students urged to use allowances to buy devices

26 May 2020

Chantel Trotskie, senior CX sales manager at Oracle South Africa

Banking

Fighting financial crime with technology

Chantel Troskie 21 Nov 2019

SA mobile industry is winning war against fraudsters

Mobile & Apps

SA mobile industry is winning war against fraudsters

4 Nov 2019

How to prevent shipping container fraud

Cargo & Storage

How to prevent shipping container fraud

29 Mar 2019

Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo

Mining

#MiningIndaba2019: It's time to make Africa prosperous

Nicci Botha 7 Feb 2019

Professor Francis Petersen

Mining

Resurrecting SA's mining industry

Francis Petersen 31 Jan 2019

How to break the impasse between opposing camps in ivory trade debate

Environment & Natural Resources

How to break the impasse between opposing camps in ivory trade debate

Katarzyna Nowak, Benezeth Mutayoba, Phyllis Lee, R 23 May 2018

Beware of Valentine's Day online scams

Cybersecurity

Beware of Valentine's Day online scams

12 Feb 2018

10 nabbed for illegal explosives and corruption

Criminal Law

10 nabbed for illegal explosives and corruption

8 Feb 2018

Legalising rhino horn trade: don't charge in blind

Environment & Natural Resources

Legalising rhino horn trade: don't charge in blind

Harriet Davies-Mostert 18 Dec 2017

Wildlife in peril as poachers' net spreads

Environment & Natural Resources

Wildlife in peril as poachers' net spreads

2 Feb 2017

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Security

Counterfeit toys more than just criminal, dangerous

19 Dec 2016

The ban on rhino horn sales leaves open the question of conservation funding

Environment & Natural Resources

The ban on rhino horn sales leaves open the question of conservation funding

Keith Somerville 6 Oct 2016

Namibia, Zimbabwe lose vote to allow ivory trade: CITES

Environment & Natural Resources

Namibia, Zimbabwe lose vote to allow ivory trade: CITES

4 Oct 2016

After Langlaagte: DMR reveals the depth of illegal mining

Mining

After Langlaagte: DMR reveals the depth of illegal mining

21 Sep 2016

Rhino horn and conservation: to trade or not to trade, that is the question

Environment & Natural Resources

Rhino horn and conservation: to trade or not to trade, that is the question

Keith Somerville 15 Sep 2016

A Southern white rhinoceros is seen at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya © naturepl.com / Mark Carwardine / WWF

Environment & Natural Resources

Rhino poaching: 'overall rate remains unacceptably high' - WWF-SA

22 Jan 2016

Survey finds organisations lack confidence in ability to detect sophisticated cyber attacks

Cybersecurity

Survey finds organisations lack confidence in ability to detect sophisticated cyber attacks

13 Nov 2015

SAICB and Gauteng Province launch anti-fraud programme

Automotive

SAICB and Gauteng Province launch anti-fraud programme

5 Oct 2015