Under recently ousted President Zuma, the Gupta family made millions in South Africa. Some of that money may have been used to purchase diamonds in a scheme which defrauded a state program to help poor black dairy farmers.

Koos Mthimkhulu, a black cattle-farmer, inspects his herd at his farm in Eastern Free State Province, South Africa, 2012. Mthimkhulu was born on a white-owned farm, and at the end of minority rule in 1994 was selected for a reform program whereby the government bought agricultural land from white farmers and handed it over to blacks with legitimate claims on the territory. Photo: Reuters / Siphiwe Sibeko

South Africa on Monday opened a public inquiry into alleged corruption under ex-president Jacob Zuma, six months after he stepped down amid a scandal that encompasses 783 corruption charges and a multi billion-dollar arms deal, the BBC reports.

The trial of former South African President Jacob Zuma who faces 16 charges of corruption, is adjourned until November 30th, Reuters reported.

The son of former South African president Jacob Zuma is to appear in the Specialized Commercial Crime Court in Johannesburg where he will be charged with corruption, the New York Times reported Sunday.

Following his resignation last month, former South African president Jacob Zuma is facing 16 corruption charges connected to over 700 instances of wrongdoing, the Associated Press reported Friday. 

Cameroon’s government is up in arms after our investigation into president Paul Biya’s extended “private trips” away from his own country. Here’s how we counted his days abroad and built our story.

A boy walks past a newspaper kiosk in the Wada district of Cameroon's capital of Yaounde, in the run-up to the presidential elections of October 2011. Photo (c): Reuters / Akintunde Akinleye

India’s state-owned Bank of Baroda -- one of the country’s largest -- played a crucial role in the financial machinations of South Africa’s politically influential Gupta family, allowing them to move hundreds of millions of dollars originating in alleged dirty deals into offshore accounts, an investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Project (OCCRP) and The Hindu has found.

A man walks past the Bank of Baroda’s headquarters in Mumbai, India, May 3, 2016. Photo Reuters/Danish Siddiqui.

Major gaps between South African and Namibian legislation that regulates the endangered species trade allowed for the sale of at least 13 white rhino bulls from a South African game park to a Russian big game hunting outfit in Namibia. Nine of these rhinos were found to have died.

An adult and baby rhino at Kruger National Park in South Africa. (Photo: Violator1, Flickr)

Kenya’s anti-corruption authorities say they will retrieve close to US$3.7million that was taken illegally by former Kenya Power officials, The Standard reported Friday.

South African President Jacob Zuma finally resigned Wednesday evening, after hemming and hawing his way through Tuesday’s announcement that his party, the African National Congress (ANC), no longer stood behind him.

South African prosecutors moved to freeze US$ 130 million worth of assets held by McKinsey & Co. and Trillian Capital Partner, a company with close ties to the allegedly corrupt Gupta family, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.

Jacob Zuma, the outgoing South African President, established a long-awaited commission of inquiry on Tuesday to investigate allegations of private interests having steered his government’s policy.

A school in a remote town in South Africa owned by a chicken farmer with a checkered business history was chosen by that country’s national lottery to handle almost US$ 3.7 million in grant money intended to help poor or under-served communities.

Logo of South African National Lottery (Credit: wikimedia.org).

A South African court thwarted on Wednesday president Jacob Zuma’s attempt to block an investigation into his abuse of office and ordered the inquiry to be launched and finished within 180 days.

Authorities in five African countries have rescued 500 victims of human trafficking, including 236 children, in a series of raids that have led to the arrest of 40 people, INTERPOL said on Thursday.

If you look closely at the details of a 2014 contract to bring Chinese-manufactured locomotives to South Africa, you can tell that something more than transportation was going on.

Photo: Bob Adams, flickr

In partnership with Nedbank, one of South Africa’s largest banks, companies controlled by or connected to the wealthy and politically-connected Gupta family via its lieutenants extracted more than 1 billion rand (US$ 67.2 million) from Transnet, a state-owned company charged with constructing rail, port, and other transportation infrastructure to serve South African citizens.

Credit: www.transnet.net

South Africa's largest labor union went on strike Wednesday protesting corruption within the country's ruling party, CNBC reported.

South African politicians have claimed that a local councillor, gunned down just weeks after receiving a death threat, was killed for her "fight against corruption", local media reported Tuesday.

South Africa’s highest court ruled Thursday that the Speaker of the National Assembly has the power to decide whether lawmakers can hold a secret ballot vote of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma.