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A murder trial gripping South Africa took a sharp and disturbing turn on Thursday when Fortunate Masilela, the first accused in the killing of Jabulile Ntimba, told the Boksburg Magistrate’s Court that police officers tortured her and coerced her into…
A Warning That Came Back to Haunt Him When taxi mogul Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni stood before President Cyril Ramaphosa at an ANC campaign rally in KwaNdebele in 2024, his words were direct, almost theatrical in their boldness. With ANC chairperson…
It began, as so many South African corruption scandals do, with a government tender — this one worth a staggering R360 million, awarded by the South African Police Service to a healthcare company called Medicare24 Tshwane District, owned by a…
When It’s Your Word Against Your Boss’s Picture this: you’re sitting in a disciplinary hearing, palms sweating, facing a manager who is telling a version of events that bears little resemblance to what actually happened. No witnesses, no paper trail…
A Conviction That History Cannot Simply Erase South Africa has always wrestled with the ghosts of its apartheid past, but rarely do those ghosts announce themselves as mayoral candidates. The Freedom Front Plus has put forward Bill Harington — a…
South Africa’s 2026 local government elections are fast approaching, and ActionSA has fired its opening shot with a sweeping manifesto that puts broken municipalities squarely in its crosshairs. Launched on Saturday, 26 September at Johannesburg City Hall by party president…
A Political Storm Over a Suspended Top Cop The uMkhonto weSizwe Party formally demanded on Wednesday that President Cyril Ramaphosa immediately lift the suspension of National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola, arguing that the withdrawal of all criminal charges against…
Picture a village where gunfire punctuates the night. Where women gather their children and whatever they can carry, abandoning homes their families have lived in for generations, not because of war in the conventional sense, but because armed groups have…
A Cape Town law enforcement officer lost his job — and then lost his fight to get it back. The Labour Court has dismissed a review application brought by the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) on behalf of officer…
South Africa has the laws. It has the policies. It has, at least on paper, the billions of rands required to fight corruption and keep its criminal justice system clean. And yet, week after week, the Madlanga Commission is laying…
