Sunday World
FLOODS AFTERMATH
A woman waits after receiving a food parcel from Gift of the Givers in Mbaula village near Giyani yesterday. The village was one of the hardest hit by floods following heavy rains last week.
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‘ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WILL COLLAPSE SA’
Limpopo Premier Dr Phophi Ramathuba has warned that the unchecked influx of undocumented foreigners threatens a “spectacular collapse” of South Africa’s public services and social stability, in remarks that reiterate her long-standing stance on...
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PLOT TO KILL BLACKS WITH HIV EXPOSED
Shocking allegations have surfaced that apartheid-era operatives orchestrated a campaign to spread HIV/AIDS among black South Africans to reduce the population ahead of the country’s first non-racial elections. The claims, detailed in a new book, Who...
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PROSECUTORS, LAWYERS ON CRIMINALS PAYROLL
Corrupt prosecutors and lawyers are paid ridiculous retainer fees by dangerous criminals to secure bail for these lawbreakers who afterwards return to communities and recommit crime. This is contained in the classified report penned by suspended...
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CYRIL STARES DOWN COUP PLOTTERS
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s dramatic “meltdown” at a recent ANC national executive committee (NEC) meeting was directed at deputy ministers Mondli Gungubele and Joe Phaahla who are accused of leading a plot to oust him. According to multiple NEC...
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MAJODINA RECEIVES DEATH THREATS
Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina is receiving death threats from unknown hoodlums after she embarked on a crusade to combat corruption and malfeasance at various water boards in South Africa. Sunday World can exclusively reveal that...
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STATE WANTS TO SPY ON YOUR WHATSAPP
The office of the Inspector-general of Intelligence (IGI) has asked the police minister to plead with the cabinet to change legislation to allow spooks to intercept your Whatsapp conversations. This is because law enforcement agencies are frustrated...
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Mihlali’s hefty tax bill headache
Celebrities are characterised by showbiz commentators and polymaths as individuals who strive for stardom and then conceal themselves from the world by donning straws and shades. However, Mihlali Ndamase, a well-known content producer, appears to use...
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SA DRUG LORDS’ NAMES EXPOSED
A confidential police report submitted to parliament by suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu has revealed the identities of drug mafiosi in South Africa, with Nigerian drug lords dominating the illicit drug trafficking business in the country. The...
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‘MKHWANAZI COPS STOLE MY ROLEX WATCHES’
The wife of a Mozambican businessman and suspected kidnapper has stated in her affidavit to the Hawks that rogue cops working with Kwazulu-natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi stole her six expensive Rolex watches, other jewellery items and...
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DA HUNTS FOR BLACK FACE IN MAYORAL RACE
The DA’S decision to pick Helen Zille as its Joburg mayoral candidate has forced it to abandon its “merit” stance, and it is now looking for an affirmative action candidate to take the reins in Ekurhuleni. Sunday World can reveal that, of all the...
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MTHETHWA’S DEATH PREMONITION SHOCK
South Africa’s ambassador to France Nathi Mthethwa informed his associates a few days before his tragic death that his deceased father was calling him. The startling titbit, which gives credence to claims that he committed hara-kiri or he had a...
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RAMAPHOSA EXIT HEADACHE FOR ANC
The ANC does not know what to do, at least for now, if President Cyril Ramaphosa keeps to his reported plan to quit as head of state after the upcoming G20 summit to be hosted in South Africa. This is according to certain ANC’S top seven members that...
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ZUMA’S DAUGHTER ATTACKS MK PARTY
Thuthukile Zuma, the daughter of MK Party president Jacob Zuma, has fired a broadside at her father’s party, saying it lacks clear ideology and difficult to follow. Speaking on the latest episode of the Sunday World Engage podcast, Thuthukile, a...
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WHY MATLALA AND WIFE WANTED ME DEAD — THOBEJANE
Actress Tebogo Thobejane has provided a detailed witness statement implicating incarcerated businessman Vusi “Cat” Matlala in the killing of Babita Deokaran and his lawyer friend, who reported him to the South African Revenue Services (Sars) for tax...
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AFRIFORUM SABOTAGES MKHWANAZI UNIT INVESTIGATIONS – MASEMOLA
National Police Commissioner Gen Fannie Masemola has accused Afriforum of brazen interference, deceit and outright sabotage of political task team’s investigations into political killings in Kwazulu-natal. Masemola made the allegations in a...
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CHIEFS DRIBBLE SEKHUKHUNE OVER MAART SELL-ON FEE
Sekhukhune United have given an ultimatum to Kaizer Chiefs to pay them over half a million rands from the transfer fee they received from the sale of midfield maestro Yusuf Maart or face legal action. The ultimatum was issued after Chiefs turned a...
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UCT’S FREE DEGREE ‘BRIBE’ TO RAPE COMPLAINANT PROBED
Higher Education Minister Buti Manamela has launched a fresh probe into allegations that University of Cape Town (UCT) offered a student a degree to buy her silence after being raped by a professor. The complainant, who is known to Sunday World but...
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DA THREAT TO REMOVE RAMAPHOSA A DECLARATION OF WAR – ANC
The ANC’S one-year analysis of the government of national unity (GNU) has identified the DA’S threat to unseat President Cyril Ramaphosa from power through a motion of no-confidence as a “weapon of mass destruction” and the “ultimate declaration of...
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COPS HACKED RAMAPHOSA’S INBOX
The SAPS’ crime intelligence (CI) division has been fingered as the culprits who hacked President Cyril Ramaphosa’s emails while he was serving as deputy president. The unit was fingered in an affidavit deposed to by police whistleblower Brig Tiyani...
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WHY DJ SUMBODY WAS ASSASSINATED
The assassination of popular music producer and club owner DJ Sumbody, real name Oupa Sefoka, has been linked to a violent underworld feud over a multi-million-rand drug consignment that went missing in police custody in Kwazulu-natal that , allegedly...
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BROWN MOGOTSI A POLICE SPY!
Police Minister Senzo Mchunu’s alleged associate Brown Mogotsi has let the cat out of the bag, claiming that he is an undercover police operative and was crucially involved in the dramatic arrest of South Africa’s most notorious fugitive, Thabo Bester,...
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MCHUNU ASKS RAMAPHOSA TO PROBE HIM
Police minister pleads with the president to complete investigations on allegations of political interference within two months
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MABUZA’S DESPERATE BID TO SAVE HIS LIFE
In a desperate bid to save his life, former deputy president David “DD” Mabuza quietly embarked on a campaign to raise money to leave the country for Russia to seek medical care. Sunday World can exclusively reveal that some three weeks ago, Mabuza,...
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ZUMA THROWS HLOPHE UNDER THE BUS
MK Party president blames his deputy for embarrassing court defeat to Mpumalanga convener Mary Phadi
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DA MP REBUKED FOR ANCESTRAL EPISODES
DA member of parliament Karabo Khakhau, who is also a spiritual healer, was allegedly subjected to a quasi disciplinary hearing where she was reprimanded by the organisation’s chief whip in parliament George Michalakis for sitting on the floor – and...
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MOKONYANE LAWYERS UP TO CHALLENGE ZONDO’S REPORT
Breaking years of silence, ANC first deputy secretary-general Nomvula Mokonyane has revealed that she has taken the Zondo commission report to court to review its recommendations that she should be charged and criminally prosecuted for...
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AND THE KILLINGS JUST WON’T STOP!
Since Olorato Mongale was brutally murdered two weeks ago on Africa Day, May 25, at least 11 women have been murdered across South Africa as gender-based violence (GBV) tightens its grip. Eleven women were killed between May 25 and June 7...
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Unisa: South Africa's premier producer of world-class graduates
With its autumn graduations under way at venues across the country, the University of South Africa takes great pride in again producing the largest cohort of graduates in the country – at all levels from diplomas to doctorates. Professor Puleng...
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CREDITOR GUNS FOR BOBBY’S CHIEFS SHARES
A Joburg company is moving to sequestrate the estate of financially embattled Kaizer Chiefs team manager Bobby Motaung and also attach for the second time his shares at Amakhosi for failing to pay it more than R4.5-million. Pent Up Investment cc has...
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MANTASHE’S SON SPEAKS OUT
ANC national chairperson, Gwede Mantashe’s son Buyambo Mantashe feels prejudiced by a decision taken by Minister of Higher Education and Training Nobuhle Nkabane, to rescind all Services Sector Education and Training Authority (Seta) board chairpersons...
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SECURITY CONCERNS AS FOREIGNERS HOLD SENSITIVE STATE JOBS
Multiple government departments have shockingly employed foreign nationals in “strategic and sensitive positions” – some linked to state security and governance. The bombshell, which exposes glaring gaps in South Africa’s national security oversight,...
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FEMALE MINE WORKERS STRIPPED NAKED!
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is taking legal action against Kopanong Gold mine management, which allegedly forced its female employees to strip naked so that security guards could plunge their hands into their private parts looking for...
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MAMKHIZE DRAGS PSL TO COURT OVER CLUB’S EXPULSION
Royal AM president Shauwn “Mamkhize” Mkhize has filed an urgent application in the Joburg High Court to declare unlawful and set aside the decision by the PSL board of governors to expel her team from the money-spinning league. Mkhize is pleading with...
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MASHATILE ‘SURVIVES ASSASSINATION’ ATTEMPT
Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s office says his official car was shot at several times while he was being driven from a recent ANC NEC meeting in the east of Johannesburg in an incident suspected to be an attempt on his life. Sunday World has been...
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Waterfall estates in illegal water connection scandal
Three estates of Waterfall City, a prime residential area where some of the who’s who in politics, business and A-list celebrities reside, have been exposed as a hub of illegal water connections that has cost the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan...
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IT’S OVER!
After several decades of illustrious political career and astute leadership, ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe says he will not throw his hat in the ring for any top seven leadership position when his current term ends in December...
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MASHATILE WARNED OF PLOT TO CHARGE HIM
Spokesperson Keith Khoza says the ploy exposes ongoing malicious and political prosecution against the deputy president
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KNIVES OUT FOR NTSHAVHENI
Knives are out for Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni after an intelligence report accused her of abusing state resources to “further political and personal ambitions”. The report, seen by Sunday World, claims Ntshavheni initiated a...
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ANOTHER MEYIWA MURDER COP’S LIFE IN DANGER
• Political violence researcher Mary de Haas, says armed attackers stormed Warrant Officer Makhubo’s home in what seems to have been an attempt on his life • She pleads with NPA and Hawks to intervene, saying people who investigated the docket that...
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ANC BIGWIGS GUN FOR MBALULA
The five ANC heavyweights who have been hauled before the disciplinary hearing on various charges, have thrown down the gauntlet to secretary-general Fikile Mbalula to prove that he obtained authorisation from the national executive committee (NEC) to...
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SALENG’S PARENTS REVEAL PLAYER’S PAY WOES
Orlando Pirates star Monnapule Saleng has plunged into a state of depression and wants to leave the Soweto outfit because he believes the club is short paying him. Saleng’s worried parents revealed these intimate details of his troubles with the club...
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PLOT TO KILL MEYIWA TOP COP
The real mastermind behind the murder of former Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates captain, Senzo Meyiwa, is allegedly targeting the lead investigator, Brigadier Bongani Ginida, with a plot to kill him. Gininda, who is the head of the SAPS cold case...
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MBEKI HINTS ZUMA WAS A SPY
Former president Thabo Mbeki stunned ANC national executive committee (NEC) members when he tore into his successor Jacob Zuma, questioning whether the trial that resulted in his conviction and imprisonement on Robben Island took place. Mbeki, who...
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FINALLY, BAYABUYA!
A leading cultural expert has warned that families of the 14 SANDF soldiers who were killed in combat in the DRC should expedite the process of repatriating their spirits from the war-torn country to avoid misfortune. Mkhulu Nsingiza, a historian and...
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SANDF MOWED DOWN HUNDREDS OF M23 REBELS
South African soldiers “fought like heroes” and killed at least 600 M23 rebels during a 24-hour gunfight in Sake, east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) , where they lost nine of their members last week. This information was revealed to Sunday...
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SEX SCANDAL ROCKS ZUMA’S MK PARTY
umkhonto we Sizwe Party Mpumalanga convener and member of the provincial legislature Mary Phadi has written to the party’s president, Jacob Zuma, informing him that one of the organisation’s top eight officials tried to bed her, and when she spurned...
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ZIZI DRAGS ZONDO TO COURT
ANC national executive committee (NEC) member and former minister Zizi Kodwa has approached the Pretoria High Court to review and set aside the adverse findings and recommendations against him by the Zondo commission of inquiry. In an explosive...
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STATE FUNDED AK-47 USED TO KILL MAGAQA
The assassination of former ANC Youth League secretary-general Sindiso Magaqa was carried out using stateowned weapons. One of the hitmen was a registered police informer on the crime intelligence payroll. Sunday World can today exclusively reveal...
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NO FREE RIDE TO JAN 8 FOR CADRES
The ANC has directed its cadres to pay their own way to the party’s upcoming January 8 gig in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township in what is seen as a radical departure from tradition where members’ travel and accommodation needs are taken care of by the...
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ZULU KING LANDS STATE IN HOT WATER
Zulu monarch, King Misuzulu Kazwelithini, has landed the Kwazulu-natal provincial government in the soup. Sunday World can exclusively reveal that an international fixer is suing Kwazulu-natal Premier Thamsanqa Ntuli for more than R300000 for an...
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SIMELANE REJECTED BATOHI’S R900K CANDIDATE
No-nonsense former justice minister Thembi Simelane had rejected a request by National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) head Shamila Batohi to renew Adv Paul Pretorius’ R4500 per hour contract, days before President Cyril Ramaphosa removed her from the...
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POLICE SEIZE FIREARMS FROM MAMKHIZE’S HOME
Socialite and businesswoman Shauwn Mkhize, better known as Mamkhize, is once again in trouble with the law following the discovery of an arsenal of weapons, enough to start a mini-war, at her posh La Lucia mansion in Durban. The arsenal, which Sunday...
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SAFA FAILS TO PAY BAFANA’S MATCH FEES
The troubled South African Football Association (Safa) now stands accused of failing to pay Bafana Bafana and Banyana Banyana players their appearance fees estimated to be in the region of more than R6-million. The latest crisis was revealed by SA...
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EFF BANS NDLOZI FROM ELECTIVE CONFERENCE
In a dramatic turn of events, the EFF has barred its member of parliament and former spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi from attending its four-day elective conference scheduled to take place in Nasrec, southern Johannesburg next month. Ndlozi has been...
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ANC COMRADES PLOTTED MY PROSECUTION – KODWA
ANC national executive committee (NEC) member and former minister of sports, arts and culture, Zizi Kodwa, has imputed his arrest by the Hawks two months ago to a malicious plot by some of his comrades within the liberation movement. Kodwa, who...
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BAPELA FIGHTS BACK AGAINST MBALULA
ANC national executive committee (NEC) member Obed Bapela, who has been removed from his position as deputy chair of the international relations subcommittee following his controversial trip to Morocco, is set to counterargue his alleged misconduct...
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TITO MBOWENI’S FAMILY DEMANDS APOLOGY FOR MBEKI SNUB
The angry family of late former South African Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni wants those who disregarded his last wish for former president Thabo Mbeki speak at his funeral to apologise because “lentswe la mohu ga le tshelwe”. In an email sent to...
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SACP BEEFS UP MAPAILA’S SECURITY
The SACP has beefed up security for its general secretary, Solly Mapaila – an ardent critic of the ANC/DA-LED government of national unity (GNU) – in response to a cyber attack aimed at intercepting his communication and compromising his privacy. The...
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PRESIDENCY BULLIED SIMELANE TO LIE
Minister of Justice Thembi Simelane was allegedly bullied by the Presidency into issuing a press statement denying that she told the ANC integrity commission that President Cyril Ramaphosa knew about her R575600 loan from corruption-accused Gundo...
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SIMELANE DROPS RAMAPHOSA BOMBSHELL ON LOAN
Minister of Justice Thembi Simelane dropped a bombshell when she told the ANC’S Intergirty Commission that President Cyril Ramaphosa was aware that she had obtained a R575600 loan from corruption-accused Gundo Wealth Solutions before appointing her to...
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MBALULA LOBBIES SIMELANE TO RESIGN
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has allegedly pressured embattled Justice Minister Thembi Simelane to resign following claims that she received gratuitous payments of R575600 from VBS Mutual Bank fraud-accused Gundo Wealth Solutions. This despite...
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BLOW TO NPA’S GRAFT CASE AGAINST KOKO
Prosecuting authority’s star witness, ABB, makes a U-turn and admits in court papers that it has no evidence directly incriminating the former Eskom executive
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