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BANKS BEWARE
ONE telephone number. Two years. Thousands of calls. Multiple victims. One bank. And a confidentiality clause attached to every settlement. That sentence, drawn from a detailed case study submitted to IOL by a South African fraud investigator, could...
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COLONEL’S COCAINE CONSPIRACY
THE Madlanga Judicial Commission of Inquiry has questioned the involvement of Colonel Gavin Jacob, the Hawks' Serious Organised Crime Investigation Unit commander in Durban, in the disappearance of cocaine and mandrax exhibits in drugs-related...
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THE R4.77BN MYSTERY
SEVERAL South African state institutions are facing allegations of misconduct, conflicts of interest, and the failure to fulfill their mandates in managing the estate of the late Black industrialist Paulos Sello Mahlangu. These claims come from his...
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DID THE SAPS GET PLAYED?
FOLLOWERS of the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry must brace themselves for another damning testimony of how the South African Police Service (SAPS) was shortchanged into paying private companies billions of rand for the right to use computer software...
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RAMAPHOSA’S SHIELD CRACKS
THE Constitutional Court did not merely revive Section 89 but appeared to constitutionalise accountability itself in its recent judgment in the Economic Freedom Fighters and Another v Speaker of the National Assembly and Others matter. However, the...
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STOLEN MILIONS
THIS week's Constitutional Court judgment did more than reopen the Phala Phala matter. It tore through the political and institutional shield that had protected President Cyril Ramaphosa for nearly four years and placed South Africa's accountability...
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Will the ANC lose more support in the local elections? Analysts weigh in
WITH the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) contesting the local government elections for the first time this year, the ANC might have a good reason to be worried, especially in KwaZulu-Natal, based on the outcome of the last general elections. These are...
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SAPS IN CRISIS
NATIONAL police commissioner General Fannie Masemola's precautionary suspension by President Cyril Ramaphosa, after being criminally charged for violating the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), will not fix the challenges facing the SA Police...
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A window into the EMPD corruption scandal?
EKURHULENI Metro Police acting chief Lieutenant General Julius Mkhwanazi has repeatedly stepped into the spotlight over the past year, not only for the alleged corruption and blue-light scandals engulfing the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD)...
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Can justice prevail against Booysen and the Hawks?
THE uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) has this week approached the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, seeking an order to reinstate criminal charges against members of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) and its former head, Major General...
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Ramaphosa under f ire as ministers’ scandals spark fury
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa finds himself once again facing mounting scrutiny over the alleged misconduct of two members of his Cabinet. Social Development Minister Sisisi Tolashe and Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie are under fire,...
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R42 BILLION MISSPENT, ZERO CONSEQUENCES
THE Auditor-General of South Africa, Tsakani Maluleke, this week issued a scathing indictment of the national and provincial governments, warning that the new administration is moving too slowly to fix systemic governance failures that are crippling...
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PANIC AT FUEL PUMPS
SOUTH Africa's fuel supply system is facing a critical disconnect. While the government and industry insist reserves are stable and urge the public not to panic-buy, wholesale fuel suppliers warn that diesel is not reaching essential services, creating...
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LEKOTA LAID TO REST
THE reign of “Terror” came to an end in Bloemfontein yesterday, as COPE founder and ex-defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota was laid to rest. Lekota, who got the nickname “Terror” for his tough style on the soccer field in his younger days, was honoured at...
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CORRUPTION UNCOVERED
ATTORNEY and certified fraud examiner Sarah-Jane Trent revealed unsettling connections involving high-ranking government officials and key institutions, echoing the narrative of alleged honey traps aimed at capturing influential figures. This played...
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Iranians in Istanbul jittery but jubilant
“WAR is no good but it's better than the regime killing our children,” said a 39-year-old Iranian in Istanbul, confessing he was “happy” that US and Israeli warplanes were attacking Iran. Like many Iranians living in exile in neighbouring Turkey,...
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BUDGET 2026: Will minister empower SA’s youth?
FINANCE Minister Enoch Godongwana walks into this year’s Budget facing a brutal arithmetic problem: How to fund a strained state, stabilise public debt and ignite economic growth powerful enough to dent a youth unemployment crisis that has hardened...
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WORDS TO ACTION:
FOLLOWING the classification of Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) as a National Disaster in late 2025, the national conversation has shifted from legislative progress to a demand for immediate, measurable action. A year after President Cyril...
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LOVE, LIES, AND CORRUPTION
THE Madlanga Commission heard this week shocking details of how two senior police officers were wrapped around the hand of suspected crime mastermind Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala, who pampered them with alleged ill-gotten money and gifts. Those senior...
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RAMAPHOSA’S INACTION: Is Mchunu untouchable?
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa must just fire Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, instead of keeping him on special leave while enjoying salary and ministerial benefits at the expense of taxpayers, said Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA). This was in response...
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Education experts warn against illegal exclusion
CIVIL rights and education experts have warned that South African citizens have no legal right to pressure school principals to deny admission to children of foreign nationals, regardless of their immigration status. The warning follows two weeks of...
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