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Batohi never investigated Cato Manor unit, says Ncqukaitobi
Byadmin December 15, 2025

Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi on Friday accused national director of public prosecutions Shamila Batohi of failing to investigate allegations of human rights abuses linked to former KwaZulu-Natal head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (the Hawks) Johan Booysen and members of the specialised Cato Manor police unit. At the Nkabinde inquiry into South Gauteng director…

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SA declares gender-based violence and femicide a national disaster amid rising crisis
Byadmin November 21, 2025

The government has officially classified gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) as a national disaster. The head of the National Disaster Management Centre, Bongani Sithole, made the decision after reviewing new reports from government and civil society. The centre found that the ongoing violence poses serious and immediate risks to people’s safety and now meets the…

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International scientists call for more collaboration from South African researchers
Byadmin November 17, 2025

International astrophysicists have commended South Africa’s development of radio telescopes for astronomy research, but have called for more collaboration from the country’s institutes to advance research in the field. Three major radio telescopes are being developed in South Africa. The first, KAT-7, was completed in 2010 and served as a small seven-dish prototype to test…

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Handover of 121 dockets to the South African Police Service was ‘messy’, Madlanga commission hears
Byadmin November 17, 2025

The disbandment of a KwaZulu-Natal-based political killings task team was a surprise, and the handover of 121 dockets it was working on to the South African Police Service (SAPS) head office was “messy”, a member of the team told the Madlanga commission on Monday. “Within 24 hours, [task team] members had to try and scan…

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Madlanga: Sibiya removed 121 dockets for no apparent reason
Byadmin November 17, 2025

Suspended deputy national commissioner for crime Shadrack Sibiya moved 121 case dockets from the KwaZulu-Natal-based political killings task team without a proper explanation, a witness told the Madlanga Commission on Monday. Mary Motsepe, the head of serious and violent crimes, told the commission, chaired by retired judge Mbuyiseli Madlanga, that she was instructed to collect…

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Hawks interfered in Molefe arrest, says political killings task team member
Byadmin October 29, 2025

The forensic evidence team leader of the political killings task team told the Mandlanga commission that the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (the Hawks) interfered in the arrests of murder co-accused Katiso Molefe and Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala. Maxwell Wanda said that, during a takedown operation at Molefe’s Sandhurst residence in Gauteng, a group of Hawks…

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UPDATED: Francesca Albanese: The world is watching its conscience collapse
Byadmin October 27, 2025

Francesca Albanese stood before more than 3 500 people at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on Saturday evening and told them the world was watching its conscience collapse. “The laws created to stop states from destroying each other are now being used to justify that destruction,” she said. Delivering the 23rd Nelson Mandela Annual…

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‘I’m not here to make you comfortable’, says UN’s Francesca Albanese
Byadmin October 27, 2025

Francesca Albanese is not in South Africa to make anyone feel comfortable. The UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories has come to deliver the 23rd Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture — and she is already testing whether the world still recognises moral clarity when it hears it. Ahead of Saturday’s lecture, she told journalists…

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ad hoc committee | AKA murder | Bheki Cele | Bongani Mpungose | Crime Intelligence | National

Cele: I would have avoided the Marikana massacre
Byadmin October 26, 2025

Former police minister Bheki Cele has criticised former national police commissioner Riah Phiyega over her handling of the Marikana mine killings. Cele told parliament’s ad hoc committee looking into police corruption that, if he had been in office during the Marikana massacre, in which 34 striking mineworkers were shot dead by police in 2012, the…

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Madlanga: Witness A implicates senior Gauteng officials in drug cartels and syndicated hits
Byadmin October 20, 2025

The Madlanga commission heard further testimony of police corruption on Monday from an anonymous police investigator who alleged that senior Gauteng officials were linked to drug cartels and criminal syndicates implicated in contract killings. Witness A, a serving officer in the organised crime unit, told the commission that in May 2024 after the murder of…

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