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Police deputy commissioner Shadrack Sibiya admits to knowing Vusi Matlala, Brown...

Suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner for crime detection Lt-Gen Shadrack Sibiya has admitted to knowing controversial businessman Brown Mogotsi and murder-accused Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala. Sibiya...

‘Cyril Ramaphosa was merely walking past Morgan Maumela’s house’

President Cyril Ramaphosa was merely walking past the house of controversial tenderpreneur Hangwani Morgan Maumela in September 2023, said his spokesperson Vincent Magwenya. Magwenya said...

Tensions rise in ad hoc committee over MPs who opened cases...

The parliamentary ad hoc committee probing KwaZulu-Natal top cop Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi's allegations has decided to continue its proceedings in the presence of conflicted members...

Livestream | Deputy police boss Shadrack Sibiya testifies at parliament ad...

Suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner for crime detection Lt-Gen Shadrack Sibiya will today deliver his testimony before the Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee probing allegations...

Cyril Ramaphosa, Barbara Creecy mourn as 42 Zimbabweans, Malawians die in...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed sorrow over the deadly bus crash that claimed 42 lives near Makhado in Limpopo. The bus was reportedly travelling from...

Media houses oppose Madlanga commission in-camera testimony application

Media houses News24 and Daily Maverick are opposing the application by the Madlanga commission's evidence leaders to have this week's testimony be heard in...

Livestream | Mandlanga Commission of Inquiry, Monday 13 October 2025

After a 12-day break, the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into criminality, political interference, and corruption in the criminal justice system will resume its proceedings...

ANCWL catfight could harm party

The Free State ANCWL provincial secretary and Mangaung Metro’s MMC for public safety and security are embroiled in an embarrassing, vulgar-laced catfight that has...

Gwen Ramokgopa distances herself from plot against Mashatile, Mbalula

ANC treasurer-general Dr Gwen Ramokgopa has taken the now-ugly party presidential race the legal route in a bid to stop the spread of viral...

O’Sullivan asks Madlanga for protection

Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan fears for his life after receiving threats following what he describes as KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s incitement of...

DA forced to look for a black face to fight for...

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...

Floyd Shivambu wanted to be Zuma and Malema – Khanyile

Newly appointed MK Party national head of mobilizing, Bonginkosi Khanyile, believes Africa Mayibuye Movement president Floyd Shivambu’s weakness is his lack of appreciation that...

North West bus company says MEC ignored affordable bid

A Johannesburg-based bus company owner has taken North West Transport MEC Wessels Morweng and his department officials to the Mahikeng High Court to interdict...

War veterans threaten mass action

Leaders of the Mkhonto we Sizwe Liberation War Veterans (MKLWV), a successor to the disbanded uMkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA), have threatened...

‘Releasing Katiso Molefe places witnesses’ lives in grave danger’ — EFF

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) are demanding that witnesses and whistleblowers in the DJ Sumbody murder suspect Katiso “KT” Molefe cases immediately be placed...

‘I reported Senzo Mchunu to Cyril Ramaphosa over task team,’ says...

National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola accused politicians of undermining the South African Police Service (SAPS) by interfering in operational decisions, particularly the controversial disbandment...

Top cop Fannie Masemola grilled over delayed action to save PKTT

Members of Parliament have grilled police national commissioner Gen Fannie Masemola over the delay in responding to the disbandment of the political killings task...

‘I wasn’t given direct answer why Senzo Mchunu disbanded task team’...

National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola testified before Parliament's ad hoc committee, asserting his suitability for the role while raising concerns over alleged unlawful...

ANC, ABC councillors gang up to oust IFP mayor in KwaZulu-Natal

In a tit-for-tat move, the ANC and Abantu Batho Congress (ABC) councillors in the Umvoti local municipality anchored in Greytown in KwaZulu-Natal have ganged...

‘Current state of policing is challenging’ – Fannie Masemola

South Africa’s National Police (SAPS) national commissioner General Fannie Masemola has described the state of policing as challenging compared to 30 years back. Masemola said...

‘My SAPS brothers betrayed me,’ says top cop Shadrack Sibiya after...

“I feel like Joseph, whose brothers threw him in the pit,” suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner for crime detection Lt-Gen Shadrack Sibiya said after...

‘2007 ANC elective conference destabilised the SAPS’ — Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi

KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has told Parliament that the 2007 ANC elective conference in Polokwane marked the beginning of the collapse of...

ANC Youth League renews call for ANC to withdraw from GPU,...

The ANC Youth League in KwaZulu-Natal has renewed its call that the mother body withdraws from the government of provincial unity (GPU) led by...

Senzo Mchunu lied, Brown Mogotsi’s not comrade but criminal – Nhlanhla...

KZN police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has accused Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, who has been placed on special leave, of constantly lying about his...

‘I won’t bow down to Edward Kieswetter’ – Lucky Montana

The war of words between MK Party MP and ex-Prasa CEO Lucky Montana and Sars looks far from over. Montana has put his foot down...

Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi wants DA MP Dianne Kohler-Barnard probed for ‘exposing’ safe...

KZN police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has called for an investigation into DA MP Dianne Kohler-Barnard for allegedly leaking classified crime intelligence information. Mkhwanazi told...

Afrika Mayibuye Movement rejects CRL Commission’s plan to regulate religion

Floyd Shivambu’s Afrika Mayibuye Movement has come out strongly against the (Cultural, Religious and Linguistic) CRL Rights Commission’s latest initiative to regulate churches and...

Big Five drug cartel members are amassing state tenders – Nhlanhla...

KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has detailed why the names of the three members behind the so-called Big Five drug cartel have not...

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