The Madlanga Commission dropped some absolutely horrifying footage showing EMPD officers torturing Emmanuel Mbense until he died, then messing with the crime scene to hide what went down. The videos reveal cops suffocating the 51-year-old dad from Brakpan with plastic bags while he begged for medical help, and other clips caught them planning to chuck his body down a mine shaft to cover their tracks. This whole thing came out during hearings looking into police corruption and brutality across the system.
The kicker is that a witness named Marius van der Merwe testified about the cover-up scheme, but he got shot outside his house right after sharing what he knew. His family had to bounce into hiding because everyone figured it was...
Julius Malema booted AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo out of the EFF after the monarch took a trip to Israel and met with government officials there. The party leader went off during a press conference, saying anybody who buddies up with Israel while Gaza is getting wrecked cannot represent the movement or claim membership. Malema doubled down by pointing out that Parliament already voted to shut down the Israeli embassy in South Africa, but President Cyril Ramaphosa keeps dragging his feet on actually doing it.
The king tried playing it off as a personal diplomatic thing that should not get turned into politics, but the EFF was not having it. Malema clarified that the royal family as a whole still has good standing with the...
A massive truck wreck near Van Reenen Pass on the N3 westbound shut down lanes and left holiday travelers stuck for hours as recovery crews tried to clear the scene. The heavy vehicle went off the road before Key Ridge Truck Stop, and the backup stretched for kilometers with some drivers waiting over two hours to get moving again. This happened during peak festive-season traffic when families are trying to reach the coast or get home for Christmas, making an already packed highway even worse.
The crash adds to a rough stretch for the route connecting Johannesburg and Durban, with another truck accident at De Hoek Plaza days earlier causing similar chaos on the opposite side. Authorities keep warning about driver fatigue and speeding on...
South African prosecutors just froze over R12 million in stuff belonging to four alleged zama-zama kingpins after the Pretoria High Court signed off on the order. Chimene Mlambo got hit the hardest with 10 properties and 19 vehicles locked down, while Elias Christopher Ngobeni, Nason Ngobeni, and Alex Sithole also lost houses and cars tied to their supposed illegal gold-mining operation. The whole crew is already facing charges for running unlicensed digs in abandoned mine shafts and laundering the cash through real estate.
The Asset Forfeiture Unit teamed up with the Hawks to grab what they could right away, and they are still hunting for the rest of the assets scattered around. This comes after a brutal rescue mission saved 246...
After years of delays, South African serial killer Hlabirwa Rassie Nkuna will finally stand trial for murdering Hillary Gardee and Nonkululeko Nkosi back in 2022. The 36-year-old already got slapped with two life sentences for killing his girlfriend and her cop sister, and he's facing a dozen more charges when the court kicks off next spring in Mbombela. Gardee was a law student who got snatched from a shopping center and shot execution-style, while Nkosi was kidnapped, raped, and strangled before being dumped in a ditch.
The whole thing has been a mess with prosecutors building their case around phone records, DNA evidence, and a confession that Nkuna later tried to take back. Four other dudes originally got arrested but walked free...
Ekurhuleni dropped the hammer on HR chief Linda Gxasheka, putting her on immediate leave after some wild stuff came out at the Madlanga Commission hearings. Basically, she got accused of dragging her feet when it came to disciplining EMPD Deputy Chief Julius Mkhwanazi, even after an official report said he assaulted a female cop. Former employee relations guy Xolani Nciza testified that Gxasheka just sat on recommendations to suspend Mkhwanazi, and things got messy when the city manager apparently went off on him for trying to extend another suspension.
The city says this is just a precautionary thing while they investigate, not a conviction, and someone else will fill her spot temporarily. But people are seeing this as proof that the...
South African authorities dropped a massive road safety blitz to combat drunk driving and speeding while everyone hits the highways for holiday travel. Transport Minister Barbara Creecy launched the latest phase at Maubane toll plaza on the N1, and cops are setting up checkpoints everywhere to nail people breaking rules.
Last festive season killed over 1,500 people in crashes that could have been avoided if drivers were not being reckless idiots. Traffic officers are deploying breathalyzers and speed cameras across provinces like the Western Cape and Gauteng, trying to drop fatality numbers before things get worse.
The campaign wants motorists to check their vehicles before trips, take breaks every couple of hours, and stop mixing...
A South African court convicted a farm owner and seven others for beating two men to death back in 2020 after accusing them of cattle theft near Mkhondo. Werner Potgieter and his stepson, Cornelius Greyling, got nailed along with six workers for killing Sifiso Thwala and Musa Nene, who were just driving through to drop off groceries when security guards grabbed them. The victims got kicked in the head, whipped with sjamboks, and shocked with cattle prods until they died, while a third guy survived by playing dead.
The Mpumalanga High Court handed down guilty verdicts for murder and attempted murder after a trial that dragged on for years. Some of these same people were already out on bail for shooting two brothers at the same farm...
Leaders from the Afrikaner town of Orania flew to Washington and met with Trump-adjacent Republicans to pitch autonomy and ask for investment cash instead of refugee deals. Joost Strydom and his crew talked up their volkstaat dream while trying to score funding for housing and infrastructure since the settlement keeps growing by around 15 percent every year.
Trump has been beating the drum about white farmers getting attacked and losing land, which gave the Orania people validation as a distinct group separate from the rest of South Africa. The delegation made it clear they want help building up their community rather than bailing out as refugees, like some Americans keep suggesting.
Critics back home see the whole thing as divisive...
