In July 2026, Bokkieweek, an Afrikaner youth sports tournament, sparked national controversy after being labelled an apartheid-era event by media and politicians. Is this fair criticism, or does it reveal deeper tensions around minority cultural rights in democratic South Africa? This article examines the facts, the framing, and the difficult balance between transformation and cultural…
Between 1976 and 1981 the South African government created armies for the 4 homelands it had declared independent, paying for them through the South African Defence budget, training them at SADF bases and commanding them through seconded South African officers. When a coup toppled Bophuthatswana’s president in February 1988, the SADF crossed the border and…
Retired Hawks Colonel Kobus Roelofse has told the Madlanga Commission that IDAC head Andrea Johnson forwarded the contents of a 2018 assault docket to the suspect in that case, Major General Feroz Khan, before he had answered the charge. Roelofse said the way the material was moved, through a private email account with a request…
Portia Anyamba, a former Brigadier General in the South African Air Force and a naturalised American citizen, was sentenced on 17 June 2026 to 6 months in a United States federal prison for acting as an agent of South Africa and for lying on a security clearance application. The prosecutors who asked for that sentence…
Public Interest South Africa has lodged a criminal complaint with the Hawks against Acting National Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Puleng Dimpane, built on her own sworn testimony to Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee investigating allegations made by Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. The complaint centres on the Medicare24 contract, the same tender at the heart of the…
WhatsApp evidence at the Madlanga Commission links Major General Feroz Khan to an alleged plot to remove the Inspector General of Intelligence, routed through Carnilinx executive Mohamed Sayed to Julius Malema. The chats also show Khan handing over the name and home address of the complainant in a VBS case implicating Malema. In a sworn…
The Madlanga Commission has begun reading WhatsApp messages extracted from 2 iPhones seized at Major General Feroz Khan’s Houghton home, and they allegedly show the suspended Crime Intelligence officer coordinating police action with Carnilinx director Mohammed Sayed against the company’s competitors in the illegal tobacco trade. The same chats connect Khan to the late Wiandre…
 An 83-year-old Mpumalanga poultry farmer survived a barbed wire trap strung at neck height across his own farm road on 24 June 2026. Two of his cattle herders were arrested after one reportedly confessed, yet police released both men on a warning and charges have still not been formulated. TLU SA has said the incident…
It is exactly 1 year since Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s briefing set off 2 parallel investigations into the criminal justice system. Around 13 people have been arrested, the national police commissioner is suspended and criminally charged, and 2 interim reports sit unread on the President’s desk. A witness has been murdered, and another was shot…
On 2 July 2026, leaders from 6 Afrikaner organisations met US Ambassador Brent Bozell at the US Embassy in Pretoria, presenting formal proposals to resolve the Pretoria-Washington rift. The South African government has not commented on the meeting, despite receiving 5 formal US requests earlier this year that also remain unanswered. More than 7,000 South…
