South Africa is spending less than half of what the ANC’s own National Development Plan says the country needs on building factories, plants and machinery, and manufacturing was the only sector in the economy to go backwards in the first 3 months of 2026. At the same time, a government investigation has found that the…
Day 158 of the Madlanga Commission heard 2 witnesses on the killing of Bevan Loftus and 4 other men by police in a Durban flat on 1 April 2023. The first was his father, a former policeman who says his son was murdered in cold blood. The second was a retired SAPS captain and firearms…
An IPID investigator told the Madlanga Commission on 12 August 2026 that a Durban police task team commander received cash payments totalling R2 712 612 in the 16 months after Bevan Loftus and 4 other men were shot dead by his team. Loftus’s father had gone to the High Court to try to stop the…
The United States is weighing a $1 million grant to research crime against Afrikaners, first reported by Newsday and traced back to a wider ProPublica investigation. The money is tied to Lex Libertas, founded by former AfriForum Deputy CEO Ernst Roets, and sits alongside a separate US decision to end PEPFAR funding to South Africa….
State Advocate Drushantha Ramsamy returned to the Madlanga Commission on 11 August 2026 with new documents on the Mokwele and Medicare24 matters. Commissioner Sesi Baloyi stated on the record that Andrea Johnson lied to Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee on Police about when a key referral was received. Ramsamy also testified about an undisclosed affidavit, a…
Naledi Pandor, Chair of the Nelson Mandela Foundation and Chancellor of Nelson Mandela University, has described the construction of a privately funded Afrikaans medium university as a danger South Africa should not ignore. The institution she is describing, Akademia, takes no government funding or subsidies. Her remarks came on the African Renaissance podcast with Mbuyiseni…
National Coloured Congress leader and MP Fadiel Adams was scheduled to take the witness stand at the Madlanga Commission on the morning of 11 August 2026. Commission spokesperson Jeremy Michaels said the sworn affidavit and its annexures only reached the commission after 9pm the previous evening. Adams was first served with a Rule 3 notice…
Eleven people were shot dead in 3 separate shootings in Langa, Khayelitsha and Gugulethu on the night of 8 August 2026 and the early hours of 9 August. Provincial Serious Violent Crimes detectives have taken over all 3 investigations and no arrests have been made. Police have appealed to the public for information, but there…
Two Anti-Gang Unit officers and two women were shot dead in an ambush in Reiger Park on the evening of 7 August 2026. Almost every report carried the ambush and buried a single paragraph explaining that 11 days earlier, the same unit arrested a suspect in the same township who walked free because his case…
Mbuyiseli Madlanga has spent months chairing a commission that has taken apart the testimony of some of the most senior officials in the country’s criminal justice system. By 6 August 2026 it had sat for 153 days. That record makes him one of the few public figures whose approach to power South Africans have actually…
