A contractor with no bakery collected R1 million a month from the state on a prison bread tender. Groenewald stopped it and replaced the contract with department-run bakeries producing bread at R8.00 a loaf, saving R77 million in a single financial year. Self-sufficiency across bakeries and farming saved South African taxpayers just over R202 million,…
A parliamentary reply signed by Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia shows that over 4 financial years, 166 South Africans were murdered with firearms that had previously belonged to the state. Of those, 142 were killed with former SAPS weapons, a figure that has not improved since 2022. Meanwhile, SAPS refuses to tell Parliament which of its own stations are losing the most guns.
Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala’s attempted murder trial opened at the Johannesburg High Court on 20 July 2026, but not before a scheduling dispute delayed the reading of charges. Advocate Annelene van den Heever, representing Matlala and his wife Tsakani, argued a co-accused’s postponement application would breach a binding court order, citing a Constitutional Court judgment from…
Former crime intelligence analyst Pilasande Dotyeni has submitted a sworn protected disclosure to parliament alleging that Lt-Gen Sindile Mfazi was assassinated because of his investigations into the Phala Phala burglary and related state corruption.The disclosure, signed on 20 March 2026, alleges that a Chief of Staff in the Presidency directed the seizure of Mfazi’s investigative…
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…
Magistrate Ignatius du Preez has rejected a plea and sentence deal between the National Prosecuting Authority and Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala, raising his proposed sentence from an effective 8 years to 12 years. Matlala fired his advocate hours before judgment, and Brigadier Rachel Matjeng, the officer at the centre of the corruption charges against him, was…
