In 1950 the apartheid government appointed its own commission to determine whether the homelands policy could actually work. The Tomlinson Commission answered after 5 years and 17 volumes: yes, but only at a price of £104 million in the first decade and with white capital operating inside the reserves. Hendrik Verwoerd accepted the diagnosis and…
Feroz Khan has never publicly answered a question about the allegations against him, and every institution built to ask has now failed. Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee never called him. His court challenges delayed the Madlanga Commission for weeks. The shooting stopped his testimony 48 hours before it was due. On Friday the commission will lead…
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…
AfriForum’s Klerksdorp branch has formally challenged the City of Matlosana’s 2026/27 budget, arguing that a projected surplus of R3.95 million is built on revenue assumptions the municipality has no realistic prospect of achieving. In a formal submission dated 13 May 2026, AfriForum’s Klerksdorp branch delivered a 28-page technical analysis to the City of Matlosana, identifying…
Crime scene details that emerged on Monday contradict the initial account of the shooting. The laptop was not stolen. No bullet holes were found on the vehicle. And a handwritten note names 2 serving police officers already under investigation.
Feroz Khan, the suspended Deputy Head of Crime Intelligence, was shot in Houghton on Sunday night, 48 hours before he was due to testify at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry. His laptop and phone were taken at the scene, and his lawyers had been finalising his affidavit just hours before the attack. This video goes…
Two and a half thousand years ago, Plato watched the world’s first democracy destroy itself from within. He documented exactly how it happened. South Africa is following the same script. Here is a pattern you’ve watched play out your entire life, and nobody has ever given you the honest explanation for why it keeps happening….
The City of Matlosana council voted to approve its 2026/27 budget despite the municipality’s own Mayoral Committee acknowledging it has an unfunded budget position — the 3rd year in a row the municipality has done so. Residents in the North West municipality pay property rates nearly 6 times higher than Cape Town homeowners for a…
In June 2026, US Ambassador Brent Bozell publicly called out South Africa’s foreign policy after Deputy President Mashatile travelled to Beijing while Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister visited Pretoria in the same week. The ANC’s response — that non-alignment does not mean neutrality — inadvertently confirmed Bozell’s point. This analysis examines why the ANC’s non-alignment label…
The Boer people are not simply another name for Afrikaners. They are a distinct people who built internationally recognised sovereign republics, lost them to British force in 1902, were absorbed into a broader political identity they did not fully choose, and were then excluded from the only formal promise of self-determination that post-apartheid South Africa…
