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…
