News24 reported that Solidarity and AfriForum spent R108 million to take over Orania, quoting an anonymous senior Solidarity source who described a coup and compared the town to North Korea. The financial documents in the article show money moving into Orania, openly and with the mandate of the people who paid it, and no crime…
Amazon runs a business development programme in South Africa that only admits companies which are 100% black-owned, and it has told Solidarity that South African law required this of it. I read the law Amazon named, all 89 pages of it, and the requirement is not there. The only black-ownership figure that rule book puts…
AT A GLANCE: Former Hawks head Godfrey Lebeya concluded his evidence at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry on 2 September 2026, his last day in the witness chair. Under questioning from evidence leader Advocate Lee Segeels-Ncube and later from chairperson Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, Lebeya conceded that a WhatsApp message thanking him for his “efforts” on…
Godfrey Lebeya was cross-examined at the Madlanga Commission on 1 September 2026 about the 541kg of cocaine stolen from the Hawks office in Port Shepstone in November 2021. The afternoon turned on a single document, a request from the KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head to put 42 people on a polygraph, which Lebeya approved and which does…
Lieutenant Colonel Deena Govender spent Monday 31 August 2026 at the Madlanga Commission trying to account for just over R3 million in cash that went into accounts held by him and his wife, an amount chief evidence leader Advocate Matthew Chaskalson SC put to him is more than 100 times what he takes home in…
Stefan Joel Govindraju, accused of running a network of shell companies that took R600 million out of Tembisa Hospital, was arrested by Hawks detectives at OR Tambo International Airport on 28 August 2026 as he returned from the Seychelles. His attorney says the surrender had been negotiated with prosecutors over more than 2 years and…
Taxi boss Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni spent Friday reading his own affidavit into the Madlanga Commission record. Each time he was asked what its central claims rested on, the answer was hearsay, a dead source, or nothing at all. He returns on 21 September to face the questioning that has not yet happened. Madoda Johannes Sibanyoni,…
Retired Lieutenant General Godfrey Lebeya spent 27 August 2026 in front of the Madlanga Commission giving his version of why Hawks members arrived at the Sandhurst home of murder accused Katiso Molefe on 6 December 2024. His answer is that a man phoned to say people at the address were impersonating Hawks officers, and that…
Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala appeared before the Madlanga Commission on 24, 25 and 26 August 2026, and spent most of those 3 days refusing to answer questions. Over the course of the week the commission tested every reason he gave for that silence, and each one fell away. On the third day Commissioner Baloyi asked him…
Customs officials and police took 334kg of cocaine off a single flight from São Paulo at OR Tambo International Airport on 25 August 2026, and no arrests have been made. On the same night, a 37-year-old man was arrested on the N2 at Riviersonderend with R11 million worth of drugs in the boot of a…
