Investigative journalist @News24. Motorcycle racing fanatic. Email me - [email protected] or visit https://xitter.cf/t.co/TMo7pwuAUn
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Garden Route readers, save the dates.
@CowansView joins @PieterDuToit and @wicks_jeff for @News24 Road to the Ballot, unpacking the investigations behind Mafia Land, The Dark Prince and The Shadow State.
Hear their insights into corruption, organised crime, political intrigue and the issues shaping South Africa today – including how national events intersect with our local realities on the Garden Route.
📍 Knysna, 29 Oct at 18:00
📍 Plett, 30 Oct at 08:30
Free tickets – registration essential: bit.ly/4hpwkZK
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News24's Azarrah Karrim and Sikonathi Mantshantsha explain why the multimillion rand NHI marketing contract really is ‘ridiculous’ | REPORTING NOTES youtu.be/9cNXaZWIRjw?si=ZU6-… via @YouTube
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The Press Ombud has dismissed a complaint against News24 concerning our reporting on AfriForum's finances. The finding is available at this link.
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Inside Joburg Water’s R36m sewage crisis: Broken plant, dirty river and opaque transactions news24.com/investigations/in… via @news24
City Power pastor’s sprawling empire: How contractor and cleric built R31m property portfolio news24.com/investigations/ci… via @news24
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Inside AfriForum’s money machine: How lobby group splurges on salaries, marketing
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After witnessing the testimony by Andrea Johnson and the facts are clear, I agree with this view. The case against Khumalo and Mokwele et al cannot be sustained. We need IDAC, and we need actions to maintain its credibility.
Pieter du Toit | Andrea Johnson’s position is now untenable, and she must go
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ActionSA and the EFF have both lodged complaints with the Information Regulator to block amaBhungane’s access to their financial statements. This is after the Independent Electoral Commission agreed to share the financials of ALL South Africa’s political parties represented in parliament. What are they trying to hide?
Read about it here:
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It is naive to think the vultures will not use this opportunity to reach their own ends.
IDAC is an organisation, it can remain, just the current office bearers are not doing it any justice. Change the leadership and it could be doing the work of #Madlanga
Mokwele will fight IDAC Crime Intelligence charges in court – if Mothibi doesn’t drop them by @karynmaughan
news24.com/southafrica/crime… via @news24
Phala Phala: ‘What about the people?’ asks court by @gerbjan news24.com/politics/phala-ph… via @news24
Ramaphosa Phala Phala interdict application: Accountability v ‘humiliation’? news24.com/politics/ramaphos… via @news24
And thus you prove my point. The affidavit in question was written by Matshela Koko, not my wife.
You know. The Eskom guy I wrote about dozens of times in connection with State Capture allegations?
I suspect you could benefit from more thinking and less speaking.
"Once again you have put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual, come to the wrong conclusion" is a nice quote I once read that feels appropriate here.
Spoon feeding? There is no spoon feeding at the Madlanga Commission.
The spoons are at news24, or Andrea24. What’s this? (See pics) is that not an attempt at brainwashing the public?
No cutlery at Madlanga although they are eating. They are cooking.
There is a retired and excellent constitutional court justice with two other brilliant legal practitioners throughly probing witnesses and evidence. Fact based, gossip allergic commission.
There is a chief evidence leader Adv Chaskalson and his team who are exposing the innards of the violent and greedy big five cartel.
All Adv Andrea Johnson had to do was go and explain her side of the story, give a logical legal basis for her actions and provide proof of her allegations.
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Western Cape High Court Judge Andre le Grange when advocate Dali Mpofu starts his arguments: "Just remember the old saying: brevity is the hallmark of a good lawyer."
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During the Second World War, Berliners were faced with impossible choices. A recent book traces the legacies of their decisions, and illuminates their complex everyday existence. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
Welcome to. We hide nothing.
Mkhwanazi doesn't scare me.
I've said it before and will say it again, SAPS (and law enforcement) must be broken down and rebuilt.
SA deserves better.
The commission will get there eventually. My problem is how people take snippets of information and build entire narratives from that, outside the commission, when they don't know what is around the next corner.
Yeah a whole lot happened between the referral and the arrests. But don't let the facts get in the way of a good tweet, I guess.
It appears IDAC is a law unto itself. There needs to be oversight. Last week, a retired judge was appointed to keep oversight.
Based on an affidavit from MP Fadiel Adams, a section 27 referral was made…and it lacks evidence and substance. And arrests were made!
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