“A Bottomless Pit”: Durban’s Repatriation Crisis Is Spiralling Out of Control Thousands of undocumented Malawian nationals are stranded at Durban’s Old Drive-In site, sleeping on pavements, turned away at gates, and caught in a bureaucratic nightmare that nobody planned for.…
A Senior Cop Just Admitted He Thinks the R200 Million Cocaine Theft Was an Inside Job A suspended Hawks commander has told a formal commission of inquiry that the scene of one of South Africa’s biggest drug heists was almost…
Three Young Lives Lost in Crocodile River: Nine Days of Searching, a Lifetime of Questions On the morning of 7 June 2026, three young people — aged 20 and 21 — drove away from a restaurant near Mbombela and never…
A Tuesday Night Massacre Nobody Saw Coming — But Everyone Knew Was Possible At 11:10pm on Tuesday, gunmen stormed the Jumper informal settlement in Cleveland, Johannesburg, and executed 12 people. Fifteen others are fighting for their lives. The killers arrived…
The State Released Dangerous Offenders. Now It Can’t Find Them. South Africa’s Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has admitted to Parliament that 29,320 parolees and probationers have absconded — and remain untraced. Among them: convicted murderers, rapists, and armed robbers.…
Hormuz Is Closed — And Kenyans Will Pay the Price Since March 4, 2026, Iran has shut down the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow waterway through which a quarter of the world’s oil and a fifth of its liquefied…
South Africa’s Parliament Has Drawn a Clear Line — No President Is Untouchable South Africa’s sub-committee on the Review of Assembly Rules has adopted new presidential impeachment procedures, creating a structured, legally grounded path to remove a sitting president from…
The Government Finally Admits Mass Culling Wasn’t Working South Africa’s Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen has announced a landmark policy shift that will allow poultry farmers to vaccinate their birds against highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) — ending a brutal, costly…
The Left Is Regrouping — And It Has Names to Name Boksburg, Ekurhuleni — MK Party second deputy president Tony Yengeni stood before leftist delegates on Friday and said what many in South Africa’s political left have long believed: the…
Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Crisis Is a Warning for the Whole Continent In February 2026, Zimbabwe’s ruling party ZANU-PF did something that should alarm every young African who believes their vote matters: it gazetted Constitution Amendment Bill No. 3 (CAB3) — a…
