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The untold stories

Despite the publicity generated by Netcare’s complicity in the cash-for-kidneys scheme, the issue of the welfare of those who took part is ignored.

Netcare coughs up

Healthcare group cuts a deal with court over illegal organ harvesting — and medical personnel seem set to follow.

Court ends phoney chief’s land grab

A land grab near Vryheid in northern KwaZulu-Natal went horribly wrong last week when the Pietermaritzburg High Court restrained Jabulani Mdlalose, a pretender to the chieftancy…

Vigilante link to KZN attacks

A mysterious group of vigilantes called the Black Scorpions has arisen in the Upper Tugela area of KwaZulu-Natal to combat the rampant stock theft in the area that residents say…

Ex Scorpion might conduct own trial

Pietermaritzburg magistrate and former Scorpions investigator Ashwin Singh – who is due to go on trial for defeating the ends of justice – is considering conducting his own…

Murder trial exposes prison ‘mafia’

A series of ”prison mafia trials” are likely to arise from the murder trial of Pietermaritzburg’s self-styled prison boss, Russel Ngubo, and associated investigations of the Jali…

The jailhouse rot

Evidence before the Jali commission has highlighted the gross dereliction of leadership in prisons. ‘It’s like a plot in a movie script,” said East Coast Radio presenter Anisa…

‘Prisoners used as hired guns’

INVESTIGATORS of the Jali commission have begun probing information that warders at Pietermaritzburg New Prison have made extensive use of prisoners as hired guns