The testimonies of KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi and national police boss Fannie Masemola suggest the rot is deep in the police service
		
	 
	
		
		A gripping South African political thriller expands on the theme of whistleblowers
		
	 
	
		
		The father of Mlungisi Ncalane told the Pietermaritzburg High Court how his son, accused three, had tried to paint a tree
		
	 
	
		
		Babita Deokaran, Thabiso Zulu, Francois van der Westhuizen and Pieter Snyders received international recognition at awards hosted by the Blueprint for Free Speech
		
	 
	
		
		People who don’t turn a blind eye are making an often deadly decision. Babita Deokaran is one
		
	 
	
		
		In this extract from journalist Mandy Wiener’s latest book she examines the death of ANC Youth League member Sindiso Magaqa in KwaZulu-Natal
		
	 
	
		
		Youth Day, June 16, reminds us of the role of youth in the struggle against oppression throughout the history of the ANC 
		
	 
	
		
		Embattled eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede’s supporters have revolted against the ANC’s decision to place her on enforced leave
		
	 
	
		
		Murder charges against Harry Gwala District mayor Mluleki Ndobe have been provisionally withdrawn, the Umzimkhulu Magistrates Court heard on Monday.
		
	 
	
		
		ANC leaders Sindiso Magaqa, Wandile Ngubeni and S’bu Maphumulo were assassinated
		
	 
	
		
		Mluleki Ndobe and three others appeared in court in connection with the murder of former ANCYL secretary general Sindiso Magaqa
		
	 
	
		
		It failed to recommend that people implicated in the KwaZulu-Natal killings face prosecution
		
	 
	
		
		The report’s long-awaited release comes at a time when police have made some breakthroughs in investigating the killings
		
	 
	
		
		The alleged scam was reported to the authority by KwaZulu-Natal’s Harry Gwala district municipality last year
		
	 
	
		
		The suspect is appearing in the Umzimkhulu magistrate’s court on charges of murder, conspiracy to commit murder and two counts of attempted murder
		
	 
	
		
		Two ANC regions had until August to elect new leadership but only Harry Gwala region did so,
amid threats of court action
		
	 
	
		
		The public protector has clashed with the police minister over providing witnesses with protection
		
	 
	
		
		Thabiso Zulu gave evidence at the Moerane commission of inquiry into the political killings in KwaZulu-Natal
		
	 
	
		
		Acting provincial police commissioner Major General Bheki Langa was on ‘official police business’
		
	 
	
		
		Lamola said it was worrying that this had to be done by a party outside of the ANC but celebrated the fact that it was finally happening
		
	 
	
		
		The EFF are taking credit for the resignation of the president and they are refusing to take part in the election of Ramaphosa as president
		
	 
	
		
		Tshibase, who was also a teacher, was shot dead on May 23 last year while at the gate of his family home in Umzimkhulu
		
	 
	
		
		There were rumours doing the rounds in Magaqa’s neighbourhood that he was poisoned while in hospital.
		
	 
	
		
		The ANC’s KwaZulu-Natal rebutts claims by the SACP and its own members that it had turned a blind eye to violence and corruption in the region
		
	 
	
		
		A look into the web of killings in KwaZulu-Natal reveals hitmen, security firms and political players
		
	 
	
		
		As a wall of steel secures ANC top brass, the probe into political killings hears explosive allegations
		
	 
	
		
		Thabiso Zulu, friend of murdered Umzimkhulu councillor Sindiso Magaqa, spent two days briefing the Moerane Commission about corruption in the region
		
	 
	
		
		Following several ANC KZN killings, police have not confirmed whether the death of Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s clerk was politically motivated.
		
	 
	
		
		Leaders were assassinated in a takeover plot, the SACP has told the KwaZulu-Natal inquiry
		
	 
	
		
		The outspoken MP jumped before she could be pushed out of a party that’s become ‘alien’ to her
		
	 
	
		
		Hawks spokesperson Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi said today that they are now searching for a second suspect.
		
	 
	
		
		Sihle Zikalala said Magaqa and his comrades had caused a ‘strategic shift’ in the ’very conservative’ ANC in 2012