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Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s son, was arrested for attempted murder on Thursday after a shooting at his Hyde Park residence

Man implicated by slain Witness D survives Boksburg shooting

Wiandre Pretorius was shot at 16 times and walked away unharmed by what police believe was a targeted hit after he was implicated at the Madlanga Commission

National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola. (SAPS/X)

Three suspects identified in killing of Madlanga commission’s Witness D

Police have detained one of the suspects, who is currently being questioned, national police commissioner Fannie Masemola told journalists

Like US President Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk saw migrants as intruders who must be removed, and the homeless as lazy people. Photo: Schneyder Mendoza/AFP

The fault lines of Charlie Kirk’s socio-political and theological nationalism

The American right-wing Christian nationalist, media personality and ally of Donald Trump’s MAGA movement was shot dead on 10 September

US involvement in the Middle East and Israel’s attacks on Iran and its retaliation make the US military base in Qatar a target

Qatar must rethink the US’s Al Udeid Military Air Base

US involvement in the Middle East and Israel’s attacks on Iran and its retaliation make the US military base in Qatar a target

Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel’s offensive in Iran breaches the Geneva Conventions

The airstrikes are about more than Iran’s nuclear capacity; they are aimed at the network of supporters of Palestinians’ right to exist

Human rights lawyer Griffiths Mxenge was assassinated on the night of 19 November 1981.

Remembering human rights lawyer Griffiths Mxenge, assassinated 43 years ago

He was killed for fighting for freedom, justice and equality. What would he think of South Africa today?

According to the police, Naude was ambushed by two gunmen. Photo: X

Law group slams attempt on the life of Sars advocate Coreth Naude

Naude, who was investigating a case involving R37 million in unpaid taxes by a prominent businesswoman, survived a shooting in Umhlanga on Thursday

South Africa’s Jewish and Muslim communities have condemned the killing of Halima Hoosen-Preston and the knife assault on her family at their home in Durban, in what appears to be an Islamophobic attack.
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Surge in political assassinations sparks concern ahead of South Africa’s May elections

A total of 131 assassinations in 2023 were related to organised crime, the minibus taxi industry, political assassinations and personal killings

The political strategy of the socialist shack dwellers’ movement is grounded in two decades of activism against oppression and for land  (Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Abahlali baseMjondolo’s elections choice comes from no choice

The political strategy of the socialist shack dwellers’ movement is grounded in two decades of activism against oppression and for land

The late uMngeni municipality Chief Whip, Nhlalayenza Ndlovu, who died on 5 December 2023.

Assassinated uMngeni DA councillor knew he was in danger

The municipality has offered a R100 000 reward for information that leads to the conviction of councillor Nhlalayenza Ndlovu’s killers

The Last Afternoon In The Garden |  This is a four-part podcast series produced and presented by Paul McNally for Develop Audio.

The Last Afternoon in the Garden | Episode 4 – What about a conviction?

In this fourth episode of The Last Afternoon in the Garden we go back to the communal garden one last time to reflect on everything that has happened. We seek out experts to try…

The Last Afternoon In The Garden |  This is a four-part podcast series produced and presented by Paul McNally for Develop Audio.

The Last Afternoon in the Garden | Episode 3 – It’s a Dirty War

In this third episode of The Last Afternoon in the Garden we are struck by incredible tragedy, but everyone involved pulls together, gets sensible and builds a strategy so they…

The Last Afternoon In The Garden |  This is a four-part podcast series produced and presented by Paul McNally for Develop Audio.

The Last Afternoon in the Garden | Episode 2 – Gathering the testimonies

In this second episode of The Last Afternoon in the Garden we get deeper into the work of Mbale Kubheka, the determined attorney who is working to get a conviction for the…

The Last Afternoon In The Garden |  This is a four-part podcast series produced and presented by Paul McNally for Develop Audio.

The Last Afternoon in the Garden | Episode 1 – Fighting for water

My investigation started as looking into an assassination, but became about land ownership in South Africa. I became increasingly aware of what it takes to achieve even small…

The Last Afternoon In The Garden |  This is a four-part podcast series produced and presented by Paul McNally for Develop Audio.

The Last Afternoon in the Garden | Introduction

Ayanda Ngila was assassinated in the Ekhenana communal garden in Durban, South Africa, on the 8th of March, 2022. Ayanda was 30 years old and shot in broad daylight in the middle…

Healing: Chris Hani’s daughter Lindiwe Hani at the wreath-laying ceremony on 10 April 2018 in Boksburg. This year she delivered the Hugh Lewin Memorial lecture at St John’s College, 30 years after her father was assassinated. Photo: Frennie Shivambu/Gallo Images

Lindiwe Hani: ‘Realising dreams is a gift to my father’

Chris Hani’s daughter Lindiwe Hani has learnt to not be buried by his assassination 30 years ago but to draw strength from the way he lived his life

The ANC needs to be more than restored, it needs to be rebuilt and repurposed.

Will Mangaung mark the birth, decay and death of the ANC?

The party needs to be more than restored, it needs to be rebuilt and repurposed, with the the party’s youth prepared for a transformative role in society based on good ethics

Convicted individuals are delivered to the Court of Appeal by wardens from the Rwanda Correctionnal Services (RCS) in Rwandan capital, Kigali on April 4, 2022. (Photo by Simon WOHLFAHRT / AFP)

Rwanda fed false intelligence to US and Interpol as it pursued political dissidents abroad

A classified FBI report confirms that US law enforcement has long known of Rwandan intelligence operations against civilians on its soil

Shinzo Abe © GettyImages

Former Japan PM Abe shot, feared dead

The attack comes despite the country’s famously low levels of violent crime and tough gun laws

Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo. (Gulshan Khan/AFP)

Zondo deplores ‘attempted killing’ of state capture witness who implicated Molefe

The deputy chief justice says an attack on one witness may deter many others from giving evidence