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The Mogotsi-Maumela connection: Another R1bn health tender reveals bedfellows with benefits | News24

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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 1d

🔒The Mogotsi-Maumela connection: Another R1bn health tender reveals bedfellows with benefits www.news24.com/investigatio...

Political influence peddler Brown Mogotsi launched court action to overturn a R1-billion North West health department catering tender award, claiming to act in the public interest and on behalf of los...

Homes of Hangwani Maumela and Shadrack SibIya are raided

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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 1d

Good thing for Maumela that lack of taste is not a crime... Law enforcement raids homes of tender tycoon Hangwani Maumela and suspended police officer Shadrack Sibiya. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Social Development’s R3m NYC trip was ‘actually modest’, Parliament hears

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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 1d

Tolashe’s explanation on the appointment of 22-year-old Lesedi Mabiletja as her chief of staff shattered credulity, claiming her former chief of staff, Zanele Simmons, had betrayed her trust by falsifying Mabiletja’s CV to smuggle her into the department. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Appearing before Parliament to answer multiple allegations of wrongdoing, Department of Social Development officials failed to reassure opposition MPs — and repeatedly fudged the facts.

SA’s policing scandal – ‘Under siege’ Sibiya and Mchunu’s chief staffer raided

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 1d

SA’s policing scandal explodes – ‘Under siege’ Sibiya and Mchunu’s chief staffer raided www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

The gloves have come off in South Africa’s policing scandal. Suspended top cop Shadrack Sibiya’s home was raided, while sidelined Police Minister Senzo Mchunu’s chief of staff told journalists that po...

ANTHONY BUTLER: Ashor Sarupen a likely, and good, successor to Zille in DA council

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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 1d

🔒ANTHONY BUTLER: Ashor Sarupen a likely, and good, successor to Zille in DA council www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/c...

Although strongly associated with Helen Zille, Sarupen cannot easily be painted as her puppet or proxy

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 2d

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025. The Hungarian novelist whose books ‘reaffirm the power of art’ was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

The Hungarian novelist whose books ‘reaffirm the power of art’ was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm

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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 2d

🔒Indecisive JSC doesn’t fill SCA vacancy – as two strong female candidates split votes www.news24.com/southafrica/...

Indecisive JSC doesn’t fill SCA vacancy – as two strong female candidates split votes | News24

The Judicial Service Commission was split over whho of six judicial nominees should be appointed to the Supreme Court of Appeal, so neither Judge Leonie Windell nor Judge Thandi Norman was recommended...

EDITORIAL | Mkhwanazi’s threat against journalists is a threat against democracy | News24

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 2d

🔒EDITORIAL | Mkhwanazi’s threat against journalists is a threat against democracy. KwaZulu-Natal police boss Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi must decide if he wants to be a corruption buster or a tin-pot dictator in police uniform. www.news24.com/opinions/edi...

The KwaZulu-Natal police boss must be rebuked for threatening media freedom and undermining democracy, write News24’s editors.

‘Scrape until we find gold’: Mkhwanazi probes Mchunu trust, reveals Matlala-Cele money ties | News24

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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 2d

🔒"Cele sends Vusi Matlala account details. Matlala deposits money into a private account, and not Cele's account, someone else's account. He puts money into that account and sends proof to Cele. Cele acknowledged, and there is no further communication." www.news24.com/politics/scr...

Investigators are deep diving into a trust fund in the name of suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu in a bid to track down dubious payments.

Cato Manor Unit prosecutions — the high cost of malicious lawfare

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 2d

Former 'Cato Manor Unit' officers challenge years of unjust prosecutions in court www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Almost 17 years after being falsely accused of operating a ‘hit squad’ which ‘unlawfully’ murdered 28 people, former members of the Durban Organised Crime Unit are finally claiming damages from the St...

NMB deputy mayor comes out swinging after court appearance

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 2d

NMB deputy mayor Gary van Niekerk comes out swinging after court appearance www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Once again painting himself as a martyr, Gary van Niekerk claimed to be the tip of the spear against corruption in Nelson Mandela Bay while suggesting that other politicians, including former mayor Re...

A Swift retort and stolen church money — JSC grills ConCourt candidates

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 2d

Taylor Swift and stolen church money emerge as JSC grills ConCourt candidates www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Vital interviews to fill two vacancies at the Constitutional Court have resulted in the shortlisting of five candidates.

The long and lonely road that awaits the new bosses at NPA and SARS

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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 2d

A long and lonely road awaits new bosses at NPA and SARS www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

As our politics becomes more fractured, two key institutions, the NPA and SARS, are likely to come under a lot more pressure. Procedures have begun to appoint successors to the people currently runnin...

KZN police chief slams MP and media for exposing covert operation

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 2d

🔒KZN police chief slams MP and media for exposing covert operation www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/...

Mkhwanazi accuses Kohler Barnard of endangering officers’ lives after photos of safe house made public

MPs told of ‘impunity culture’ at the department of labour

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 2d

🔒MPs told of ‘impunity culture’ at the department of labour. Auditor-general flags years of poor oversight and fraud risks as Compensation Fund gets disclaimer. www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/...

Auditor-general flags years of poor oversight and fraud risks as Compensation Fund gets disclaimer

Health workers applaud medical association’s decision to cut ties with Israel

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 3d

South African Medical Association (SAMA) "immediately suspend all professional and bilateral relations with the Israeli Medical Association (IMA)" and call for the suspension of the IMA from the World Medical Association.
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SAMA calls for the Israeli Medical Association to condemn the blockade of essential medical supplies, among other demands

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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 3d

KILLED BY THE IDF: Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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OPINION | Through Zionism, progressive and egalitarian Jewish values have been corrupted | News24

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 3d

After deliberations, the JSC has forwarded this list of 5 candidates for appointment to the Constitutional Court, out of which President Ramaphosa must choose 2 to appoint:

Judge Nambitha Dambuza
Adv Alan Dodson SC
Judge Glenn Goosen
Judge Kate Savage
Judge Ashton Schippers

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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 3d

🔒OPINION | Through Zionism, progressive and egalitarian Jewish values have been corrupted www.news24.com/opinions/col...

If Judaism is going to be part of the anti-fascist struggle for a better world, we will need to reclaim progressive traditions that have guided us for thousands of years, while also integrating them i...

New Cape Town transgender health service addresses Pepfar funding gap

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 3d

New Cape Town transgender health service addresses funding gap after Pepfar cuts www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Run by the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation, the service at Groote Schuur Hospital seeks to help transgender and gender-diverse people who previously relied on specialised clinics that closed due to Pep...

ANC’s R1bn in public funds at risk as insolvency looms for party

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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 3d

With at least three bank accounts attached and payments stopped to settle an R85-million debt, the ANC also faces an insolvency application that could jeopardise more than R1-billion in public funds it receives as a represented party.
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The ANC faces an insolvency application that would be parlous for the party ahead of next year’s make-or-break local government elections.

Delayed judgments inevitable due to lack of staff, Dambuza-Mayosi tells JSC

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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 3d

🔒Delayed judgments inevitable due to lack of staff, Dambuza-Mayosi tells JSC www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/...

Constitutional Court hopeful pins blame for delays in delivering rulings at SCA on big shortage of researchers as candidates interviewed

Church fund scandal claim shadows candidate for Constitutional Court

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 3d

🔒 Church fund scandal claim shadows candidate for Constitutional Court. Madumetja Kate Malepe under scrutiny over alleged misappropriation, for which she says she's been cleared, and debt woes. www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/...

Madumetja Kate Malepe under scrutiny over alleged misappropriation, for which she says she's been cleared, and debt woes

Burning down the house: Milei plays rock star as Argentina economy crashes

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 4d

Burning down the house: Milei plays rock star as Argentina economy crashes. Facing protests and scandal, Argentina’s ‘rock star president’ performs in Buenos Aires, saying: ‘I’m human’. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Facing protests and scandal, Argentina’s ‘rock star president’ performs in Buenos Aires, saying: ‘I’m human’

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