Preggy Padayachee, who spoke for Feroz Khan’s family on the night Khan was shot in June, has been named as the man shot dead on the R21 in Ekurhuleni on the evening of Monday 5 October 2026. Khan was due to give evidence to the Madlanga Commission behind closed doors the next day. The commission has since postponed that evidence to a date still to be set. The police say the motive is unknown and nobody has been arrested.
International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola told US Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell to “get out of the kitchen” in a Sunday Times interview published on 4 October 2026, days after DIRCO called the ambassador in for what a DIRCO official counted as the third time in 9 months. Bozell called it a personal insult and said…
News24 published a fact-check of the Lex Libertas film Crossed Out on 1 October 2026 and found familiar claims with little new evidence. I compared the article with the film and found 1 speaker who was out of date on a trade ranking, while several of News24’s own sources are old, disputed or incomplete. News24…
At the post-Cabinet briefing on 29 September 2026, Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni told South Africans who are unhappy with the country to leave in peace, and warned them not to destabilise it. A day earlier, President Ramaphosa’s newsletter had called people who travel abroad to raise concerns unpatriotic. Neither of them named a…
Taxi boss Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni told the Madlanga Commission on 29 September 2026 that he helped with the legal fees of a man serving life for murdering a taxi marshal, because the man’s mother asked him to. He also said a second convicted taxi killer, whose defence was discussed in the same arrangement, “used to…
In his weekly newsletter of 28 September 2026, President Cyril Ramaphosa warned against people who travel to foreign capitals to spread falsehoods and scare off investors, but he named no one. The groups the government has been blaming, AfriForum, Solidarity and Lex Libertas, do not use the word he put on them. A day later,…
On 28 September 2026, the Madlanga Commission read the WhatsApp messages on Pretoria taxi boss Bafana “King of the Sky” Sindane’s phone into the record, after his last-minute court bid to stop it failed. The messages link Sindane and Mpumalanga taxi boss Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni to the unpaid lawyer of 2 men serving life for…
On 26 September 2026, Lex Libertas planted about 3,000 white crosses on the National Mall in Washington, nearly every one carrying the name of a person murdered in a farm attack in South Africa. Within a day, the media had described the campaign with a word its organisers never used, and the ANC-led government again…
The ANC has asked Parliament’s ad hoc committee to find that suspended National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola failed in his duty by not resisting Police Minister Senzo Mchunu’s freeze on Crime Intelligence appointments. The Activists and Citizens Forum accuses ANC MP Khusela Diko of protecting Mchunu at Masemola’s expense, and Diko says the forum could…
Solidarity’s Jaco Kleynhans told News24 he expects the US to announce whether South Africa stays in AGOA by the first week of November, and that more steps could follow within weeks. He denied that Solidarity lobbied for punishment, said Minister Ronald Lamola has never met the organisation, and said President Cyril Ramaphosa never gave his…
