The T in BTL

People showed me colors I ain’t never seen in a crayon box.

[Sihle Mavuso @ZANewsFlash]

NEWS: The Minister of Home Affairs, Dr Leon Schreiber, says following the SIU investigation into corruption into the Department, they will soon be cancelling all visas that were issued fraudulently.
He said they will start by cancelling 2000 fraudulent study visas that were issued by corrupt officials to foreign nationals - KZN Tonight Podcast

[Nompumelelo Marawule @NMarawule]

Dear @JacintaNgobese do not give up, true South Africans are behind you🤞🏽❤️

[iTOUCHCANDI @iTouchCandi]

Yesterday we witnessed one of the most embarrassing moments in South African football history. What happened was not just shocking, it was a disgrace to the integrity of the game and an insult to every supporter who believes in fair competition.

This will go down as one of the darkest and most humiliating moments South African football has ever produced. The entire world watched players doing match fixing live. A goalkeeper abandoning his own defence to punch the ball into his own net? A defender deliberately putting the ball past his own goalkeeper?

[Mzilikazi wa Afrika @IamMzilikazi]

I hereby stand by my X post that the complainant, Dr. Tengani Ntuli, in the extortion case against taxi boss, Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni and three others told the police that a well known Member of Parliament phoned him on Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 18:25 as NPA is planning to reinstate it and asked him to withdraw the case so they can “resolve the matter outside the court” because one of the accused is “old and is on the risk to lose everything.”
I can categorically state that Ntuli also informed police that the MP told him that one of the accused indicated to him that he is aware that Ntuli’s house in Middleburg “is currently without curtains and people have told him that I have run away.”
“The question is, who was at our house, who saw that there is no more curtains at our house?” Ntuli posed the question in his message to the police.
Ntuli also told the police that he informed the MP that he will never change his mind or statement about the case.
This matter, Ntuli and MP’s phone call was also discussed during a close session meeting between officials from NPA and police on Thursday in Mpumalanga.
If I am lying about the matter, I am asking Dr. Ntuli to go to the nearest police station and open a case against me.

[John Baloyi @Dijosti]

Cyril Ramaphosa once said that the ANC is accused number one in State capture cases. His predecessor wrote him a letter and castigated him. It has since emerged that former National Assembly Speaker is in the dock, former MP Vincent Smith is in prison, Zizi Kodwa's corruption case is being re-enrolled. Coincidence? Maybe. The president's predecessor went on to form his own party and recruited every shady character that money could buy.

Phala Phala farm robbery was apparently disclosed by a former Top spy, Arthur Fraser. Lately he is mentioning that Dollars stolen from Phala Phala farm were actually more than what was previously reported, how does he know that? Makes you think doesn't it?

General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi said that there are some politicians and Judges who are on the payroll of the criminal underworld and many questioned Mkhwanazi's bona fide. So far it has emerged that 2 prominent politicians are friends with taxi bosses and a third Politician has just been granted bail from Pinetown Magistrate court.

A Magistrate struck from the court roll a very prominent case which left the NPA with eggs on their face and are now appealing that Magistrate's ruling which ruled a Prosecutor in contempt of court and ordered the Prosecutor's arrest.

Coincidentally a former NPA Head was hired as a Top lawyer for the very prominent case that was struck off the court roll this week. An opposition party MP is allegedly being named as being involved in wanting this prominent case dropped.

A top Special Task Force member is in the dock for being an alleged top hitman presumably for a case of illegal mining in the East Rand.

A week ago two top SAPS Generals were arrested after being found with precious metals probably from Zama Zamas illegal mining.
Every crooked Politician wants the current State President removed in the guise that they want a cleaner South Africa, when did criminals care about a cleaner country?
These crooked politicians who are pressing for endless motions of no confidence against the president have apparently been infiltrated by organised Criminals. Make of this what you will, it's not fiction.

You would think this comes from a James Hadley Chase fictional novel but it comes from this beautiful country called South Africa.

[Kwena Molekwa @Miz_Ruraltarain]

The numbers are officially not numbering! 🧐💸

The story started with a Sudanese buyer claiming he paid $580,000 (about R8.7 million) for buffaloes he never even picked up. The farm owner even signed an affidavit confirming that exact amount.

But then, a whistleblower dropped a bombshell: they claim it wasn’t R8.7 million, but actually $4 million (R60 million) being laundered right under our noses. Now, the plot twists again with reports that R15 million was actually stolen on that "fateful day."

From R8.7m to R15m to R60m... someone is being VERY "economical with the truth." This hearing is going to be absolute fireworks because when the math doesn’t add up, it’s usually because someone is trying to hide the remainder.

What do you think? Is this a simple "misunderstanding" of the exchange rate, or are we watching a massive cover-up unfold? 🇿🇦
#PhalaPhala

[Abahambe Majola🇿🇦🇷🇺 @LadyAbahambe]

According to the affidavit submitted by the Whistleblower to the Madlanga Commission, Carim Suleiman owns 800 buses, that he bought from the state owned company, Northwest Transport Investment....

The MEC of the Department was Sello Lehari.

They sold North West Transport Investment busses to a company owned by Suliman Carrim.

They made him the highest creditor, so that they can sell him the fleet for R 25 000.00 per bus, regardless of the condition of the bus.

The same MEC is involved in a 1 billion Rand caterting tender that Suleiman paid Brown Mokgotsi to fight it so that Maumela should get it. Brown lied to Madlanga Commission regarding R 3 million that was send to him to fight this case and they lost it. Mr Mmoloki Cwaile helped Brown to construct letters.

No wonder he booked himself into hospital, before his second return to Madlanga 🤔🤔🤔

By:#PatriciaMashele

[Therapy @Mathaba2022]

The Mbombela Stadium scandal that South Africa forgot.

April 2006 – Bobby Motaung's company Lefika wins the stadium design tender using a FRAUDULENT tax clearance certificate.

Late 2008 – Council Speaker Jimmy Mohlala begins legal steps to cancel the contract & calls for criminal charges against Motaung.

5 Jan 2009 – ONE DAY before Mohlala is due to lay charges, he is ASSASSINATED outside his home in front of his son. No one has ever been convicted.

15 Aug 2012 – Hawks arrest Motaung & co-accused for fraud worth R920 million. Released on bail.

July 2016 – ALL charges dropped. Case struck off the roll. Witnesses allegedly intimidated.

2024 – Mpumalanga launches a unit to investigate political killings. Mohlala's case is listed. Nothing came of it so far

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

This man can hunt for you 3 days straight in the mountains without stopping once, track you by the slightest hint you left behind, shoot you smack in the forehead from 300 meters and go back home on time for quiet tea with his family. Iran has maybe 10 million of him.

He can also cook you the best dinner and be your most loyal and trusted friend. For some suicidal reason, the US and Israel chose option A. They're finding out

[Robin Redmile-Gordon @WhatNowDoc]

I’m sorry, I used to think the “conspiracy theorists” were just nutters. This week I’ve decided we were conned. Hear me out. That 1969 spacecraft I watched on my black and white TV had less computing power than your wristwatch, less than some thermostatic controllers I have on my walls. This week NASA sent a $93billion spacecraft to *orbit* the moon, just orbit, in preparation for an actual moon landing in a few years time.
Why on earth would it take us 57 years, and a $93b test flight, with the compute power and comms facilities we have today, if we’d already done it successfully, once before, with so little, 57 years ago.
Nah, I’m now with the conspiracy theorists.

[Rendani (MBA - Wits) @Rendani666]

At a conference in Sandton, Tondani’s iPhone was dying, so he leaned over and asked Kolobe if he could charge it on his laptop while they listened to the speaker. Kolobe said yes without thinking much of it. Six weeks later, Kolobe’s company lost R25,184,600.

A thread.

[Zintoh Mhlanga @MediaZaban865]

[Continued...]

4. Katiso “KT” Molefe
■Who is he⁉️: Sandton businessman and alleged underworld figure (born 1975; educated with economics/development studies degrees); former Provincial Manager at the National Lottery Board.
■Businesses: Hospitality and real estate; tender interests (e.g., irregular 2023 Welkom Cargo Airport tender via Matjhabeng municipality); linked to SK Group through nephew Lucky Molefe (Transnet buyer).
■Illegal activities alleged: Central Big 5 leader/hitman; handles drugs, tender fraud, and contract killings.
■Scandals/rumours: Facing multiple murder charges (including ordering the Armand Swart hit via nephew Lucky to silence a Transnet whistleblower on a 4,500% markup tender; killings of DJ Sumbody, Vintos, businessman Don Tindleni).

Ballistics link his AK-47 to several hits (including the failed attempt on Matlala's ex-girlfriend).

Controversial R400k bail in 2025 (alleged bribe involved). Commission testimony claims he and police contacts personally scouted targets; nephew Lucky rigged Transnet tenders.

Rumours call him a mastermind with cartel "fixers" derailing probes.

5. Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala
■Who is he⁉️: Pretoria tenderpreneur (born 1976, Mamelodi East roots); started in informal trade and private security.
■Businesses: Security firms (Cat VIP Protection Services); medical/health (Medicare24 Tshwane – R360m SAPS contract for police wellness, cancelled 2025 over irregularities); hospital supplies/trading (Tembisa Hospital contracts worth millions via companies like Cor Kabeng); wife’s Ekurhuleni tender; planned luxury airport lounge.

Estimated net worth R100–150m.
■Illegal activities alleged: Big 5 co-leader; drug trafficking, tender fraud, extortion, kidnappings, contract killings.
■Scandals/rumours: Arrested 2025 on attempted murder (orchestrating 2023 hit on ex-girlfriend actress Tebogo Thobejane), conspiracy, money laundering, fraud, firearms (in custody, bail denied).

-Linked to 2021 murder of Tembisa whistleblower Babita Deokaran (her probes hit his hospital contracts).
-Alleged cash bribes (R500k to ex-Police Minister Bheki Cele; R1m/month to Sibiya); influenced disbanding of Political Killings Task Team; ANC event funding via associate.
-Prison perks outrage; fake ID/offshore assets rumours; nicknamed "John Wick" for hits.
-Testified denying involvement but tied to SAPS/Metro police capture.

Note: These are allegations from ongoing #MadlangaCommission testimonies, parliamentary probes, arrests, and seized evidence (phone records, WhatsApp).

🎯Not all have been convicted; Matlala and Molefe face court active charges, while others are implicated via links.

-The cartel is described as highly sophisticated with political protection (e.g., task team disbandments).

-Public discourse (media and social media) focuses on police capture, tender looting, and hits tied to whistleblowers rumours amplify fears of their ongoing influence.
-For the latest court updates, check official SAPS or commission reports, as developments continue.

Source: @mervynsmith17

#MadlangaCommission #DjSumbody #SAPS #Presidency #AdHocCommittee #Mkhwanazi #sagov #fyp #WitnessD #fblifestyle

[Zintoh Mhlanga @MediaZaban865]

The "Big 5" (also called "The Firm")

This refers to an alleged sophisticated Gauteng-based criminal syndicate exposed during South Africa's 2025 Madlanga Commission of Inquiry into the capture of the criminal justice system by organised crime.

It is accused of drug trafficking, tender fraud/manipulation, contract killings, extortion, kidnappings, money laundering, armed hijackings, and cross-border vehicle theft, while using "fixers" (including senior SAPS officers and politicians) to infiltrate police, politics (e.g., ANC links), and the justice system for protection.

The five alleged core members/leaders (publicly identified via commission testimony from Crime Intelligence head Lt-Gen Dumisani Khumalo and others) are:

1. Jonathan “King Mswazi” / Jothan / Jotham Zanemvula Msibi (late, died January 2024)

■Who is he⁉️:
Feared Pretoria taxi-industry leader and transport mogul; former president of the South African Local and Long Distance Taxis and Buses Organisation. Described in testimony as the cartel's "president."
■Businesses: Dominant player in the taxi industry; owned a game farm north of Pretoria (frequented by politicians and business figures).
■Illegal activities alleged: Headed the syndicate's operations; tied to the broader criminal underworld and taxi violence.
■Scandals/rumours: Portrayed as ruthless and dangerous in industry killings. His ex-wife and sister-in-law were arrested in 2000 for allegedly plotting to assassinate him.

Commission witnesses (including organised crime members who called him a "father figure") link him to cartel infiltration of police and politics. Rumours swirl about his farm as a hub for powerful connections; some call him the foundational "kingpin" whose death didn't dismantle the group.

2. Steve / Steven Motsumi

■Who is he⁉️: Low-profile Johannesburg businessman and taxi operator with ties to Gauteng taxi bosses.
■Businesses: Taxi operations, construction, money lending, and possible chrome mining interests (North West).
■Illegal activities alleged: Member of the Big 5; accused of facilitating police leaks and extortion.
■Scandals/rumours: Recently labelled "South Africa's most feared criminal boss" by KZN Police Commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, who noted senior officers (e.g., Hawks head) were too scared to name him publicly.

Madlanga testimony revealed Gauteng organised crime sergeant Fannie Nkosi sharing classified police documents with him (e.g., chrome theft suspects before court).

Allegations are that he has taken over cartel operations post-Msibi; linked to meetings with suspended SAPS deputy commissioner Shadrack Sibiya and Vusimuzi Matlala. Rumours portray him as controlling tenders, officials, and narcotics with deep police influence.

3. Phehello / Irvin / Phelo Mthakathi
■Who is he⁉️: Taxi boss and businessman; associate of the late Msibi.
■Businesses: Taxi industry; private security.
■Illegal activities alleged: Big 5 member; accused of using police backchannels for sensitive info.
■Scandals/rumours: Heavy scrutiny in the Armand Swart murder investigation (Vereeniging engineer killed April 2024 in a mistaken-identity hit).

Within hours of the killing, he contacted Sgt Nkosi (30+ calls), shared a suspect's ID (Danny/Floyd Mabusela, linked to him), and accessed CCTV footage days later.

-He sent Nkosi lists of taxi violence cases tied to Msibi's circle.
-Rumours tie him to protecting cartel interests in taxi wars and using "back-door" police access; described as having a close social relationship with officers.

[Continued👇🏿]

[Rendani (MBA - Wits) @Rendani666]

In Sandton, a major audit firm signed off the financial statements of a construction company for the fourth consecutive year. The books balanced, the documentation was complete and the audit opinion was clean. Months later investigators discovered the company had been inflating project costs and siphoning millions through subcontractors linked to its own executives.

A Thread.

[Rendani (MBA - Wits) @Rendani666]

Case Study #119

A nightclub promoter begins offering VIP packages that are almost always paid in cash. Behind the scenes, the packages are often purchased by individuals seeking to convert large amounts of unexplained money into what appears to be legitimate entertainment spending.

[Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh @SizweMpofuWalsh]

Justice Madlanga will ask an apparently innocent question at 09.00 and then trap the witness with a follow-up at 15.45. 😂

[PHUTI SEMENYA®🇿🇦 ⚖️ @PhutiSemenya14]

Verbal agreements involving R56 million, while here we are signing 50-page contracts for cellphones.

[Celina 52 Truck Stop @celinatruckstop]

Our long-time Cashier Margie had to be put down this morning after a 6-month investigation found that her high score in our Pac-Man Arcade occurred while she was on the clock and not on lunch break as initially thought.

After clearing her High Score, we allowed her one last moment with the machine before ending her life.

[Lynette Ntuli @MsNtuli]

This celebration is called iHlamvu and it takes place on Christmas Eve, a day when migrant labourers would often return home after months and even years away from home. It’s a homecoming celebration of their survival and safe return from what was and still is hard labour and a hard life away from all that is familiar.

The wearing of the uniform clothing comes from familial brotherhood many of the men would form in the hostels and settlements, where they would bond, maintain and express their cultural pride through music (maskandi), indlamu (traditional dancing), stick fighting etc. So the fashion and even the choreography (which was about being smartly presented and amabutho are always coordinated!) is a subculture of the lifestyle yamaBhinca, who come from that part of the country.

The women and children then line the streets and welcome them back, kubongwa!

You will also remember that Msinga was up to fairly recently, the epicentre of violence and the training ground of hired guns ezi serious in taxi and political killings. That place had no peace in December and Easter because this would be peak “score settlement” season. So it’s beautiful to see how they have turned an ugly past around, and the holidays from a time of fear to festivity.

Ihlamvu: A branch or in this case different branches from a common place. So if you apply it contextually to what’s happening and how each isigodi is represented ngomfaniswano (uniform | same clothes) kwingezo (dt: cleaned up!) then it makes sense.

Hope this helps. Others will add their notes too. Thanks to those who asked.

[TOTS DI BILLION @Vuittots]

Travel A bit
Hennessy is not only sold ko Makubenjalo, le ko Thailand eteng and it’s cheaper.