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[RamanehellaJ🇿🇦PSAF @KhofuMoahloli]

Hi, we have until 2 October to object Eskom's plan to raise electricity prices by 8.8%.
We can object by sending comments 2 NERSA. I've sent mine.
If many ppl send comments, NERSA may have proof to reject Eskom’s plan.
Comment here https://t.co/tW85IzAv0V https://t.co/ROYZtXQ6KE

[Kenzie Goldberg ✴︎ reflections @KenzieGoldberg]

[THREAD 🧵] A material discrepancy in a criminal charge sheet for Schedule 6 offences like rape and human trafficking isn't just a "typo." It is a catastrophic vulnerability for the prosecution.🚨
Let’s unpack the profound date contradiction in the State's case against Sibiya, and why it matters.

1/ The Two-Month Time Travel - The preamble of Sibiya’s charge sheet claims he trafficked victims on 16 July 2026. Yet, the specific formulations for Counts 4 & 5 (trafficking & rape) place the EXACT same event.. a trip to the Garden Court Hotel & The Grand on 16 May 2026.

[Kenzie Goldberg ✴︎ reflections @KenzieGoldberg]

A glaring "date contradiction" has emerged in Sibiya's criminal charge sheet. Let's unpack what this "error" really means in the broader political game.
The State's charge sheet against Sibiya places the exact same alleged trafficking episode two months apart. The preamble claims the accused trafficked complainants BQ, NM, and MC on "16 July 2026". However, the narrative... including the specific formulations for Count 4 (trafficking in persons) and Count 5 (rape) places the same outing at the Garden Court Hotel and The Grand strip club on "May 16".

Incompetence or Calculated Sabotage?
When prosecuting a high-profile top cop for severe crimes like rape and human trafficking, you do not accidentally make a two-month typo on the date of the core offence. As the article notes, conflicting dates are critical because the State must align its timeline with hotel bookings, electronic communications, and transport records. In criminal law, this is the easiest way for defence lawyers to collapse a prosecution. Is the State deliberately botching this charge sheet to ensure Senzo's loyal proxy walks free on a technicality?

🤫When the NPA was asked if they intended to amend the charge sheet or if the discrepancy was raised during Sibiya’s September 22 court appearance, spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago conveniently declined to comment. Contrast this sudden "no comment" stance with how enthusiastically the state machinery (via IDAC) leaked and rushed baseless perjury and PFMA charges against Gen. Masemola!

The system weaponizes the law flawlessly to persecute the Top Cop who resisted unlawful political directives, yet suddenly drafts contradictory, self-sabotaging charge sheets when prosecuting the suspended deputy who facilitated the operational collapse. They are not just protecting the politicians... they are actively providing loopholes for the henchmen.

[I AM SOUTH AFRICAN @lEsethuHasane]

Thank you @zola_hashatsi , you paid for hire campaign allowed me to speak frankly about Archie and his crew.

They made a terrible legal mistake by hiring you to come here to call me a “so called whistleblower,” - as my employer did.

South African laws allow me to defend myself when impugned by lairs who through their conduct threaten my life.

What a touch

[I AM SOUTH AFRICAN @lEsethuHasane]

The same Archie Tigere that that applied for and got Covid Relief, he is not a create nor is a South African.

This is the greed I was talking about; someone just sent me this.

I wonder if @zola_hashatsi got the COVID Relief money, as a South African artist

[I AM SOUTH AFRICAN @lEsethuHasane]

When I arrived at the Department, these companies I have learned had worked for 5 months, and had received their first million through this scheme.

This is a payment of just one invoice; I have many, and do not intend to share them. Until the Acing Director General stops addressing me through the staff, even to suggest I am mad.

Further, Bowmans alerted me that there is a clear and obvious plan by implicated officials to blame me for this scheme. They however that such is not backed by any evidence unlike those officials who are all over the emails doing all sorts with these companies.

I am providing you with this information: in defense of my dignity that continues to be impugned by the Acting Director General.

These documents are before parliament, the presidency, auditor general, before the courts, labor court, bargaining council and the Public protector and are not privileged.

The more he speaks - the more I share.

[Sunday Times @SundayTimesZA]

A Special Investigating Unit (SIU) probe uncovered systemic fraud and corruption in South Africa’s liquidation system involving Master’s Office officials, liquidators, and insolvency practitioners. https://t.co/XSC50aXuqj

[I AM SOUTH AFRICAN @lEsethuHasane]

THE MAIN BOSS - HIS STAFF - & THREE COMPANIES OWNED BY THEM.

Dear Colleagues at the Department of Transport

I am writing to give you a further update on my protected disclosure concerning procurement irregularities in the Department, following a Heritage Address by the Director General where he spoke about me without mentioning my name and to explain why I continue to raise this matter publicly, since he speaks as if I woke up on a random morning and disclosed departmental information.

Correction to the amount involved.

I previously estimated the irregular expenditure at R15 million. I have since been corrected on this figure, after listening to my own recordings with investigator: the amount is R17 million.

Here is the ownership structure of the service providers that were presented as independent entities to the Department of Transport.

The main owner, Archie, owned Tigere Creative. Two of his own staff members were used as the registered owners of two further companies, Mampego and PTS.

Between them received millions of rands in payments, read the AGSA findings.

Why I am sharing this now

1.The employer's statement impugning my sanity, dignity and professional standing remains published, it was sent to the entire nation and I only went out public after this statement, my responded to it, on time and immediately, my dignity reigns supreme more than any employment - as you have seen, it was also sent to ALL STAFF; I have asked, respectfully, for it to be taken down. It has not been.

https://t.co/DvcRmZuWle the Heritage Day celebrations, the Director-General addressed all staff and, without naming me directly, warned colleagues in Finance and HR against leaking files to people who take them to social media. When I raised this with him directly after, he described such people as "snitches" telling me lies to rile me up: I am therefore worried about my colleagues, snitches get stitches you know.

https://t.co/wtPPVndsOr the same address, speaking in Sepedi, he remarked that it is spring, that the trees are turning green, we have such saying in isiXhosa and it usually suggests that someone has "gone mad." Again, no name was mentioned. But this was on the topic of a recent social media storm that related to the department.

The inference in points 2 and 3 is clear enough. It is not "snitches" who rile me up; it is the Director-General himself. I asked him, in good faith, to remove the statement and to stop impugning my dignity and my sanity. He has continued to do so, including during my suspension.

If raising clear and documented corruption is what is being called madness, then I call on all of us to be mad enough to say so.

This will stop when two things happen: the statement against me is withdrawn, and the Director-General stops impugning my sanity and my dignity on account of my refusal to stay silent about corruption.

I will correct him through my words platforms since he is using his, the department ALL email address and through speeches to you.

Regards,

Esethu Hasane

[Julian Rademeyer @julianrademeyer]

The Department of @HealthZA paid a R182 million to two companies to market and promote various health campaigns, diverting money from programmes conducting critical healthcare operations, including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and child nutrition, documents show. The bulk – R146 million – went to KMTV Media, directed by former City Press editor Khathu Mamaila, who has been paid R146 million off a R1 620 contract. Mamaila has a long involvement with @SAEditorsForum and served as its media freedom chair
https://t.co/4JGwtW2yPS

[Kgoshi Ya Lebowa @Mothematiks]

Tshepo Matloha, a 19-year old black teenager, was beaten to death on March 25 2001 by members of the Noordelikes rugby team on a game farm near Dendron in Limpopo.

Matloha & two cousins were hunting small animals with dogs on the Inderheken game farm (owned by the Botha family).

Nine members of the Noordelikes Rugby Club, who were having a team-bonding session on the farm, confronted & shot at the group. Matloha was caught & severely beaten with fists & boots, suffering a fractured skull & crushed chest.

After Matloha died, the perpetrators loaded his body into a vehicle, drove it off the farm, & dumped it in the Arabie Dam to hide the crime. His body later surfaced.

[🇿🇦El🇿🇦 @El123V]

@Sunflowerreal I am so tired of this drama on repeat @NPA_Prosecutes . Seriously this is enough 🔥🔥🔥

[Amanda Mamzangwa 😍❤️ @Amanda_Umxhosa]

Guys??? There’s a new scam from amaphara now. They come dressed in what appears to be SAPS uniform. Their intentions are to rob you and clear your home. I’ve heard this is already happening in Gqeberha. Please be careful ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

More than 900 wheelchairs donated by two Australian charities have reportedly been blocked from entering Gaza for over a year. The UN says Gaza has the world’s highest concentration of child amputees.

Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim AlKhalili reports.

[DIRCO South Africa @DIRCO_ZA]

READ | South African white genocide does not exist, new ambassador to US tells BBC - BBC News https://t.co/0ndlalhqor

[Minister of Electricity @VITO_G_Wagon]

Maria was brutally shot and killed by white farmer.

Why are white people allowed to do this nonsense?

[Afrikaners vir SA @AfrikanersVirSA]

STATEMENT

Farm victims should not be political props

Afrikaners for South Africa (AfSA) strongly condemns Lex Libertas’s planned display of 3 000 white crosses in Washington, DC. We believe the campaign exploits the suffering of farm victims to advance a narrow political agenda, presents Americans with a misleading picture of South Africa and risks deepening racial divisions at home.

We are Afrikaners. We unequivocally condemn farm killings and all violence against farming communities. Victims deserve justice, survivors need support, and rural safety requires urgent action.

Our concern is that their suffering is being used to tell a misleading story and advance a private political agenda.

The evidence does not support a campaign of racial persecution:
South Africa’s violent-crime crisis affects every community, including black farmers and farmworkers. Research indicates that farm attacks are driven mainly by robbery and other criminal motives rather than by a coordinated campaign of racial persecution. This does not rule out racial hatred in a handful of individual attacks, but it challenges the picture the cross campaign presents.

Grief is not a mandate for self-governance:
Lex Libertas openly links the crosses to its personal pursuit of American support for white “self-governance” (https://t.co/lPgPtuLtm9). That political ambition deserves scrutiny on its own merits. The deaths of farm victims cannot serve as a mandate for it.

The organisers should explain what this spectacle will achieve for those still living with the threat of violence. Will it improve policing, speed up emergency responses, or provide lasting support for grieving families? Its success should be measured in those terms, not in headlines or political theatre.

South Africans could pay the price:
The distorted narrative could discourage tourism and investment in South Africa. Within South Africa, it can inflame racial suspicion and undermine cooperation between communities whose safety depends on one another.

The Trump administration’s aid cuts, visa restrictions and threats of further action suggest that South Africa is already being used to score political points in the US. With American midterm elections approaching, we fear this display will give that campaign fresh ammunition. South Africans should not pay the price for a small faction’s political point-scoring and fundraising in America.

Lex Libertas and its associates speak for a minority:
Lex Libertas does not speak for all Afrikaners or all South Africans. We ask Americans to listen to a wider range of South African voices and, should they wish, support practical and honest efforts to reduce violence across all communities.

Honour all victims. Demand the full picture. Help us build a safer, more united South Africa.

[Mike Simon @Jakemoses101]

Most of the people whose names appear on those crosses are still very much alive. And many of them were murdered by their spouses for life insurance payouts..This fake Afrikaner genocide narrative is all part of a strategic plan by the USA and Israel to counter South Africa's

[Justice, Crime Prevention and Security @CrimeWatch_RSA]

Leiutenant General Jan Petrus Scheepers: LIMPOPO PROVINCIAL COMMISSIONER

[Sėgõpî @iamSegopi]

@Maokeke28 The mere fact thst @SAPoliceService do not have a national whatsapp or sms tip-off lone are things that are holding us back. They do not even promote their own app. The management of @SAPoliceService needs a serious wake up call. @athlenda

[JvL 🇿🇦 @JvanLogg]

The illicit alcohol market in South Africa has expanded from an opportunistic underworld hustle into a highly sophisticated R25.1 billion (annual tax loss R16.5 billion) parallel shadow industry.

The scams:

1. Syndicates obtain discarded/fake bottles of popular whiskies, brandies and vodka. These are refilled with cheap, unregulated industrial ethanol or toxic methanol and then resealed using counterfeit caps, labels, and cloned excise stamps, and reintroduced directly into unverified retail pipelines. Methanol toxicity poses fatal health risks, causing permanent blindness, organ failure, or death.

2. Some are of these “poison liquor” products are unknown brands or made up brands sold as cheap alternatives.

3. Unscrupulous producers legally manufacture products but intentionally under-declare or misclassify their true production volumes to the South African Revenue Service (SARS). By filtering thousands of litres of pure alcohol into the market off the books, they completely bypass excise duties.

4. Contraband and raw ingredients cross borders untaxed.

5. Transit diversion: high-proof ethanol is imported under declaration that it is "in transit" to neighboring African nations. Because it is marked for export, no local duties are paid. Syndicates then illegally offload and divert the chemical into South African warehouses to blend backyard spirits.

Between 1994 to 2014, the illicit portion of the alcohol industry hovered at 10% to 13%. This translated to an annual loss of around R2.5 billion.

During this period, SARS ran a specialised project pressuring the major syndicate involved. In a major judicial precedent, Peter Haupt, was criminally prosecuted in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court for violating the Customs and Excise Act after SARS teams discovered he had tampered with and broken the official revenue seals to continue illicit bottling off the books.

SARS also conducted investigations into special duty free shops in Gauteng. This project was disrupted from 2014 onwards as enforcement at SARS was dismantled.

While the legal alcohol market grew, SARS’s real excise tax revenue collections also began to stagnate and drop significantly relative to market size between 2015 and 2018.

By 2017, Euromonitor International pinned the 2017 illicit market share at 15%, translating to annual tax losses of R4.6 billion.

By 2019, the estimated parallel market was at R12.9 billion and annual tax loss estimated at R6.4 billion. It reflects an illicit economy that had expanded due to the State Capture purges at law enforcement agencies and SARS.

During the Covid Lockdown and total ban of alcohol in 2020, the illicit marked peaked at an estimated 22% translating to R20.5 billion and an annual revenue loss of R11.3 billion.

2019-2024: The alcohol project was reignited in 2019 when SARS reconstituted enforcement capacity. Of 6 suspect operations, 5 were shut down by SARS and a loss of around R100 million per month was stopped. 206 diplomats were implicated and many were expelled by government.

In 2025, the illicit part was estimated at 18%, translating to R25.1 billion, with an estimated R16 billion annual tax loss.

2025: Bronkhorstspruit: SARS and SAPS bust workers actively decanting a 40,000-litre tanker of high-proof ethanol - falsely earmarked for export to Zimbabwe - into distribution flow-bins to produce illegal liquor locally. The operation uncover 92,000 litres of illicit ethanol and illegal fuel-adulteration facility, dealing an R11 million blow to the syndicate.

2025: Midrand: Hawks uncover illegal manufacturing facility and distillery in Midrand, seize R2 million worth of illicit alcohol already packaged under cloned, commercial brand labels.

2026: Kempton Park: SARS, SAPS & Hawks intercept 26,000-litre consignment of 96% pure imported ethanol, preventing R9.1 million tax loss.

2026: Plankenburg: SAPS, Western Cape Liquor Authority & SARS raid confiscated illicit liquor valued at R12 million.