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[Yusuf Abramjee @Abramjee]

Who was Lt.Gen Mfazi?

Lieutenant-General Sindile Christopher "Pitso" Mfazi was a highly decorated South African law enforcement official who served as the Deputy National Commissioner of Crime Detection for the South African Police Service (SAPS).

He passed away on 8 July 2021 at the age of 59.

While his death was officially reported at the time as being caused by Covid-19 complications, subsequent forensic developments and parliamentary testimonies have firmly pointed toward a fatal poisoning and targeted assassination linked to his high-level corruption investigations.

In July 2021, SAPS management announced that Mfazi died of Covid-19.

Suspicious of foul play, his family secured a court order to exhume his body for an independent forensic and toxicology analysis.

The independent results conclusively revealed that Mfazi had been poisoned with liquid casting resin (a synthetic industrial chemical), which caused him to choke to death.

According to testimony presented by whistleblowers and former intelligence officers to Parliament's ad hoc committee, Mfazi was assassinated because he was actively probing massive multi-billion rand corruption networks.

He was investigating a coordinated siphoning operation involving a R1.6 billion Covid-19 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)procurement fraud ring operating directly out of SAPS headquarters.

The Mfazi Foundation has noted that Mfazi was a lead investigator reviewing the controversial Phala Phala farm burglary matter and the alleged misuse of SAPS Crime Intelligence funds.

Before his death, Mfazi reportedly confided in close intelligence analysts that he considered SAPS national headquarters to be an active, compromised "crime scene".

Whistleblowers testified that while Mfazi’s body was still upstairs in his house on the night of his death, senior police officials from SAPS national head office arrived at his home to seize and remove his investigative files before his widow could arrive.

The Mfazi family and foundation have publically called on former Crime Intelligence heads to disclose and return the missing dossier of investigative records taken from his estate.

Over 15,000 citizens have signed a petition backed by the family calling on the Speaker of Parliament for a formal transparent inquiry into the state’s failure to make a breakthrough.

@pule_jones @DasenThathiah @eNCA

[SABC News @SABCNews]

OPINION | The City of Ekurhuleni has increasingly become a case study that demands closer examination. The allegations emerging from the Madlanga Commission, criminal investigations, arrests involving municipal officials, and persistent reports about questionable procurement raise a far more uncomfortable question than whether there was simply poor governance.

Did the criminal underworld infiltrate and effectively hijack one of South Africa’s largest metropolitan municipalities? https://t.co/CbFc5w2J2E

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

But nothing will ever be the same again. The WHOLE world now knows that the US is an international BULLY which can only terrorise the world to do its will. Nobody acts out of love. This is true from tariffs and trade to threats of annexation to invasion and war. And football.

[#cálmate @Nazarloonat]

@georgegalloway Not forgetting ...uhm...sanctions

[Arjun Sethi @arjunsethi81]

FIFA won’t intervene when Iran is forced to relocate to Mexico and banned from training in the U.S., but they’ll break their own rules to reinstate a U.S. player.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

🚨We are deeply alarmed by the reports that there is an imminent threat to Dr. #HussamAbuSafiya’s life as a result of torture and other ill treatment he has been suffering while in Israeli custody. Israeli authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Dr. Abu Safiya. Pending his release, we call on the Israeli Prison service to ensure he is fully protected from abuse, granted urgent adequate medical care and allowed immediate visitation by independent monitors.

Act now: https://t.co/vaPOQtMRC4

#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

"Israeli soldiers had entered the village. When they neared the school’s playground, they began firing teargas. Mohammad and his friends escaped. He stopped about 100 metres away and stood with his arms folded. Then one of the soldiers fired"

[CATHERINE CONSTANTINIDES @ChangeAgentSA]

I think back fondly to my time in Venezuela just a short few months ago and cannot help but think of the beautiful people of Venezuela who have been devastated by the recent earthquakes. We continue to hold the nation in our every thought and prayer 🇻🇪🙏🏽🇿🇦❤️

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

In 1954, the United States overthrew the democratically elected, socialist government of Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala🇬🇹. Árbenz had instituted land reforms that nationalised unused land, heavily impacting the American-owned United Fruit Company.

In 1964, the United States backed a military coup that ousted democratic social-democrat President João Goulart in Brazil🇧🇷 in 1964. Goulart had proposed progressive tax and land reforms, which Washington feared would lead to a “second Cuba”.

In 1965, the US and UK actively supported the anti-communist military faction in Indonesia🇮🇩 as they marginalised the socialist President Sukarno. The transition was accompanied by the mass slaughter of 1 million members of the Indonesian Communist Party, utilising intelligence lists provided by US officials.

Before Guyana🇬🇾 gained independence in 1966, the CIA and British intelligence covertly funded disruptive general strikes and destabilised the democratically elected, Marxist-oriented Premier Cheddi Jagan, successfully forcing him out of power before independence.

In 1971, the US supported the military coup in Bolivia🇧🇴 to overthrow General Juan José Torres, a leftist leader who had nationalised American mining properties and established a “People's Assembly”.

In Chile🇨🇱, Marxist President Salvador Allende was democratically elected. So, the Unites States actively worked to destabilise the Chilean economy. “Make the economy scream”, they said, before backing a 1973 violent military coup led by Augusto Pinochet, during which President Allende was killed.

In 1983, the US launched a full-scale military invasion called Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada🇬🇩 in 1983 to depose the military council and halt Cuban influence on the island.

There’s the 1953 coup in Iran🇮🇷. The 66-year long embargo on Cuba🇨🇺. The Cold War on the Soviet Union & the Eastern Bloc. The 76-year long sanctions on North Korea🇰🇵. The 1975 - 1994 embargo on Communist Vietnam🇻🇳. The funding of Contra rebel groups in Nicaragua🇳🇮 in 1985 - 1990. The sanctions on the Chávista government in Venezuela🇻🇪, culminating in the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇱🇧 The mayors, mukhtars, and local leaders of 15 predominantly Christian villages in southern Lebanon have rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim on Fox News that they sought annexation by Israel.

In a joint statement reported by L’Orient Today, they called the allegation “completely fabricated,” saying they remain committed to Lebanon’s sovereignty and are “proud of their national identity.” Several of the villages remain isolated inside Israel’s occupation zone in southern Lebanon.

🔗 Quds News reported on how the false claim originated: https://t.co/m0GtjtY8H1

[TRHaber @trhaber_com]

“Bu babamla ilgili son çağrım: Onu kurtarın!”

📣 Gazzeli kahraman Doktor Hussam Abu Safiya’nın oğlundan babası için SON çağrı!

▪️Babam artık nefes almakta zorlanıyor.
Konuşamıyor
.
▪️Yüzü, gördüğü işkence yüzünden tanınmaz halde.

▪️Ne acı ki, büyük bir yalnızlığa terk edildik.
İki milyardan fazla Müslümana, yirmi ikiden fazla Arap ve İslam ülkesine seslendik. Ama siz duymazdan geldiniz.

▪️Size bir kez daha yalvarıyor, çağrıda bulunuyor, yardım istiyoruz. Çok geç olmadan babamın hayatını kurtarın.

▪️Belki de bu, son yardım çığlığımız olacak. Belki bir daha babamdan haber alamayacağız.

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Hundreds rally in Tel Aviv calling for release of Gaza doctor Abu Safiya held without trial https://t.co/84wPCRh3yI

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

@RamAbdu @HussamAbuSafiya Shame. BBC features prominently on my next report to the General Assembly.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

BBC lied by omission —it parroted Israeli claims about @HussamAbuSafiya instead of demanding evidence. He remains jailed without charge as lawyers warn his life is at imminent risk. BBC: stop amplifying Israeli propaganda—do journalism.

[Radio Islam @radioislam]

Trump, the Red Card & FIFA: Do We Do the Same in Our Communities?

Donald Trump publicly asked FIFA to review a red card shown to a USA player.

FIFA later suspended the automatic ban, insisting it acted within its rules.

But perhaps the bigger question is one for all of us: do we only object when powerful people influence decisions on the world stage, or are we equally concerned when wealth, status or connections shape outcomes in our own communities?

[Katy Katopodis @KatyKatopodis]

Public Protector finds Cape Town’s service delivery failures amount to maladministration https://t.co/5odwhT1LUc

[Chriselda Zozi Lewis (Babes Wendaba & Bullet) @Chriseldalewis]

#IPIDArrests
#Madlanga

[HAPPENING NOW]

The third suspect in 14 million rand precious stones theft case is Kersha Leigh Stols. She resigned from the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department about a year ago after investigations began.
The arrests follow Witness K, who was a JMPD officer and the former girlfriend of suspended EMPD Deputy Chief Julius Mkhwanazi, who testified at the Madlanga Commission that she and Mkhwanazi plotted the theft.
She is also facing charges of robbery with aggravated circumstances and fraud.
Stols also apparently sent a WhatsApp to Witness K referring to the IPID assistant director, Thulani Magagula as evil as he was investigatjng this matter and that so called plans Stols claimed were made with the Director of Public Prosecutions to have ... sorted out. This implying to make the case go away.

#sabcnews

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

US Congresswoman Delia Ramirez has called for the release of Dr Hussam Abu Safia, the director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, who was abducted by Israeli forces on December 27, 2024.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/jqlQqy5Ecu

[Katy Katopodis @KatyKatopodis]

“All I did was I asked for a review, because I didn’t think it was a foul. And you know I’m good at this stuff, I didn’t think it was foul…
That wasn’t a foul. That wasn’t even an infraction”

What a blatant and unprecedented act of political interference that has no place in a World Cup!
FIFA has serious questions to answer!

[#cálmate @Nazarloonat]

@Tonyexposed @KatyKatopodis 😂🤣🥳........🥊