As a Public Policy and Administration student, I was introduced to the ideas of one of the great visionaries of modern governance, the legendary Lee Kuan Yew, the founding Prime Minister of modern Singapore.
It was an honour to be invited by Singapore's Minister for National Development, Hon. Chee Hong Tat, to the inaugural Lee Kuan Yew Prize & Network Mayoral Fellowship as one of only four invited mayors.
I value opportunities such as these to present and position the City of Tshwane not only as the Capital City of the Republic, with its unique significance, but also as a city that must compete confidently among its global counterparts while never losing its soul — the very essence that makes it home to the people of Tshwane.
I am deeply grateful for the tables I continue to sit at and the opportunity to ensure that Tshwane's story is part of the global conversation.
NOW:
STATEMENT:
NPA’s IDAC CLAIRIFIES WARRANTS OF ARREST AGAINST SAPS MEMBERS
The NPA’s Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC), notes further reports on mainstream media and social media following a media statement issued by IDAC on 18 June 2026. These further reports are both untrue and speculative.
The IDAC can confirm that warrants of arrest were issued against General Dumisani Khumalo and Major General Nosipho Madondo only and no one else from the SAPS. The two individuals were contacted by IDAC investigators to present themselves at the Brooklyn police station on 18 June 2026.
Subsequent to the communication with the two officers, the IDAC received information that the affected officers were part of the Justice Crime Prevention and Security cluster team that is assigned to prepare for a national security measure before and on 30 June 2026 in relation to immigration issues. In the interest of ensuring synergy and efficiency in the work of that team, IDAC thus decided to suspend the execution of the warrants of arrest until the assignment of the two officers is completed. The two officers were subsequently contacted to no longer hand themselves over prior to their arrival at Brooklyn police station.
Any unrelated information circulated about the arrest of other officers apart from the two is false and should be treated as such.
Kaizer Kanyago
NPA National
@eNCA
#CountryDuty
Just in:
The Equality Court has found #NgizweMchunu guilty of hate speech, unfair discrimination & contravention of the Equality laws and ordered him to:
1. Permanently not publish any further material on any online platform that directly and indirectly discriminates against any LGBQTIA+ persons or communities.
2. His march to Mai Mai on 5 October 2025 constituted harassment against gay and lesbian people.
3. He is permanently prohibited from instigating any persons from intimidating any gay or lesbian people & LGBTQIA+ persons
4. He is ordered to publish an apology 5 days from today on his Facebook page and pin it for 3 months.
5. He is ordered to pay R250k to an organisation chosen by the Human Rights Commission.
6. He must go sensitivity training within 120 days of the order.
7. He must pay legal fees for the SA Human Rights Attorneys.
https://t.co/V4aKNXbu3I
[BREAKING]
The Eastern Cape High Court in Makhanda has ruled that the ANC unlawfully appointed its Eastern Cape Provincial Task Team.
The PTT has been suspended, its decisions declared invalid, and the ANC ordered to pay attorney-and-client costs. @Newzroom405
[APOLOGY ORDER AGAINST PATRCIA MORGAN-MASHALE IN DEFAMATION CASE]
The Free State Division of the High Court, Bloemfontein granted the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) an order against Ms Patricia Morgan-Mashale in a defamation case heard today, 18 June 2026.
In his order, Judge N.S. Daniso declared the statements or posts made by Ms Morgan-Mashale to be defamatory, unlawful, false, intended to injure and violate the NDPP’s right to dignity. In terms of the court order, she is further interdicted from posting, spreading, publishing or making known to the public in whatever form, any comment and/or information on any social media platforms and/or newspapers.
In addition, she is ordered to immediately permanently delete the original Facebook publications made and to publish a formal apology to the NDPP, affected NPA prosecutors and officials on her Facebook page within seven (7) days of the granting of this order. The formal apology must remain on her Facebook page for a period of 60 (sixty days) and she has been ordered to pay the costs of the application.
This follows an application launched in 2025 by the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) against Ms Morgan-Mashale in response to her publication of false and misleading statements of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP): Free State Division and officials within that office, accusing them of being corrupt for making various payments which she described as bribes relating to a particular case that the office was seized with.
These defamatory statements were posted on her Facebook account in 2025 on various dates. At all material times, she was requested to provide proof of her allegations, to the extent that the NPA’s Office for Ethics and Accountability (OEA) allocated an investigator to consider all the evidence she claimed to possess in support of her allegations. However, she has never been able to provide such proof, yet she continues to impugn the dignity and reputation of the prosecutors with wild allegations.
The Legal Affairs Division in the NPA, through the State Attorney issued her with a cease-and-desist letter calling upon her to refrain from making spurious allegations against the DPP and our prosecutors. Ms Morgan-Mashele ignored this letter and that paved the way for the application heard today.
The NPA is vindicated by the judgment given the personal and reputational damage to the DPP, the NDPP, our prosecutors as well as the NPA as an organisation within the criminal justice system.
The NDPP, Adv Andy Mothibi says “In as much as we appreciate the right to freedom of expression but that right carries with it a responsibility to respect the rights of other human beings to dignity and not have such rights violated unjustly. We will not hesitate to use every legally permissible avenue to protect our prosecutors who are committed to the pursuit of the rule of law and proper administration of justice”.
The NPA Communication Unit will monitor Ms Morgan- Mashale’s social media pages to ensure that the court order is complied with.
Ngizwe Mchunu saying goodbye 👋 to Malawian illegal foreigners that are being repatriated in Durban
Telling them to go fix and fight for their country, so that will come visit each other peacefully.
The spirit of Ubuntu, we don't hate African brothers, we hate the behavior and we fighting our systems #Abahambe
BREAKING: The suspended head of organized crime, Major General Richard Shibiri, has been fired.
Sources tell @eNCA the dismissal relates to bringing the SAPS into disrepute by associating with Vusimusi Cat Matlala.
Shibiri received the dismissal letter on May 22nd.
Sources say Shibiri will appeal the decision.
His devices have also been returned by the CRTT.
#MadlangaCommission
@Abramjee
DEVELOPING: @eNCA
MADLANGA COMMISSION SUBMITS SECOND INTERIM REPORT TO PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA STATEMENT BY JEREMY MICHAELS, SPOKESPERSON OF THE COMMISSION
The Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Criminality, Political Interference and Corruption in the Criminal Jusice System, commonly known as the Madlanga Commission, has submitted its Second Interim Report to President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The Commission’s Chairperson, Jusice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, assisted by Adv Sesi Baloyi SC and Adv Sandile Khumalo SC, was appointed by President Ramaphosa on 23 July 2025 to invesigate the allegations made earlier that month by Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla
Mkhwanazi, the South African Police Service (SAPS) Provincial Commissioner for KwaZuluNatal.
After a break from public hearings following submission of the First Interim Report on 17 December 2025, the Commission resumed its work on 5 January 2026 and commenced
public hearings on 26 January 2026.
Since then, the Commission has heard 32 witnesses over 64 days of hearings covering the South African Police Service (SAPS), Ekhurhuleni
Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD), and Tshwane Metropolitan Police Department
(TMPD).
On 12 March 2026, the President extended the term of the Commission from 17 March to
31 August 2026, with a requirement that the Commission submit a Second Interim Report by 29 May 2026 and a Final Report by 31 August 2026.
The Commission will resume its public hearings this coming Monday, 1 June 2026, with further tesimony relating to the Port Shepstone drug bust.
Several witnesses who have previously appeared before the Commission are due to return,
including Minister Senzo Mchunu, Major-General Lesetja Senona and EMPD Deputy Chief Julius Mkhwanazi, amongst others.
A number of new witnesses are under subpoena to appear in coming weeks. The inquiry will continue to run phases one and two in parallel, with phase one being the airing of allegations, and phase two broadly being the responses by implicated individuals to specific allegations against them as well as giving those implicated persons the opportunity
to tell their side of the story.
An announcement will be made in due course regarding phase three, which will see Lt-Gen Mkhwanazi, Lt-Gen Dumisani Khumalo and others return to the witness stand.
//ENDS
ISSUED BY THE JUDICIAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO CRIMINALITY, POLITICAL
INTERFERENCE AND CORRUPTION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYS
We are pleased to inform residents of Tshwane that the City continues to honour, without fail, its debt agreement signed with Eskom in December 2024.
Before we took office, as a Multiparty Coalition Government, the City was plagued with threats of disconnection by the power utility. The debt at the time stood at R6,7 billion. @CityTshwane
DEVELOPING:
General Firoz Khan has filed an application before the JHB high Court on an urgent basis to interdict the SAPS from downloading, dissementing, copying data from his devices and subjecting his devices for forensic examination.
He has also directed in his court application that his seized cellphone devices and laptops be brought back to him.
Khan further wants to declare the "warrantless search" by members of the SAPS at his residence in Houghton unlawful and unconstitutional.
@eNCA@Abramjee
Yeah!
@eNCA has exclusively learned that Brown Mogotsi has been arrested.
He was nabbed by Gauteng Detectives and PKTT between Pretoria and Johannesburg.
He is in custody at a police station in Gauteng, undisclosed for security reasons.
Tune into @eNCA@Abramjee
EXCLUSIVE LEAD:
Prominent taxi boss Joe "Ferrari" Sibanyoni has been arrested.
Sources say he was taken by the STF just after 12pm. Its believed its related to an extortion case
He has been linked to a relationship with alleged underworld figures; most notably Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala
The name Joe Ferrari has come up in several investigations; including violence in the taxi industry.
@eNCA@Abramjee