In 1991, Vasile Gorgos, a 63-year-old cattle seller from rural Romania, told his family that he was heading on a business trip.
He often went on business trips to various cities in Romania to sell his cattle, so this wasn’t unusual. He left and told his family he’d be back in a couple of days, but the reality was that this was the last time his family saw him for three decades.
The family reported his disappearance to Police, but nothing ever came out of it. His family eventually assumed he had fallen victim to foul play or suffered a tragic accident.
But 30 years later in August 2021, a car stopped in front of the Gorgos' family house and dropped off Vasile, who was now aged 93.
Vasile looked to be in a clean and tidy condition, meaning wherever he had been for the last 30 years he was well taken care of.
When asked by reporters and family where he was all these years, he replied candidly, ‘I was home.'”
In 2016, parents were outraged after pedophile Marcelo Fabian Pecollo, who was guilty of molesting kids at their school, was released from prison after serving just 4 years of his 30 year sentence. As a result, the parents savagely beat him to death with his trumpet.
I’ve read the 48 page NHI Bill that was passed yesterday and summarized it for your perusal.
Here’s a concise thread and summary of the National Health Insurance (NHI) bill in South Africa and to fully apprehend the bills intention and how it impacts you👇:
Read a new report from the Initiative for Good Governance and Human Rights, that shows how Chinese copper and cobalt mining is “wrecking lives” in the DRCRead a new report from the Initiative for Good Governance and Human Rights, that shows how Chinese copper and cobalt mining is “wrecking lives” in the DRCRead a new report from the Initiative for Good Governance and Human Rights, that shows how Chinese copper and cobalt mining is “wrecking lives” in the DRCRead a new report from the Initiative for Good Governance and Human Rights, that shows how Chinese copper and cobalt mining is “wrecking lives” in the DRC.
Ralph Stanfield is South Africa's most powerful alleged underworld figure. He is unique in that his underworld influence bridges the gap between traditionally black criminals operating in Gugulethu, Nyanga, and Khayelitsha, and traditionally coloured gangs in the coloured areas of the Cape Flats.
He is the nephew of Colin Stanfield, the former leader of The Firm - an amalgamation of gang bosses - and the 28s - SA's most powerful gang - both of which he allegedly inherited.
He was a close friend of slain lawyer Pete Mihalik and stands in opposition to the Mark Lifman/Jerome "Donkie" Booysen alleged underworld axis. (read some of my work on Mihalik's murder and the Modack extortion trial for why this is important).
The organisation he allegedly controls is behind large-scale drug trafficking, gun trafficking, murder, corruption, extortion, and tender rigging through force (construction mafia).
His arrest is the single biggest step taken against organised crime in the Western Cape, and probably in South Africa, in the last decade.
The police are using a truly novel tactic in South African policing to frustrate him, that being basic police work. The cases on which he's been arrested are not major organised crime cases (he is facing charges relating to organised crime too in relation to his alleged corrupting of police institutions to ensure that he gets gun licenses for his gangs).
They are small cases, meticulously followed up by some of South Africa's most experienced (albeit greyish) investigators.
It's going to be a war of attrition, a death by a thousand cuts, that has proved extremely successful in persecuting organised crime bosses in America and other countries over the decades.
In South Africa, a recent example of this approach is the approach taken by the police with Nafiz Modack.
Modack made the mistake of pissing on police minister Bheki Cele's turf when he went to Beerhouse (a Cape Town restaurant that has for years been extorted by various underworld factions just like every other bar or restaurant in Cape Town) the day after Cele promised the restaurants in the area, including Beerhouse, that the police would keep them safe from intimidation and extortion.
Yeah right, they thought, when Modack arrived the next night with his heavily armed bodyguards and entered Beerhouse to speak to the manager. Some things don't have to be said for people to understand what they mean, and Modack's presence there meant to say "we own this town, we own enough police to stay out of trouble". Well, Cele went and got a group of investigators from Pretoria and Johannesburg and sent them to Cape Town with the understanding that they can go home once Modack's money is finished and he learns to love 4 square meters of concrete and three square meals of watery samp.
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South Africa's collapse under Cyril Ramaphosa
Under President Cyril Ramaphosa, the rand weakened tremendously, the country’s debt skyrocketed, and state-owned enterprises collapsed.
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