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[Magalane waga Mogashoa @MagalaneWaga]

Resharing will hopefully bring her back

[Rolivhuwa 🫶🏾 @ReezaySA]

🚨 #BREAKINGNEWS | MISSING PERSON

Hey guys, we kindly need your assistance, bandla. 💔😭

Our sister has been missing since Saturday morning. She was last seen when she told the family she was going to a meeting, but she never returned.

At the time she went missing, she was wearing a white top and jeans and had natural hair.

🙏🏾 Please help us find her. If you have seen her or have any information about her whereabouts, please contact the family or the relevant police station.

Your repost could reach someone who knows where she is. Please share widely. 💔

📸 Photo: Supplied by family

#MissingPerson #MissingWoman #MissingPersonAlert #HelpFindHer #SouthAfrica #Gauteng #BreakingNews

[Don Lethula Treble Champion ☠️ @Don_Lethula]

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[SA Police Service 🇿🇦 @SAPoliceService]

RT #sapsFS [HELP THABONG POLICE FIND MISSING 17-YEAR-OLD SIBONGILE JUNUNDO] Thabong #SAPS is requesting assistance from the public to locate Sibongile Junundo (17) who went #missing in Thabong.

It is alleged that Sibongile left her home in Thabong on Saturday, 26/09 at about 18:00. She left her place of residence in the company of her friend. She has since not returned home. She was reported missing by her mother.

A missing person's file was registered for further investigation.

At the time of her disappearance Sibongile was reportedly wearing black denim jeans, a cream T-shirt and cream Puma sneakers.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Sibongile Junundo can contact Thabong police on 082 848 8120. #CrimeStop #MySAPSApp ME

[SABC News @SABCNews]

MADLANGA COMMISSION | Evidence leader Adv Chaskalson is reading evidence alleging links between Oupa "Bafana" Sindane, Joe Sibanyoni and individuals implicated in multiple murder cases.

[Pule Letshwiti-Jones @pule_jones]

BREAKING:

Madlanga Commission secretary Dr Nolitha Vukuza is to lay criminal charges against Major General Firoz Khan for failing to appear virtually before the commission and ignoring a subpoena.

Madlanga says he takes a dim view of Khan not testifying and that his lawyers are associated with the move; he says Khan’s non-attendance today is a flagrant disregard of this commission.

Madlanga says it is concerning that Valley has associated himself with the disregarding of subpoenas.

#MadlangaCommision
@eNCA

[Pule Letshwiti-Jones @pule_jones]

BREAKING:

Bafana Sindanes urgent application struck off roll.

@eNCA

[Pule Letshwiti-Jones @pule_jones]

FRESH LEADS:

Sources close to Bafana "King of the Sky" Sindane tell eNCA that all indications point to him appearing today before the Madlanga Commission. Sindane was apparently prepared thoroughly last night and may request an interpreter to assist when he makes his appearance.

His camp, however, has still expressed disappointment with the manner in which WhatsApp messages were extracted from his phone by the Mpumalanga Organized Crime Unit and may now be used by the commission.

eNCA also understands Sindane intends to beef up his legal team and rope in Adv Muzi Sikhakhane when cross-examined.

@eNCA
#MadlangaCommision

[JvL 🇿🇦 @JvanLogg]

When we think of copper theft, we tend to picture a crook in the dark, hacking away at a cable. It isn't just that. Not anymore. It is far more complex.

Syndicates have systematically been stripping Eskom, Transnet, PRASA, Telkom, and our municipalities, and then washing that metal right through local scrapyards and export channels.

Scams:

1. Cut the lines, burn the sheaths in the veld to destroy the evidence, and sell it into the system as legitimate "scrap."
2. Pack the stolen scrap into containers and misdeclare it at the ports as raw/unrefined copper, or even non-metallic goods to bypass export controls.
3. Smuggle Copperbelt slabs in, file off the serial numbers, and blend them with stolen local scrap for export.

The numbers are staggering. In 2022, the DTCI and TIPS estimated that we trade about 150,000 tonnes of copper scrap a year, worth over R10 billion. Roughly two-thirds of that is smuggled, stolen, or mislabelled.

Cape Town’s anti copper theft unit (Copperheads) put utility insider involvement at around 25%.

The economic damage is devastating. Genesis/DTCI calculates over R45 billion in annual economic damage.

In 2021 alone, four of our major SOEs took a R7 billion direct hit, with associated impacts up to R187 billion.

Your local municipality is bleeding, too. City Power logged 2,000 incidents in 2022/23, spending R380 million to replace cable in just 8 months. eThekwini is losing about R120 million a year (averaging 80 cases a month).

SAPS had a dedicated, specialised cable theft unit until 2000. Late, corruption-convicted commissioner Jackie Selebi shut down specialist units in SAPS. Syndicates formed and became more brazen.

When global commodity prices surged, opportunities came for crooks.

2002–2005: Paulos Moyana’s Free State syndicate cut Eskom 88 kV lines. We saw 24 convictions in Kroonstad - the first real long-term sentences for cable theft.

2007–2012: Telkom lost R195.5m in 2007.

As prices rose, Eskom attacks jumped from 446 in 2005 to 1,914 by 2008.

By 2010/11, annual cable replacement costs hit R38.6m for Eskom (up from R27m) and R96.5m for Transnet (up from R18.4m).

2012: The Matsetela Syndicate entered the scene, stealing cable and washing R15m through SA Metals in 241 deals.

The State Capture period poured petrol on the fire. It systematically hollowed out our law enforcement and revenue service. It compromised internal security and integrity controls at Eskom, Transnet, and PRASA, rolling out the red carpet for syndicates. At the same time, physical and documentary controls at borders and major ports collapsed.

The Hawks finally closed the net for the Matsilela group in 2017. The kingpin got 12 years in Kroonstad, 18 years in Bloemfontein, and an effective 18 years in the Western Cape in 2023. Co-accused got 8–20 years.

Between 2020 and 2023, copper prices doubled, and the grid was hammered.

Look at Transnet’s stolen cable lengths: 395 km (2019/20); 700 km (2020/21); 1,500 km (2021/22); 1,121 km (2022/23). That is 4,633 km of stolen cable in under four years.

SARS reconstituted its enforcement capacity in 2019.

In 2019, Angelo Solimene pleaded guilty (R500k fine) after Durban container busts.

In 2022, Joseph Hurling was convicted when containers declared as "polymers" were found packed with compressed scrap.

By 2022, Cabinet had to impose a temporary 6-month copper-scrap export ban to stop the bleeding.

With the collaboration between government and the private sector, we are starting to see indications of shifts. Transnet's stolen line length dropped from 180 km in 2024 to 59 km in 2025 - though 2024/25 still logs R1.59 billion in security losses.

In June 2026, SAPS and BMA seized R12.68 million in copper at City Deep after 121 tons crossed Beitbridge.

In Sept 2026, a dealer was sentenced to 10 years in De Aar. A few days later, the Hawks arrested 6 suspects targeting a National Key Point in Plattekloof.

There’s a long way ahead.

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

The man who invented the operation that saves babies born with blue-baby syndrome had no medical degree, no college degree, and was listed on the payroll as a JANITOR.

He guided the first operation from a stool behind the surgeon's shoulder, telling him where to cut.

Vivien Thomas. He had been saving to study medicine when the 1929 crash wiped out his savings and the bank holding them.

He took a job as a lab assistant at Vanderbilt for a janitor's wage, because that was the classification available.

Within a couple of years he was running experimental surgery — developing techniques, performing operations on his own, training surgeons.

He moved to Johns Hopkins with Alfred Blalock in 1941, where he was still paid as a janitor and had to enter through a back door.

He was the only Black man in that building not carrying a mop.

He worked out the surgical fix for tetralogy of Fallot — the condition killing infants who turned blue and died — and built the instruments for it.

The first operation on a child was in 1944. Blalock, who had never done the procedure, asked Thomas to stand behind him and talk him through it.

The surgeons on the paper became world famous. Thomas was not credited.

Hopkins hung his portrait in 1971 and gave him an honorary doctorate in 1976. Generations of surgeons he personally trained insisted on it.

He was paid as a cleaner while inventing heart surgery.

[ChrisExcel @ChrisExcel102]

Pitsoyagae Gabriel Matebesi, CEO of PP Gemstones Mining and Export Pty Ltd, says he legally obtained a licence to mine Sugilite gemstones, but police and SARS confiscated his stones. Police have since issued a statement releasing the gems, but Matebesi says SARS has not released them to the rightful owner and is asking the Madlanga Commission to investigate and help recover his gemstones.

[BusinessTech @BusinessTechSA]

South Africans earning the average formal salary in South Africa effectively pay the same tax rate as the top 1% of income earners in Germany and other top European countries.
https://t.co/5GbDdl3gLZ

[JvL 🇿🇦 @JvanLogg]

Alfred Matsitela - also identified in court and law enforcement records as Malome Alfred Matsetela - operated one of South Africa's most damaging copper theft syndicates through his Germiston-based business, Malvern Scrap Metal. Little is publicly known of his background other than he matriculated and held a diploma in business management.

His highly organised enterprise specifically targeted essential infrastructure owned by Telkom, Eskom, and Transnet across multiple provinces, causing millions of rands in economic damage.

To execute the operations, the syndicate utilised rented vehicles to steal overhead copper cables, operating primarily at night in secluded locations.

Once cut, the copper was transported to Malvern Scrap Metal, where Matsitela paid his primary operatives with cash or company cheques. He then transported the stolen material to larger industrial buyers, notably SA Metals in Bedfordview, where it was sold into the legitimate supply chain.

2012 – 2017: The syndicate operated across a vast geographic footprint - Prince Albert, Kenhardt, Port Nolloth, Brakpan, Bedfordview, Primrose, Williston, Senekal, Ficksburg, Marquard, and Glen. Transnet investigators also linked the syndicate to copper theft in the Free State.

Following extensive investigations into the enterprise, Matsitela and his accomplices were arrested by the Hawks in George.

He received his first known conviction when the Free State High Court in Kroonstad sentenced him to 12 years in prison for copper theft offenses committed between 2014 and 2015. 

For offenses committed between January 2014 and September 2016 the Free State High Court in Bloemfontein convicted Matsitela of managing the activities of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering, alongside theft and destroying essential infrastructure. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

April 2023: Matsitela and four accomplices - Amos Ngubeni, Samuel Ngwenya, Linda James Malope, and Wilson Khoza - were sentenced in the George Regional Court for their nationwide copper theft, money laundering, and racketeering operations.

Matsitela received individual sentences totaling 83 years: 17 years for managing a racketeering enterprise, 10 years for participating in it, 46 years across seven counts of theft, and 10 years for money laundering. The court ordered all these counts to run concurrently with the 17-year racketeering term, and further ordered that the sentence run concurrently with his existing 18-year sentence from October 2018.

[Powerhouse @SEO30JJ]

PLEASE HELP FIND OUPA KENNETH MALOPE

Oupa Kenneth Malope, born 30 March 1995, from Soshanguve, has been missing since 2 July 2019.

His brother, Kagiso Sylvester, has spent years searching for him and continues to hold onto hope. He has reportedly received information that Oupa may have been seen in Ngodini, Mpumalanga.

If you have seen Oupa, recognise him, or have any information that could help locate him, please contact Kagiso on 074 516 2345.

Kagiso needs his brother more than anything. After all these years, he is still searching for him and hoping to bring him home. Please share this appeal, someone may have the information that can reunite them.

[I AM SOUTH AFRICAN @lEsethuHasane]

The later analysis of my Suspension has been very bewildering to me: amongst other charges is that I reported corruption to the Hawks ( DPCI ).

Why would an employer make grounds for dismissal because you reported corruption ?

It is the wildest thing from this tomfoolery , and the letter documents further worse reasoning that will not stand any independent neutral process.

[Selby Bokaba @Selbybok]

Some South Africans are generally not law abiding citizens and tend to blame EVERYTHING on the police.
They assault their spouses in the privacy of their homes and apportion blame on the police. They go to pubs, parties, get-togethers, etc, and butcher one another and blame the police.
When do we, as society, take responsibility for our own actions? Cops aren’t blameless, but sometimes it’s unfair to blame them for our criminality.
In Japan, for instance, pedestrians respect traffic lights. They know when to cross a street. In Scandinavian countries, citizens generally obey the law.
One day, the late national police commissioner Jacob (Jackie) Sello Selebi walked into my office and informed me that he won’t take his stretched police officials who are fighting violent crime to deploy them to go and ‘police’ smokers. This was after the then Health Minister Dr Nkosana Dlamini-Zuma had promulgated a law banning public smoking. An avid reader of books and accomplished diplomat, Selebi said parliament was passing legislation as though they were legislating for other countries. He said public smoking legislation would work better in Geneva, Switzerland, where he had served as an Ambassador to the United Nations, than in South Africa.
He said the main cause of road fatalities in 🇿🇦 was drunk driving and yet on the N1 north and Ben Schoeman Highway (linking Jozi & Pretoria) there were establishments along the freeway that sold booze to motorists who pulled over for a dop and hopped back into their cars and proceeded to drive. He questioned how would we reduce road fatalities when we allowed motorists to pull over and drink booze?
The man was a teetotaller. Yes, you can criticise him for his fall from grace, correctly so, but he made perfect sense about our legislators back then. I don’t want to talk about our current legislators. Just look at the work of the #AdHocCommittee and you’d realise gore sisekakeni.

[Abahambe Majola🇿🇦🇷🇺 @LadyAbahambe]

🚨R37.9M GHOST LEAVE: Former Enoch Mgijima Accounting Officer Appointed to Chris Hani District Weeks After Auditor-General South Africa Flags No Leave System

Komani then asks, who accounts for the R37.9 Million unverified leave?

Chris Hani District Municipality council has resolved to appoint former Enoch Mgijima accounting officer Ayakha Veronica Ntengenyane as Director of Health and Community Services from 1 October 2026.

The appointment comes months after the Auditor-General flagged Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality for having no system to monitor leave, leaving R37.9M employee leave liability that could not be verified.

Why Accounting Officer matters: Under MFMA Sec 62, the Accounting Officer is the head of administration - must ensure effective, efficient internal controls and that AFS fairly present financial position. Leave is financial liability. No leave system = failure of controls under AO. Auditor-General finding goes straight to AO's desk, not junior clerk.

Ntengenyane served as Accounting Officer's during period covered by Auditor-General findings. The MM resigned suddenly on 28 February 2026.

Questions Komani is asking:
1. Who will account for the R37.9M Ghost Leave now that leadership has moved?
2. If AO moves to District, who now signs off on correcting R37.9M Ghost Leave at Local?
3. Has Enoch Mgijima instituted a leave management system as recommended by AG?

This is not about a person, it's about a R37.9 Million Leave system.
By:#JanVanRiebeek

[Special Investigating Unit (SIU) @RSASIU]

#SIUWorkingForYou| SIU SECURES R42.4 MILLION IN CASH AND ASSETS LINKED TO BRIBES PAID TO TEMBISA HOSPITAL OFFICIALS

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has secured approximately R42.4 million in cash, properties, pensions and investments linked to the R100 million in bribes allegedly paid by businessman Stefan Joel Govindraju to officials at Tembisa Hospital to secure procurement deals worth approximately R600 million.

[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.