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[Jackie Phamotse @JackiePhamotse]

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE CITIZENS OF SOUTH AFRICA

Beloved,

I wrote The Big Five Cartel because silence was no longer an option. You can see where we are today. I have spent too much time away from you, studying them , men and women. I watched, I questioned and I wrote.

What did they think would happen? How do you silence a writer? We can never fight what’s already written. There are book we all fear to write and yet there is this ONE!
Also because my therapist said “journaling helps” and I took it a bit too literally.

For years I’ve been called “controversial,” “too loud,” “too much.”
Translation: I speak in a room full of whispers and apparently that’s a crime. We all have slept with the enemy, we have eaten with cowards and we lost ourselves in love. That all ends when I step into the writing room, everyone is enemy.

I’ve been dragged through courts, spent two years under house arrest, and lost friendships, brand deals, and a few good nights of sleep. We all pay a price for what we have been chosen to become.

People told me: “Jackie, stop writing. Stop talking. Stop naming what everyone sees but no one says out loud at the braai.” Well, the truth dies when we all cower.

But I kept taking notes. With receipts.

Being a vocal minority is exhausting, however someone has to carry the weight.
It’s tweeting the truth at 2am and waking up to 3000 comments, 2 lawsuits, and 1 aunty asking “but why must you always?” It’s the months of research, not reading things online, literally finding the information that’s in this book!
It’s being told “you’re causing division” for pointing at the division that was already there.
It’s doors closing, publishers hesitating, and people suddenly forgetting your number — until they want to know if they are in the book.

The sacrifice was real. Goodness I have fought so hard, you saw it!
There were threats. Headlines that tried to turn me from an author into a scandal. Nights I asked myself: “Is documenting our own stories worth it?”

Yes. Because someone has to say it first so that others can say it louder later.

I wrote this book because South Africa deserves the truth, even when it’s ugly. Especially when it’s ugly.
The Big Five Cartel is about the systems, the networks, and the “no honour amongst thieves” culture that keeps ordinary people trapped while a few eat in the dark. It’s about power without accountability. About not letting them win, brokers, cartels; and the cost paid by women, men, and kids who never asked to be part of it.

This book will make people uncomfortable. Good. Comfort has kept us stuck.
It will be called defamatory, sensational, dangerous. But what’s truly dangerous is pretending.

I am not a hero. I’m just a daughter of this country who decided to document instead of disappear. And maybe crack a joke or two while doing it, because if we don’t laugh we’ll cry.

“The Commission is only the start.” There’s more to tell. So, we shall stand up and say what they can’t. There is more to unmask. More to fight for.

To those who pushed back: thank you. You proved why the book needed to be written.
To those who stood with me: thank you. You reminded me why I kept going.
To you, the reader: read it with an open mind and an open heart. Argue with it. Feel it. Share it as far as possible. But don’t ignore it. We can’t just talk, someone has to document it.

South Africa, we cannot be silenced. Not by courts, not by fear, not by power.
And definitely not by group chats or should we say Cartel’s?

With courage, love, and a little bit of mischief,
J.P

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She was last seen wearing a pink tracksuit top, grey jeans and black boots.

Anyone with information should contact Warrant Officer Ngomani on 072 731 4106, call Crime Stop on 08600 10111 or use the MySAPS mobile app.

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[iScathulo SePhara 👞 @ISephara]

2 year old toddler Omphile Sethole, was abducted from her bed while sleeping by someone who broke into her family's home in Tinmyne, Limpopo

The kidnappers broke in but didn't take any valuable objects, they only took the child

Today is the 3rd day she is missing.
Mzansi, please help us find her
🇿🇦🙏🏽✨️

[يارا @RA4rrnh]

For 12 years, I was married to a conventionally “nice guy.”
He never hit me. Never cheated (or at least I didn’t know and we never had infidelity issues), he never even argued much.
He was calm. Quiet. Agreeable.
In the beginning I thought that meant I was safe, and I felt lucky to have him.
Because other women had worse right?
But this is exactly why the marriage eventually failed…His “good guy” image meant he never led.
He never decided.
He never carried weight.
So I did. I had to step in and keep the boat rowing and afloat.
Financially. Emotionally. Strategically.
And eventually I was left tired, exhausted and resentful.
Because “nice” without initiative is passivity.
And passivity turns a wife into infrastructure.
I wasn’t married to a monster.
I was married to a passenger.
And I had to step off that car that was leading me to oblivion.

[Yusuf Abramjee @Abramjee]

Tinmyne Police in Limpopo have launched a major search operation after a 2-year-old girl, Omphile Sethole, was allegedly kidnapped from her home in Ga-Mabuela village during the early hours of Saturday, 02 May 2026.

According to police, the child’s 52-year-old grandmother woke up at around 02:00 to go to the bathroom and took Omphile with her before returning to bed.

When she woke again at approximately 06:00, the toddler was missing and a window in the room had been found open.

Family members and neighbours immediately searched the surrounding area but were unable to find the child, prompting them to alert police.

Cases of housebreaking and kidnapping have since been opened, while officers continue searching for both the missing toddler and the unknown suspect.

At the time of her disappearance, Omphile was wearing a pink jersey and black tights.

Limpopo Provincial Commissioner Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe said all available resources had been mobilised to locate the child and bring her home safely.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Omphile Sethole or the suspect is urged to contact Sergeant Moshe Mashaba on 082 319 9448, Crime Stop on 08600 10111, the nearest police station or use the MySAPS App.

[Mark 15:35 @TinaZinhle]

UPON GETTING MARRIED, a WOMAN must live better than she lived alone.

NEVER WORSE.