Four years. More than R1-billion spent. The Zondo Commission exposed corruption. 8 months in, the Madlanga Commission is making headlines for a different reason. Two of South Africa's biggest corruption scandals. But how do they compare...
Putting aside the sharp edges that once reached for the sky, it's time to look inward and face every shift in emotion.
This journey goes back to where it all began โ through change, growth, and transformation.
Breaking free from expectations and stepping into a space of his own.
Walking across the rough terrain of the inner self.
No perfection. No disguise. No walls.
@layzhang opens a crack in the myth,
standing tall through honesty,
finding his true self through reflection,
and holding the Flawed Crown.
Listen to who he is right now.
His role may change, but the heart remains the same.
2026 New Album- "Flawed Crown" Global Listening Event
Presale starts on June 10 at 13:14 ๐
See you in Kuala Lumpur on June 27!
And the next city is up to you ๐๐ป
Shenzhen โข Shanghai โข Haikou โข Hong Kong, China โข Macao, China โข More cities to be unlocked...
#LAY #LayZhang
She has complications from long COVID and is in heart failure. He has cancer, and they can only afford to treat one. In the richest country in the world, no one should ever have to choose between their own survival and their spouseโs.
Thanks to @SenatorHick for the video.
She has complications from long COVID and is in heart failure. He has cancer, and they can only afford to treat one. In the richest country in the world, no one should ever have to choose between their own survival and their spouseโs.
Thanks to @SenatorHick for the video.
The FBI had boxes full of serial killer confessions they couldnโt actually use.
Hours of interviews.
Detailed admissions.
Direct conversations with some of the most violent men in America.
And none of it was scientifically useful.
Then a 42-year-old psychiatric nurse walked into Quantico and changed criminal investigation forever.
Her name was Ann Burgess.
1975.
FBI agents Robert Ressler and John Douglas had spent months traveling across the country interviewing imprisoned serial killers. They believed understanding offenders could help solve future crimes.
But when Ann Burgess listened to the tapes, she immediately saw the problem.
โThis isnโt research,โ she told them.
โThese are just stories.โ
The room went silent.
โYouโre asking them to talk about themselves,โ she said. โBut every interview is different. Thereโs no structure. No methodology. You canโt compare one offender to another.โ
Then she asked a question nobody else in the room had thought to ask:
โTell me about the women they killed.โ
Not the killers.
The victims.
Who were they?
How old were they?
Where were they approached?
What made them vulnerable?
How did the offender gain control?
The agents were confused.
Ann Burgess explained something revolutionary:
โIf you truly study the victims, youโll understand the offender.โ
At the time, Burgess was already a groundbreaking trauma researcher. In 1974, she had co-authored one of the first major studies proving rape caused lasting psychological trauma โ at a time when courts barely acknowledged it.
She helped create the term โrape trauma syndrome.โ
Now she brought that same scientific rigor to the FBI.
She redesigned the interviews.
Created structured questionnaires.
Introduced victimology as the foundation of profiling.
Distinguished between a killerโs โMOโ and their โsignature.โ
Mapped escalation patterns.
Explained that sexual violence was about power and control โ not desire.
Suddenly, the FBIโs Behavioral Science Unit had something it had never truly possessed before:
Methodology.
And it worked.
In 1983, young boys began disappearing in Nebraska.
Using Burgessโs framework, investigators built a profile:
A young white male.
Slight build.
Someone trusted around children.
Likely connected to scouting or youth activities.
A person who kept souvenirs and detective magazines.
Police arrested John Joubert.
The profile was astonishingly accurate.
Almost overnight, criminal profiling became legitimate law enforcement science.
And yet most of the credit went elsewhere.
The public celebrated the FBI agents.
Books were written.
Movies and television series followed.
Ann Burgess became a footnote.
When Netflix released Mindhunter, they based a character on her โ but changed nearly everything.
They made her a psychologist instead of a nurse.
Changed her personal life entirely.
Most viewers never even realized she was based on a real person.
Meanwhile, the real Ann Burgess kept working.
Teaching.
Publishing.
Consulting.
Testifying in court.
Training professionals around the world.
More than 150 academic publications.
Multiple landmark books.
Decades of pioneering work.
And through all of it, one truth remained:
Modern criminal profiling exists in large part because a psychiatric nurse walked into a room full of FBI agents and told them they were asking the wrong questions.
Not:
โWhy did the killer do this?โ
But:
โWho were the victims?โ
That shift changed criminal investigation forever.
Ann Burgess is 88 years old now.
Still teaching.
Still working.
Still brilliant.
And finally receiving recognition not as a side character in someone elseโs story โ
But as herself.
The woman who taught the FBI how to truly understand predators by first understanding the people they harmed.
A journey that took two players across the globe ๐ฟ๐ฆ
Chicago Fire FC and @BlackArrowFC present: ๐๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ด๐ฆ: ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ง๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ.
#cf97
South Africans just dropped over R100K for Oom Kaarl Sanders in one day. This proves it: the real line isnโt race, itโs patriotism. Oom Kaarl, our hero abused by thugs for years, is finally getting the respect he deserves. Proudly South African. Letโs keep showing up for our own. ๐ฟ๐ฆโค๏ธ
#ThankYouOomKaarl
Colonel Jacob was confronted with a DPCI presentation (CJC 242) listing "major heroin and cocaine seizures" from 2020 to October 2025. The document showed that before his 22 June 2021 seizure, only approximately 61kg of drugs were held in Durban police stationsโnot the hundreds of kilograms he claimed were occupying storage space. Jacob did not find his February 2020 (547kg mandrax) or September 2020 (approx 1 ton precursor chemicals) seizures listed in the document. He called the presentation "misleading" and "incorrect," claiming it was "not sanctioned by my office" and "not an official document." The Commission sought to prove there was storage capacity in Durban for the 541kg of cocaineโJacob did not have to send it to Port Shepstone. Jacob conceded that the document showed Maiden Wharf accepted 999kg of cocaine in July 2021, further undermining his claim of no storage space. #MadlangaCommission
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Sergeant Mandla Khuzwayo is being laid to rest this morning.
A funeral service is currently underway in KwaMashu.
Khuzwayo - a crime intelligence member - was shot and critically wounded during an ambush in April.
He passed away almost a week ago.
The police officer, who joined the SAPS in 2009, leaves behind his wife and two children.
His colleague, Captain Louis Nel, died at the scene and was laid to rest earlier this month.
@eNCA
โWe don't have to all agree, we don't have to be friends we don't have to like each other but we all have a responsibility to serve the interest of South Africas so this country doesn't need heroes but it needs principled peopleโ General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi
โif South Africa is serious about the national reset then the reset must include all of us. it must start with politicians, they drive fancy cars these days they live like business peopleโ General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi