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Open Secrets exposes a military squad allegedly responsible for acts of torture and murder. The evidence implicates at least four units of the SANDF in crimes dating back to 2019. They are the elite Special Forces Brigade, the Military Police, Defence Intelligence and Defence Legal Services.
Open Secrets has implicated SANDF’s four units in alleged acts of torture and murders dating back to 2019. The organisation says it has it on good authority that the implicated SANDF members are stealing weapons and are using them to commit crime
Open Secrets exposes a military squad allegedly responsible for acts of torture and murder. The evidence implicates at least four units of the SANDF in crimes dating back to 2019.
Open Secrets stands with the Palestinian people. We call for an immediate ceasefire by the Israeli occupation forces and an end to Israeli apartheid.
South African Police Service Colonel Frans Mathipa was shot in the head and killed by unknown assassins on Sunday, 6 August 2023. Were SANDF Special Forces soldiers the skilled shooters who murdered a seasoned investigator in the Hawks’ Crimes Against the State Unit? If they were, could this explain a court application by the SANDF days before his assassination intended to stymie Mathipa’s investigation into the SANDF’s role in two abductions and potentially other crimes? Open Secrets investigates.
Open Secrets and the Campaign for Free Expression lodged an information application with the Office of the President asking for the final report (and additional relevant information) on the docking of the Lady R Russian cargo vessel during December 2022.
SAfm Sunrise
Political parties in Parliament have expressed mixed reactions following the outcome of the Lady R vessel probe. On Sunday night, President Cyril Ramaphosa told the nation there’s no evidence that South Africa sold weapons to Russia.
SABC News The mystery surrounding the death of respected Hawks detective Lieutenant Colonel Frans Mathipa deepens. He was killed in a an apparent ambush at the Hammanskraal exit after what would have been a meeting with suspects in a matter he was investigating. Reports suggest that he was probing the kidnapping of Abdella Abadiga a…