Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
assassinationslatest news & developments

The brilliance of Iran’s governance structure

The sheer brilliance of Iran’s three-tiered governance structure

Denial: The suspended police minister, Senzo Mchunu (above), has described the allegations by KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi against him as ‘wild’. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Mkhwanazi: Political killing task team disbanded when closing in on Gauteng syndicates

The KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner said his testimony would deal with political interference by parliamentarians and the national executive

Suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu.

Mkhwanazi: Mchunu not briefed before disbanding political killing task team

The KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner said the order to disband the team was irrational and irregular

Political mafias and ‘business’ became common, for example municipal contracts between former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede and the Delangokubona Business Forum. Photo: File

Political gangsterism is a clear and present danger

In collaboration with crooks, political mafias have emerged in which private fortunes are being built on plundered public wealth

Gustavo Petro speaks at an event after the 2022 Congressional elections in Colombia, on March 13, 2022. (Photo by: Sebastian Barros/Long Visual Press/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Colombian left ascends to power by uniting progressive forces

The fourth instalment on lessons for the left shows how the Colombian left built a successful electoral project in face of brutal opposition from entrenched elites backed by US…

Place of mourning: The home where environmental activist Fikile Ntshangase was killed while children played outside. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Record number of land and environmental defenders killed globally in 2020

In South Africa, environmental activist Fikile Ntshangase and police detective Leroy Bruwer were killed

Governments across sub-Saharan Africa violently pursue exiles abroad. Democracies must push back. (John McCann/M&G)

The Africans in exile who live in fear of transnational repression

Governments across sub-Saharan Africa violently pursue exiles abroad. Democracies must push back

Violence flared on Saturday afternoon in Amhara, one of nine autonomous regions, when a “hit squad” attacked a meeting of top officials, Abiy’s office said Sunday. (AMISOM)

Ethiopia army chief, local officials killed amid regional ‘coup’ bid

Violence flared on Saturday afternoon in Amhara, one of nine autonomous regions, when a ‘hit squad’ attacked a meeting of top officials

Morsi’s supporters are under no illusions about what or who killed him. (AFP)

The slow-motion assassination of Mohamed Morsi

Morsi was often kept in solitary confinement, while struggling with both diabetes and high blood pressure

Gregory Kamwendo was gunned down after receiving a death threat for testifying in a CCMA case last year. He also helped to uncover qualification fraud at the university. (Thorsten Ochs)

Deadly twist to university dispute

A former colleague has been charged with the murder of an arts dean after threatening him

Tsafendas avoided the death penalty but was detained on death row until 1994 when he was moved to a mental institution. (Die Burger/Media24)

Verwoerd’s assassin a complex ‘hero’

Dimitri Tsafendas, the man who killed the architect of apartheid, was an enigmatic ‘revolutionary’ with a ‘deep social conscience’

Janusz Walus during a Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing. (Reuters)

Hani killer expected to apply for parole, again

Janusz Walus is expected to return to the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday morning to once again apply for parole

‘When the izinkabi need money

Taxi wars help to make KZN South Africa’s ‘hit’ capital

A report released this week exposed a growing crisis of contract killings in the country, and in the taxi industry in particular

Sindiso Magaqa’s murder is one of more than 80 others in KwaZulu-Natal over the past three years

Politicians stifle murder investigations

A look into the web of killings in KwaZulu-Natal reveals hitmen, security firms and political players

‘I know

ANC killings were ‘hits by a party faction’

Leaders were assassinated in a takeover plot, the SACP has told the KwaZulu-Natal inquiry

A photo taken on April 14, 2017 shows a South African Police Services van seen through the window of the ambulance driving in the gang-ridden suburb of Manenberg in Cape Town.

Hitmen, mafia and control – SA’s underbelly

Violence in the country is a product of people’s circumstances, so many say. But is it really?

Special police task force to probe political killings, says police minister

While the death toll for politicians is increasing ahead of the local government elections, Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko pledges to intervene.

The assassination surge on those fighting corruption

Political assassinations in South Africa have become a feature sustained by corruption, infighting and the "ruling party’s hegemony".

Lee Harvey Oswald: More questions than answers. (AP)

JFK: A conspiracy of echoes

Theories about the death of John F Kennedy are in overdrive as the 50th ?anniversary of his death approaches — even John Kerry is weighing in.

Israel says no proof it carried out Dubai killing

Israel says no proof it carried out Dubai killing

Israel said on Wednesday the use foreign-born Israeli identities by a hit squad suspected of killing a Hamas militant did not prove Mossad did it.