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Small player: Magaqa’s family demands justice for Sindiso. Photo:  CrimeWatch_RSA/X

Fadiel Adams arrest a “sideshow”, says Sindiso Magaqa family

The family of slain ANC Youth League leader Sindiso Magaqa says the arrest of National Coloured Congress leader Fadiel Adams is a distraction from the real masterminds behind the…

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

Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. (SAPS/X)

Mkhwanazi warns Madlanga commission of ‘risk of total collapse’ in justice system

The KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner said his testimony will first deal with the disbanding of political killings task team in the province and then the influence of criminal…

Suspended deputy national police commissioner Shadrack Sibiya. (X)

Top cop Shadrack Sibiya suspended amid inquiry into disbanding of political killings task team

National police commissioner Fannie Masemola confirmed that internal investigations were under way into allegations against the deputy commissioner for crime detection

Suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu.

UPDATED: Mchunu denies ties to Matlala amid police tender scandal

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu says he has never met or spoken to Vusimuzi Matlala, despite allegations of political interference in a R360 million South African Police Service…

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has been placed on ‘special leave’. What does this mean in law?

Mchunu’s troubles deepen as party calls for probe into KZN task team shutdown

The African Transformation Movement claims the police minister sabotaged the team investigating political killings and protected politically connected suspects

KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi

Mchunu denies disbanding political killings task team to shield politicians

KZN Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has accused the minister of having ties to the criminal underworld

Salga’s new provincial chairperson, Xolani Dube

Amakhosi, councillors must get VIP protection, says new Salga KwaZulu-Natal chair Xolani Dube

A recent report noted that 213 people were assassinated in the last seven years, and of these 118 were in KwaZulu-Natal

KwaZulu-Natal premier Thami Ntuli.  Photo: Mbuso Kunene

18 KZN councillors killed since 2021

Data collected from KZN municipalities since November 2021 shows that out of 40 councillors who died, 18 were assassinated

The late uMngeni municipality Chief Whip, Nhlalayenza Ndlovu, who died on 5 December 2023.

Assassinated uMngeni DA councillor knew he was in danger

The municipality has offered a R100 000 reward for information that leads to the conviction of councillor Nhlalayenza Ndlovu’s killers

Police Minister Bheki Cele. (Michele Spatari/AFP)

Cele: Police secure 100 KZN political killing convictions

Investigations have revealed that hitmen are hiring top lawyers to defend themselves and that the biggest threat to political victims is from within their own parties

Mzimuni Ngiba

Jailed ANC councillor accused of killing predecessor is finally fired

Mzimuni Ngiba, however, was axed for missing council meetings, not because of the murder charge he is facing

Nokuthula Mabaso, centre, and other mourners from eKhenana attend the funeral of Ayanda Ngila at his family home in Mthalala village in Port St Johns, Eastern Cape. Photograph: Rogan Ward

The unseen massacre of Durban shack dwellers

Over the past 15 years, 24 leaders of Abahlali baseMjondolo, the largest independent social movement in South Africa, have been assassinated

Police take security measurements at the scene of a mass shooting in Soweto, South Africa, on July 10, 2022. Fourteen people have been killed in a mass shooting at a bar in Soweto township near Johannesburg, police said Sunday. (Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Uproar over Gauteng mass shootings while other areas suffer in relative silence

Cele’s swift action in Soweto has been sorely lacking in other townships plagued by gun violence for years

Undeterred: Whistleblower Thabiso Zulu sleeps in different locations every night to evade assassination.  (Rogan Ward)

Story of a whistleblower: ‘Baba, do you think you are about to die?

Whistleblower Thabiso Zulu can’t explain his situation to his son, but continues to expose wrongdoing and show solidarity with others

National Freedom Party members at the launch of the party’s 2014 election manifesto at Mehlareng Stadium in Tembisa, South Africa. The killing of a NFP candidate at Nongoma has sent the party’s candidates in KwaZulu-Natal into hiding in fear for their lives. (Photo by Gallo Images /Sowetan / Mohau Mofokeng)

Nongoma NFP candidate the latest victim of KwaZulu-Natal’s killing fields

National Freedom Party candidates in the Zululand town have gone into hiding amid fears that they will be targeted next

ANC Durban election candidate shot dead while on door-to-door campaign

One other man was shot dead and two others were rushed to hospital with gunshot wounds

Stolen dockets, tender corruption, unaccountable leadership and criminals rob South Africans of their dreams of a safe future. Photo: File

ANC council candidate stabbed to death outside party meeting

The brutal murder of an Eastern Cape ANC member puts political killings in the province, and in the country, into sharp focus just before the local government elections

Residents of several KwaZulu-Natal wards on Wednesday elected new councillors to replace representatives who had been assassinated in the ongoing political killings in the province. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Assassinations drive by-elections in KZN

Residents of several KwaZulu-Natal wards on Wednesday elected new councillors to replace representatives who had been assassinated in the ongoing political killings in the province