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- 'Doctor of the people' sells kotas in spare time to pay for patients' surgeries A Burgersfort doctor has prescribed a unique remedy to help patients who cannot afford surgery – by selling kotas himself to help pay for them. Malema's cigarette blesser used accused torturer to target rivals, Khan's WhatsApps show Implicated in the deadly torture of Emmanuel Mbense, ex-reservist Wiandre Pretorius allegedly worked for Julius Malema’s cigarette benefactor, Carnilinx chief operating officer Mohammadh Sayed, “to target rivals in the illicit tobacco industry”.
- The cigarette conspiracy: Khan WhatsApps reveal how he and Malema 'protected' each other Crime Intelligence top cop Feroz Khan handed over the name and address of a VBS Mutual Bank curator who had laid criminal charges against EFF leader Julius Malema over corruption at the bank – and channelled parliamentary questions to Malema, which were aimed at bringing down an Inspector-General of Intelligence (IGI).
- Weekend invoices and a R30m legal bill: Did Limpopo's legislature help buy ANC delegates? A cluster of invoices generated over the weekend of the ANC’s Limpopo conference, and what appears to be a double payment to at least one legal firm, have raised serious questions about whether public money was used to buy delegate support for the legislature’s speaker.
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