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- Cat, coke and corruption: Top cop Shibiri axed, others to follow over Madlanga evidence Major General Richard Shibiri is the first high-profile police officer to be fired following evidence before the Madlanga Commission linking him to alleged criminal figures and police corruption.
- Ex-Blue Bulls doctor detained after China trip amid crackdown on slimming injections Dr Tommie Smook and his partner, Suzé Steyl, were detained overnight at OR Tambo Airport after returning from China, with officials confiscating their devices amid an expanding probe into compounded weight-loss injections.
- Friends rally to help family of Stellenbosch student found dead on campus Resilient, compassionate and driven are the words used to describe a 22-year-old Stellenbosch University (SU) student, who was found dead at the weekend.
- Hawks officer Karl Sander turns stolen coffee machine saga into R500k anti-drug fund The coffee machine that broke the internet is still missing, but two narcotics dogs pledged by a specialised breeder in its wake – along with the more than half a million rand raised in its name – are set to strengthen South Africa’s fight against drugs on the ground.
- Public Works minister's advisor in undue interference row over state leases A special advisor in the office of Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson stands accused by a senior government official of unlawfully reaching into the operational heart of the department – issuing instructions to withdraw advertised bids, directing procurement strategies, and steering the outcome of state property deals worth millions.
- The bulletproof R5m BMW and the luxury flat: How Numsa boss funds his lifestyle Trade union boss Irvin Jim enjoys the use of a R5 million specially manufactured armoured BMW and lives in a luxurious executive apartment in Melrose Arch, all paid for by entities with alleged links to an American billionaire.
- Playboy businessman Ze Nxumalo bankrolled Mashazi's R3.5m private jet for London jaunt Businessman and taxi industry power broker Ze Nxumalo bankrolled Imogen Mashazi’s R3.5-million private jet for a three-day London shopping jaunt.
- How a Boer and a Zulu built one of South Africa's most distinctive wine brands Twenty-two years after launching MR de Compostella, Bruwer Raats and Mzokhona Mvemve’s partnership has become one of South African wine’s most enduring success stories.
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- Top exec fired from Dutch job over far-right student days in apartheid SA A South African-born environmentalist has been fired after one day as sustainability chief at Tata Steel Netherlands, after Dutch media found him to have been involved in a right-wing student group in South Africa.
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