SA adamant that kidnapping earlier this month was not terrorism linked
South Africa’s officially asking Britain to specify that the abduction this month of two UK passport holders in KwaZulu/Natal was not terrorism related. A statement by the Department of International Relations and Cooperation states the kidnapping has not been proved to be linked to terrorism. The orginal advice from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office following […]
Retired South African army officer sentenced to be hanged in South Sudan
A retired South African army officer who worked as a security advisor to former South Sudanese Deputy President Riek Machar has been sentenced to death by hanging in juba. William John Endley sentence today followed the death sentence passed last Monday on Sudanese rebel spokesman James Gatdet Dak. William Endley was arrested in August 2016 […]
How to measure the success of the fight against corruption
A common response has emerged to the depressing evidence of burgeoning corruption in South Africa: never again. New President Cyril Ramaphosa has been delphic in his response to the multitude of pointed fingers – not least because some of them are pointed at him. It would certainly be dangerously naive to blame it all on […]