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- Sep 30, 2026
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OPINION | Are we actually listening to what the GBV Command Centre is telling us? (opens the original)
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In just 16 days 6,782 people called South Africa’s Gender-Based Violence Command Centre for help, an average of 424 calls every day. That number should stop us in our tracks, not simply because it represents another grim set of statistics in a country already drowning in GBV figures, but because behind every call is a person somewhere in South Africa who has reached the point of needing the state, or someone acting on its behalf, to intervene. On September 16 alone, the 24-hour centre received 5
OPINION | SRD grant recipients are surviving an economy that has failed them (opens the original)
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By Oliver Meth, Kemedi Kgaphola, Lauren Graham, Zoheb Khan Every time the government announces another extension of the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant, the debate quickly shifts away from the realities of poverty and back to an old accusation that refuses to disappear. We are told that young people have become dependent on social grants, that a monthly payment of R370 has created a generation that is content to wait for government support instead of seeking work, and that the grant is slo
OLIVER METH | 5 women dead in Kempton Park: Lesufi, where is the crime-fighting tech we were promised? (opens the original)
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Women are not safe. Not in their homes, not at places of worship, not at the post office and, apparently, not even on a f*cking jog. Elizabeth “Tsontso” Moselakgomo is dead. The 38-year-old woman who left her Kempton Park home for an afternoon run and never came back has now been positively identified by her family as the woman whose badly beaten body was found in Rhodesfield. Her 8-year-old daughter was the one who raised the alarm when her mother did not return. Five women found dead in the Ke
OLIVER METH | See what happens when your Mphuthis and Hasanes blow the whistle? Now for that bill (opens the original)
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Tumiso Mphuthi has lost her job. Esethu Hasane says he fears for his life. And now, just as these two whistleblower cases are forcing South Africans to look again at what happens to people who expose alleged wrongdoing inside government institutions, there is a new piece of legislation sitting on the table that could change the rules. The irony is difficult to miss: South Africa keeps telling people to blow the whistle, while the people who actually do it are left fighting for their jobs, their
OLIVER METH | Madlanga commission: what if the hitman wears a police uniform? (opens the original)
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South Africans have become accustomed to the language of organised crime. We know about hitmen, drug syndicates, protection rackets, tender mafias and criminal networks that settle disputes with bullets rather than lawyers. We know people can be killed because they stand in the way of a lucrative business, because they know too much, or simply because somebody has decided their continued existence is inconvenient. What we are less comfortable confronting is what happens when the person allegedly
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