1/ Copper is the new “gold rush” in an expanding illicit economy shaped by vast organised crime networks & an expendable supply of foot soldiers willing to risk their lives to feed addictions to nyaope and tik, or to eke just enough for another meal. businesslive.co.za/fm/features/20… 2/ Since 2015, Transnet has recorded nearly 23,000 incidents of cable theft and the loss of 4,438km of cable. In the 2022/2023 financial year, the state-owned rail and port operator recorded 1,121 incidents of copper cable theft

The dossier that former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter says implicates top ANC Cabinet members in the looting of Eskom contains little more than wild, untested allegations compiled by a spook implicated in apartheid-era murders, writes @Jaqqs
news24.com/news24/investi… via @News24 News24 reports that the so-called Eskom "intelligence" files made famous by De Ruyter in this tell-all interview with @AnnikaLarsen1 in February were concocted by Tony Oosthuizen, a key member of an apartheid-era secret Military Intelligence unit

1/5 According to police, Charlene Mathews, widow of assassinated Mpumalanga crime boss Chief Clyde Mnisi was murdered shortly after 1am this morning by gunmen who invaded their Mkhuhlu home. She was shot twice in the head. Two other people were wounded. No arrests. 2/5 Her murder came just days after she buried her husband. Chief Clyde Mnisi was killed in a hit on 26 March by four gunmen armed with assault rifles after the car he was travelling in had a flat tyre on the Mpumalanga-Kruger Airport road. news24.com/news24/southaf…

1/ Five months ago, at 10am on 29 October 2022, Clyde Mnisi, was crowned a chief in a ceremony at the Mhlangana High school in Islington. Today, at the same time and at the same venue, a memorial is expected be held for the assassinated Mpumalanga crime boss. 2/ Mnisi was murdered on Sunday by balaclava-clad gunmen armed with assault rifles in what appears to have been a dispute over the division of spoils from a cash-in-transit heist: saps.gov.za/newsroom/msspe…

1/ Alleged Mpumalanga crime boss Clyde Mnisi, described as one of the “kingpins” in a “massive trafficking network of poached rhino horn” from @SANParksKNP, was shot dead early this morning. More on Mnisi in my recent @ENACT_Africa report enactafrica.org/research/resea… 2/ In what was described as a “glittering” coronation ceremony last October just west of Kruger National Park near Bushbuckridge, Mnisi became a chief: timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/o…

1/ At a recent anti-money laundering and financial crime conference I participated in, almost all the delegates - many of them working on illicit financial flows for major banks - believed SA would be greylisted. And the consequences are far-reaching... news24.com/fin24/companie… 2/ These include: higher transactional and admin costs for domestic banks, which will be passed on to consumers; restrictions on cross-border transactions, which will impact imports and exports leading to a decline in GDP; huge reputational damage to SA's financial system...

1/ Zama zamas are at the very bottom of an underworld economy extending far deeper than the abandoned mine shafts dotting the West Rand landscape. And its primary beneficiaries are South African scrap metal & gold dealers, refineries & exporters: dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-0… 2/ Police Minister Bheki Cele has promised “rolling action” in all four provinces affected by illegal mining. But it is difficult not to be cynical about these promises. Illegal gold mining has been on the rise for more than 20 years in South Africa.

This is big. Cape Town underworld figure Nafiz Modack arrested in connection with the murder of senior organized crime cop Charl Kinnear news24.com/news24/SouthAf… Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear was gunned down as he arrived home on 18 September 2020 assassination.globalinitiative.net/face/charl-kin… #FacesofAssassination #AssassinationWitness