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It is widely expected that violence will surge during the festive season, as recent arrests and assassinations have created an underworld void that rival gangsters will battle each other to fill.

Ralph Stanfield appeared in the Cape Town Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 9 October, along with his wife, Nicole Johnson, and three co-accused: Denver Booysen, Johannes Abrahams and Jose Brandt.

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The docking of cruise ship Vasco da Gama in Cape Town is not a re-enactment of the Portuguese colonialist’s 1497 arrival, but the opening of the cruise liner tourism season on 2 November.

National police commissioner Fannie Masemola and Police Minister Bheki Cele were among the many cops present in a Cape Town court when alleged 28s gang boss Ralph Stanfield, his wife Nicole Johnson and two others appeared there on various charges.

Daily Maverick spoke to experts who explained what happened and why it may happen again.

South African Police Service Colonel Frans Mathipa was shot in the head and killed by unknown assassins on Sunday, 6 August 2023. Were SANDF Special Forces soldiers the skilled shooters who murdered a seasoned investigator in the Hawks’ Crimes Against the State Unit? If they were, could this ex...

In another tussle involving the law and EFF leader Julius Malema plays out in court, he is, as always, deliberate in his determination to be above the law.

Rather than clarifying details of the mysterious circumstances surrounding the docking of the Russian cargo vessel, the executive summary of the Lady R report leaves many thinking whatever was going on was unlikely to have been above board.

This article is a call to erstwhile UDF comrades to take up the urgent struggle against contemporary despair and injustice in all its forms.