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Last week, Open Secrets made claims it uncovered acts of torture, kidnapping and murders that were allegedly carried out by SANDF members dating back to 2019.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has since submitted a Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) application to the SANDF.

The chief of the South African National Defence Force, Gen Rudzani Maphwanya, has denied the existence of a “so-called torture squad” in the SANDF.

Republican infighting over Montana’s U.S. Senate race boiled over Wednesday as a powerful super PAC managed by Montana Sen. Steve Daines accused U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale of being a Democratic plant.

SANDF accused of abducting and torturing suspects in their investigations over missing rifles from an army base in Pretoria back 2019

Reading a one-page prepared statement, Maphwanya said the SANDF had noted the media reports making “alarming allegations about the existence of the so-called South African National Defence Force death squad, responsible for acts of kidnapping, torture and murder”. 

This is despite the South African National Defence Force refuting the existence of a death squad operating within its ranks. The force was initially linked to the high-profile kidnapping of an alleged Islamic State financier.

The home of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in its bucolic neighborhood was the scene of a protest today organized by Code Pink in demanding that she join

For the better part of two decades, Oklahomans have voted by large margins to elect Republican candidates at both the state and federal level.No Democratic presidential candidate has won a

Democrats avoided fundraising in Hollywood because of the entertainment-industry strikes. Now the floodgates are opening.