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Johannesburg, South Africa: Where speaking out against corruption can be a death sentence.
WATCH 'South Africa's Whistleblower Hitmen' on YouTube now.
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Tonight after #c4news “We solve problems for rich people. That’s what we do.”
@nickbfilms, @JaneLipman and I have made a documentary in South Africa, where extreme wealth exists alongside desperate poverty. Corruption has created a deadly marketplace where money can buy murder.
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‘Whoever we find first, we kill.’
After exposing corruption in South Africa, Johannah Phenya and her husband Eric received death threats.
Weeks later, Eric was murdered in broad daylight.
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Hitmen are being regularly hired across South Africa to silence whistleblowers, and those who expose corruption are paying with their lives.
WATCH ‘South Africa’s Whistleblower Hitmen’ Friday 6th November at 7:30pm on @Channel4
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🇿🇦 As world leaders gather in Johannesburg for Africa’s first G20 summit this month, #BBCAfricaEye exposes a city in crisis - abandoned buildings ‘hijacked’ by criminals, and residents trapped in dangerous, unliveable conditions.
🎥 Watch the documentary: youtu.be/y-F6cFevo_M
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Ahead of the G20, is Johannesburg's city centre in ruins?
#BBCAfricaEye investigates. ⬇️
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Today amaBhungane begins publishing stories from Swazi Secrets - a multi-partner investigation coordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), to which we have contributed.
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Every morning when I wake up, I wonder if Israel’s army was going to kill another journalist in Gaza today - 79 since October 7. "By accident"? Remember how journalist Shireen Aby Akleh was executed by the IDF on 11 May 2022, no-one prosecuted? What kind of regime does this?
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Charles Michel’s decision to prematurely leave the EU Council presidency to pursue his own political career as MEP is not only self-centred but also irresponsible:
it will pave the way for Viktor Orbán, the then president of the rotating presidency of the Council to take over #EUCO until a new appointment.
But there’s (much) more.
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In “In Praise of Learning”, Bertolt Brecht argued that the radical, everyday act was to “Put your finger on each item, ask: how did it get here?”.
What forces, what relationships, what entanglements, sit behind the objects and infrastructures that make our world?
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“To be silent about his evil past would be to insult the memories of those thousands of lives he ended prematurely,” writes City Press editor-in-chief Mondli Makhanya.
Read more here: brnw.ch/21wCqlA
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South Africa has secured loan agreements of €600 million (R10.7 billion) from France and Germany to aid its transition away from coal and adopt cleaner energy sources like solar PV and wind. | @LameezOmarjee
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JUST IN | Human Rights Commission finds Malema's statements are incitement of violence, hate speech
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Breaking News: Meta, the parent company of Facebook, said it was laying off more than 11,000 workers after a steep slide in digital ad revenue and profit. nyti.ms/3DRjHD6
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Breaking News: Former Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan was shot in the leg at a rally, in what his aides have called a targeted attack.
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