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Municipal managers who bankrupt one town get quietly moved to run the next one. A council was shown proof that R100 million couldn't be accounted for, and chose to protect the man responsible rather than fire him. A docket has sat untouched for a year. And the official now suing DA parliamentary leader George Michalakis for speaking out is, by law, supposed to be politically neutral. Michalakis talks to Alec Hogg about the DA's "terrible ten", why he personally walked into police stations across four provinces to lay the charges, and what it will actually take to see a corrupt official behind bars before South Africans vote on 4 November.

The sacking of Major General Feroz Khan - who was tipped to be the next chief of Crime Intelligence (CI) in South Africa - has come amid speculation about who the really big villains behind the Big Five might be. In her latest interview with Chris Steyn, Juanita du Preez, the national spokesperson of Action Society, says: “...there were other people pulling strings and giving funding and so on because a lot of people had a lot to win in doing what they did…I think a lot of people who follow it very closely and have very intimate knowledge, they know and they are waiting to bring it in… people… want to see the people who were the big players in all of the corruption and the reason that we have so many problems, they want to see them suffer for what they've done.” Du Preez also comments on the latest Stats SA Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey that estimates that only 48,2% of the 1.549 million housebreaking incidents last year were reported to SAPS; calculations showing that nationally during 2024/25 eight million calls were received by 10111, but more than two million abandoned; as well as the long delays in getting cases through the courts.

Johannesburg could get its first outright DA majority in living memory, and John Endres thinks that single number, 50 percent, might matter more to South Africa's next twenty years than anything happening in parliament. In this wide-ranging Q&A from BNC#9, the IRR chief executive explains why talent and investment only come back to a broken city once they believe the coalition running it will last, why Jacob Zuma's MK Party is still one succession fight away from falling apart, why South Africa's small business obsession with 18-year-old entrepreneurs is the wrong bet, and why he'd still rather live here than in a Britain he says has traded its freedom for the illusion of safety.

South Africa's public servants have R3.6 trillion sitting in a pension fund that Wayne Duvenage calls a plunder pot, and he's not being polite about who's been dipping into it. In this Q&A from BNC#9 , the OUTA CEO takes on the PIC's revolving door of chairmen, explains why cadre deployment is really just a mechanism to loot state entities, and gives his most direct answer yet on whether Johannesburg can actually be saved. He also breaks down what the government of national unity is quietly getting right, why the ANC is heading for the exit, and what it would take to turn eighty percent of a captured city around within two years. Straight talk, hard numbers, and a few uncomfortable truths about where the money's really going.

Ramaphosa's impeachment inquiry loses its evidence leader just as his court challenge opens, Mashatile is still nowhere to be seen, and Dr Iraj Abedian tells Alec Hogg at BNC#9 that the world's only superpower has lost a war it won't admit to losing. Then Tatjana Smith, SA's most-decorated olympian, finally says out loud what she's been fighting behind closed doors after Swimming SA's president and CEO were suspended.