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A recent Financial Intelligence Center (FIC) risk assessment on terrorism financing in the non-profit organization (NPO) sector has detailed more than a dozen instances where South African NPOs have played a role in financing terrorism. The report, which was compiled with the support of the European Union Anti-Money Laundering (AML)/Counter Terrorist Financing Global Facility (CFT), and with financial support...

South African opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, has today announced its intent to file a complaint with the country’s Public Protector, Khulekani Gcaleka, over information obtained from a leaked recording of an African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting. What You Need to Know: In a statement released today, the DA claims it will provide “new and damning evidence...

In recent months, the South African populace has become the audience to a renewed legal squabble between Jacob Zuma, leader of South Africa’s rising uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party and President Cyril Ramaphosa’s African National Congress (ANC).  A Renewed Legal Battle?: After serving nine years as President, Jacob Zuma was made to step down at the behest of the ANC in February...

As South Africa heads to its very important general elections next month, recent words from South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signal a potential change in South Africa's approach to their military intervention in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Winds of Change As the security situation within the eastern DRC continues to deteriorate, DRC President Felix Tshisekedi has sought a...

Despite South Africa’s Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, stating on Monday that the Western Cape receives more resources than other Provinces, 47 murders were committed between 4am Saturday and 5am Monday. Civic rights groups allege the province’s Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) lacks essential equipment such as radios, relying on their personal cell phones and mobile data to communicate during call...