Kyle Cowan
@CowansView
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Investigative journalist @News24. Motorcycle racing fanatic. Email me - [email protected] or visit https://t.co/TMo7pwuAUn
Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined May 2012
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Obsessed? Kind of an overstatement. Have you read anything else News24 publishes? And compared the volume of that with the volume of commentary or reporting on these subjects you mention? Have you considered that your view on this is skewed because algorithms feed it to you?
@CowansView @kalliekriel Kyle, I have never in my life seen a media house so obsessed with: 1. A single civil rights organisations. 2. Podcast bros. Two things these two have in common: 1. They don't need MSM. 2. Both extremely critical of the ruling party. Please tell me why is that? Cause it's
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Interesting points raised. @kalliekriel why not release the names of the journalists you claim are being paid by gvt? Pieter du Toit | Masters of disinformation: Exposing Kriel, AfriForum’s MAGA playbook
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Disinformation doesn’t happen in a vacuum, nor is it the product of happenstance. Kallie Kriel and AfriForum are past masters at creating and amplifying it, writes Pieter du Toit.
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US ‘refugee’ centre in SA: Illegal Kenyan workers ignored repeated visa rejections
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The seven Kenyan nationals who assisted in processing so-called Afrikaner “refugees” on behalf of the United States government made several visa applications to South African authorities – but were...
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A graphic in this May 2025 story is suddenly the subject of false narratives on this app. Weird. Read the actual article and decide for yourself. ‘X-Boer’: How Twatterbaas became a bridge between SA conservatives, MAGA universe
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Sebastiaan Jooste, who runs the @twatterbaas X account, became a critical link between South African conservatives and MAGA supporters of Donald Trump in the US, and the far right in Europe, who have...
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Correction: the graphic was first published in May. ‘X-Boer’: How Twatterbaas became a bridge between SA conservatives, MAGA universe
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Sebastiaan Jooste, who runs the @twatterbaas X account, became a critical link between South African conservatives and MAGA supporters of Donald Trump in the US, and the far right in Europe, who have...
Classic. This graphic was first published in April. Which you would have known had you actually read the reporting at the time instead of just blindly parroting lies about it.
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Well, the meaning of the infographic is quite plain. It happens to be written at the top of it. It was also first published in April. Quite strange that you are all having a go at it now.
I see @CowansView has put me on a list alongside a number of other people. I have already asked him to clarify what exactly he and his publication are implying here. Perhaps I need to tag his employers to get an answer: @News24 @AdriaanBasson @PieterDuToit
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Classic. This graphic was first published in April. Which you would have known had you actually read the reporting at the time instead of just blindly parroting lies about it.
South Africa’s establishment media is compiling lists of people who engage with content the regime does not approve of. @elonmusk
@AgentLeonV3
@EndWokeness
@ConCaracal
@k9_reaper
@iamyesyouareno
@SkyeZedA
@StopPlaasmoorde
@sazaross
@TheKiffness
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FESTIVE READING | Malema to Mashatile: Shocking books on corruption in SA’s shadow state
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Corrupt networks permeate the South African state and all of society, from the taxi industry to construction to the ‘hospital mafia’.
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Mass retrenchments averted as Eskom extends last-minute lifeline to smelters https://t.co/wEYqEHOgIp via @News24_Business
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Eskom has signed an agreement with ferrochrome smelters, setting in motion a three-month process to design a sustainable electricity pricing solution to stabilise the embattled sector.
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Weekend Essay | SA is at war with itself – but we refuse to use the tools we have to fight corruption by @CowansView
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Two deaths on a Johannesburg highway sent a chilling message. Cloete and Thomas Murray weren’t random victims – they were effective corruption fighters, liquidators who had taken on state capture...
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He'll be starting a podcast soon.
Welcome home boet. Man whose Australian visa was revoked after attending neo-Nazi rally returns to SA
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Wow, Martin. That's such a great, enlightened way to encourage debate - calling everyone who disagrees with a narrative you built on very shaky foundations "village idiots". Remarkable, it's almost like you have already decided you are the only one who is right, ever.
When we posted about this a month ago, the usual chorus of "this is fake news, there are no race laws!" village idiots came out the woodwork. They are notably absent under this official post by the land reform department. One wonders why the cat got their tongues.
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Conned into combat: MKP invoiced R20k for one-way ticket to war for men fighting for Russia
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Despite insisting it had nothing to do with sending 17 men to Russia for “bodyguard training”, News24 can reveal that the MK Party was invoiced for at least one of the men’s flights to that country.
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amaBhungane | A Lotto trouble: Marketing firm’s claims against new lottery operator land on minister’s desk by @azarrahk
https://t.co/HViVSYxAbA
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A company involved in Sizekhaya Holdings’ successful bid to run South Africa’s national lottery has urgently appealed to Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Parks Tau to step into what has...
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amaBhungane | A Lotto trouble: Marketing firm’s claims against new lottery operator land on minister’s desk by @azarrahk
https://t.co/HViVSYy818
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A company involved in Sizekhaya Holdings’ successful bid to run South Africa’s national lottery has urgently appealed to Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Parks Tau to step into what has...
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ANALYSIS | South Africa’s dirty-money problem is bigger than we think https://t.co/5GIrzqxBtu via @news24
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If South Africa wants to truly turn the page on its grey listing, it must double down on tackling organised crime in all its forms: following the money, rooting out corruption, and committing to...
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No, Theo. This is City Press. They share a publication platform with News24, but it's a completely different editorial team. The media is accountable and mistakes fixed, whereas you and your friends get to put out misleading information all the time without any consequences.
If the same media house is forced to apologise and rectify their reporting over and over again, there should be some kind of punishment forcing them to change their management or to fine their editors! It's News24 again
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Same car, new wife: Cat Matlala’s blue light lies unravel with new Sun City holiday video by @wicks_jeff
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Cat Matlala denied using illegal blue lights in his parliamentary testimony, blaming his ex-wife instead. But damning new Instagram footage from current wife Tsakani shows her travelling in the exact...
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Mathipa murder: Bail for Special Forces soldiers was ‘grievous’ error, judge says
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The Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg has reserved judgment in an appeal by prosecutors seeking to overturn the decision to grant bail to 12 Special Forces soldiers accused of murdering Hawks...
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It amazes me that we use words like "plots" when speaking about taking on a person who committed criminal conduct while running the police, ie Phahlane. Is South Africa a place where we must collude, connive and conspire to see the rule of law implemented? It appears so.
Mchunu aide claims he met O’Sullivan, DA, AfriForum members to ‘plot Phahlane’s removal’
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