Jeff Wicks 🇿🇦
@wicks_jeff
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Investigative Journalist @News24. Author @NBPublishers Public speaker. Projects: #Hunted #TheShadowState #9Lives #Silenced #BloodBrothers #KillingKinnear
South Africa
Joined November 2014
49-year-old tenderpreneur Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala is a colourful character: disarticulate but impeccably dressed in high-end fashion brands. News24's @wicks_jeff writes about the man at the heart of the implosion of the country’s criminal justice cluster. https://t.co/HVup7s40QA
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Forty-nine-year-old tenderpreneur Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala is a colourful character: disarticulate but impeccably dressed in high-end fashion brands. We look at the man at the heart of the implosion of...
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Good piece. Maria Ressa's framework is fantastic.
Pieter du Toit | Masters of disinformation: Exposing Kriel, AfriForum’s MAGA playbook
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@Broughty80 @wicks_jeff @Paratus2014 @StarJay_23 @CowansView @PieterDuToit He’s always been one of them. You think this guy is an investigative journalist, he gets his pet projects directly from the ANC.
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An unambiguous threat - 'we will fight you bullet by bullet' - by a former SADF soldier, mentioning me by name. This is where we are now with the manufactured resurgence of militant Afrikaner neo-nationalism. Those fanning these flames should seriously rethink their actions
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Health DG Sandile Buthelezi has terminated an agreement with the Independent Development Trust to project manage upgrading critical hospitals, instead informing the entity of a due diligence probe into the programme. https://t.co/b2KJbRd08Q
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Let's be clear how insane this is - white afrikaners pretending to be refugees, who think black people wanna murder them, are having to tell black people from Kenya how hard it is being a white south african. Just before they go do Christmas shopping, surrounded by black people.
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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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Afrikaner genocide on hold for Christmas? Inside the Amerikaner refugee processing centre
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“Closed for Christmas” was the official line given at the makeshift Sandton “Afrikaner refugee” immigration centre when News24 visited on Wednesday.
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Beware of disinfo and malignant actors: Kenyans working in the 'Afrikaner refugee programme' at a non-diplomatic site were here illegally; no American official was arrested, and there is no evidence of harassment of 'refugees'. https://t.co/YB1YRiczGG via @news24
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Minister of Home Affairs Leon Schreiber has confirmed that the seven Kenyan nationals arrested at a US “refugee” centre in Johannesburg have self-deported from South Africa.
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If being near some BMA officials is considered harassment by some sliver of society, kinda makes you understand why they think there is a genocide. Happy to have survived another day!
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SA authorities issue deportation orders for illegal Kenyan ‘volunteers’ at US ‘refugee’ centre
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South African authorities, including the police and the Department of Home Affairs, served seven Kenyan nationals doing illegal paid work in Johannesburg with deportation orders on Wednesday.
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SA authorities issue deportation orders for illegal Kenyan ‘volunteers’ at US ‘refugee’ centre
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South African authorities, including the police and the Department of Home Affairs, served seven Kenyan nationals doing illegal paid work in Johannesburg with deportation orders on Wednesday.
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‘ANC has been hijacked to look corrupt’: ANCYL deputy urges youth to fight back
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Newly elected ANC Youth League deputy president Francisco Dyantyi says the ANC has been hijacked by people who want to portray the party as corrupt.
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Lured to his death: DJ Warras slain in suspected hijacked-building hit
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Former 5FM DJ and CliffCentral producer Warrick Stock, popularly known as DJ Warras, was gunned down execution-style in Johannesburg’s CBD in what investigators believe was a targeted hit linked to a...
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WAR AT HOME | Festive cheer meets festive fear as bullets, bloodshed ravage Western Cape
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As Christmas lights go up, so does the body count. Early warning signs show the Western Cape is once again sliding into its most violent season, with gang-related murders and serious assaults...
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UPDATE | ‘I’m broken’ - DJ Warras’ sister shattered after murder in Joburg CBD
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A man, believed to be a former radio DJ and producer, has been shot dead in Johannesburg’s CBD.
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Australia mass shooters linked to Islamic State after flags found in car - ABC report
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A father and son who killed 15 people attending a Jewish festival on Sydney’s Bondi Beach had possible links to the Islamic State group, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation said.
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Year of the hitman: Mpho Mafole and Bouwer van Niekerk are only two of 2025’s high-profile murders…how assassinations shape our body politic
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The hits on municipal auditor Mpho Mafole and liquidation lawyer Bouwer van Niekerk were the latest high-profile murders in a series of violent deaths of investigators probing corruption and malfea...
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So well written, and by a tight-head, no less! >> Claustrophobic, terrifying … but electrifying: please save our scrums https://t.co/Z1ka36fYx8
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Rugby union can’t grow if we depower the scrum — instead we must demystify it, just as UFC has been transformed by releasing the secrets of its dark arts
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