Azarrah Karrim

Students of PR: this is called a pre-emptive strike. News24 and @wicks_jeff have been promoting their “expose” tomorrow on the CEO of Medicare. Today @enca tries to help the dude to put the shit back in the donkey before it’s even come out.

Why national police commissioner Fannie Masemola will face charges tied to Cat Matlala news24.com/investigations…

REPORTING NOTES | Inside the News24 investigation that brought down ‘Matlala’s cops’ news24.com/investigations… via @news24

In May 2025, @wicks_jeff wrote about an internal audit report that had advised Masemola to cancel Matlala's R360m health contract with SAPS. He waited 103 days. And by the time he cancelled it, SAPS had paid R50 million to Matlala's company.

FIRST TAKE | Arrest of Matlala’s 12 cops is thanks to hard journalism – not IG influencers brnw.ch/21x11To

Grabbed at their desks: Inside top cop arrest blitz over Cat Matlala’s R360m police tender news24.com/investigations…

Rachel Matjeng - Petunia Lenono - Brian Cartwright. These are SAPS officers we know because we have exposed them. Read the full list here. No supposition or “it’s understood”. Just facts.

Read the FULL STORY @News24 tomorrow

Cat Matlala’s extraction network in the police was today decimated. Investigative journalism exposed the corrupt scheme, and law enforcement followed through. The full story on News24 at 5am tomorrow.

12 cops arrested in dramatic raids to join Cat Matlala in dock for R360m tender corruption news24.com/investigations…

Journalism as the foundation of justice and accountability. Keep an eye on @News24

Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala will face fresh charges of fraud, money laundering and corruption related to his tainted R360m SAPS tender. Senior police officers will join him in the dock. Three years of journalism. The latest on @news24 now and overnight.

‘Small fish’: ‘Bribed’ Prasa exec laughed at tenderpreneur Edwin Sodi’s R400m SARS troubles news24.com/investigations… via @news24

PKTT payday: At least R426m for Political Killings Task Team. But how it was spent is a mystery news24.com/investigations…

Top Tshwane officials wanted ‘Juju CIC’ endorsement of security tender winners news24.com/southafrica/cr…

It has been three years to the day that Cloete and Thomas Murray were killed. There have been no arrests. More here: Witness D, Murrays: ‘Hitmen’ in high-profile murders had past links to tobacco boss news24.com/investigations…

‘Disgraceful’: Johann Rupert battles former friend over multibillion rand Stellenbosch deal news24.com/investigations…

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Akkerland: The battle for truth in the era of blatant lies, disinformation news24.com/opinions/colum…