Lindiwe Mpanza

The high court in Johannesburg has found Gerhard Ackerman (52) guilty of rape and sexual exploitation of children. The convicted rapist faced more than 730 charges, which included human trafficking, sexual grooming and possession of child pornography. Ackerman was charged alongside senior advocate Paul Kennedy who committed suicide shortly after he was arrested in 2022. The 52-year-old used his massage parlour to house the young victims and forced them to […]

While questions remain on the criminality that took place at President Cyril Ramaphosa's controversial Phala Phala farm, some of the country's biggest and most crucial public entities have exonerated the statesman. The alleged theft of foreign currency at the president's Limpopo farm in 2020 has cast a dark cloud over Ramaphosa and his administration. It seems that the widely publicised theft will still haunt the President even in the year […]