Thursday, 20 August 2026

Fadiel Adams told the Madlanga Commission crime intelligence is “compromised”, used for political battles and patronage, and claimed his whistleblowing made him a target of the Political Killings Task Team.

He said crime intelligence budgets are skewed, contrasting the PKTT’s R100 million annual budget for about 130 dockets with the Cape Flats anti-gang unit’s roughly R2,600 per murder docket for about 8,000 cases.

Parliament’s police committee is starting a gang-violence inquiry built around community input, while Ian Cameron said police operations must not be mistaken for real solutions and corruption has to be tackled from the top.

Government is preparing a sweeping overhaul of electricity pricing, with a bigger free basic electricity allowance of 200 to 300 kWh mooted for indigent households and a centralised system to stop municipalities redirecting the funds.

Police found more than 100 illegal items in raids at three Alexandra high schools, including disposable vapes, glass shards, matchboxes and scissors, amid warnings that school violence reflects wider community trauma and crime.