News24 | PODCAST | The Lead: Witness F’s WhatsApps to Matlala, Sibiya and Mabuza

Not a week goes by without another Madlanga Commission revelation knocking the wind out of our stomach for hard news.

They are one of the most critical witnesses yet…

In the Madlanga Commission’s view, the implicated police officer known as Witness F was the “go-between” for Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala and General Shadrack Sibiya.

The commission, as legal journalist Karyn Maughan reports, is leading Witness F’s sensitive WhatsApp messages that also reveal talk of some sort of arms deal with the apparent nephew of the late former deputy president, David Mabuza.
Later, in our trending topic; are these John Steenhuisen’s final days as DA leader? Some sources suggest so ahead of the party’s April elective congress.

Finally, the historic ‘Wind of Change’ speech was delivered in Parliament, On This Day in SA History heard later.

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