Crime 2 November 2026, 14:29

BENT COP: Cape Town cop convicted of murder, supplying intelligence to the 28s Mobsters gang

A Western Cape High Court judgment has laid bare the danger of organised crime penetrating the very institution tasked with fighting it.

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