Sep 24, 2026 · 32 min · 8 segments
Rob Rose and Zukile Majova return for episode 26 of Sharp Sharp, the weekly podcast on politics, money and power from the Financial Mail and Scrolla.Africa. The pressure is building on Fikile…
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But I mean, what we certainly don't have is any vestige of a policing system that works.
Last week on the show, we talked a lot about the deaths in Akuraleni and the fact that our police seem to be totally clueless against this.
We talked a lot about how, you know, our politicians and our leaders are sending the wrong message around fighting crime.
And this week we've had perhaps the most arresting part of it, which is the Deputy National Police Commissioner, Shadrach Sabir, who's already on suspension, arrested and charged for grooming young women, for sexual assault of young women.
Rob, last night, just last night, you know, we got messages that this is what's going on.
And we wake up this morning, 14 people have been shot, 11 dead in KZN, including a pregnant lady in Gwamakuta.
You know, now you have a situation where the National Commissioner was on the dock recently.
So Masamoro, the case against Masamoro was dropped for corruption essentially this week.
And now we have the case that, well, actually it was PFMA dodginess according to that.
that you were going to explain that, Rob, the new law now that if you are the chief accounting officer, whatever has happened in your department, ultimately you are the one who's going to end up on the dock explaining what has happened.
But I mean, what we certainly don't have is any vestige of a policing system that works.
Last week on the show, we talked a lot about the deaths in Akuraleni and the fact that our police seem to be totally clueless against this.
We talked a lot about how, you know, our politicians and our leaders are sending the wrong message around fighting crime.
And this week we've had perhaps the most arresting part of it, which is the Deputy National Police Commissioner, Shadrach Sabir, who's already on suspension, arrested and charged for grooming young women, for sexual assault of young women.
Rob, last night, just last night, you know, we got messages that this is what's going on.
And we wake up this morning, 14 people have been shot, 11 dead in KZN, including a pregnant lady in Gwamakuta.
You know, now you have a situation where the National Commissioner was on the dock recently.
So Masamoro, the case against Masamoro was dropped for corruption essentially this week.
And now we have the case that, well, actually it was PFMA dodginess according to that.
that you were going to explain that, Rob, the new law now that if you are the chief accounting officer, whatever has happened in your department, ultimately you are the one who's going to end up on the dock explaining what has happened.
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