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Published 03/09/22
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Published 03/02/22
This week, in the final episode of Too Many Enemies, we attend the "fight of the century" in Las Vegas (Mayweather vs Pacquiao) and investigate the final pieces in the puzzle of billionaire businessman Wandile Bozwana's murder. They involve a R1 million payoff, a flashy government minister and the bank account of a famous DJ.
Produced and presented by Paul McNally.
Created by Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime and Develop Audio.
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Published 07/06/21
This week, in the penultimate episode of Too Many Enemies, producer Paul McNally shifts his focus from the murder of billionaire Wandile Bozwana to investigate Southern Africa’s assassinations crisis and how terrifyingly commonplace hits have become in the region.
McNally goes back twenty years to one of the most infamous assassinations: the killing of acclaimed Mozambican journalist and editor Carlos Cardoso. Cardoso, who was investigating a $14-million fraud linked to the privatisation of...
Published 06/29/21
A KwaZulu-Natal taxi boss and alleged triggerman in the assassination of billionaire businessman Wandile Bozwana has been arrested, six years after the killing that sent shockwaves through political and business circles in South Africa.
Produced and presented by Paul McNally.
Created by Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime and Develop Audio.
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Published 06/22/21
In this week's episode of Too Many Enemies, producer Paul McNally heads to the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, to see Vusi "Khekhe" Mathibela and his co-accused in the flesh.
Produced and presented by Paul McNally.
Created by Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime and Develop Audio.
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Published 06/15/21
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Published 06/09/21
In the second episode of Too Many Enemies, producer Paul McNally sets out to investigate allegations that the hit was ordered by prominent ANC politician, Supra Mahumapelo, while he was the premier of the North West Province. Just kilometres away from where Bozwana was shot, he meets a source, who gives him insight into the evidence police have gathered on the Bozwana assassination case. McNally also speaks to SABC political journalist, Samkelo Maseko, about Mahumapelo's controversial...
Published 06/08/21
Billionaire businessman Wandile Bozwana was gunned down in a hail of bullets in Pretoria in October 2015 when he stopped at a traffic light. He died at the age of 43.
Too Many Enemies, a new podcast series produced by Paul McNally, will explore this assassination in detail over the next six weeks. It is a story involving top politicians, taxi bosses and assassins.
The series will look at what the assassination of Bozwana means for the state of politics, crime and justice in South Africa...
Published 06/01/21
Paul confronts one of the teachers who has been accused of being involved in the killing.
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Published 02/24/20
Paul tries to uncover the findings of a private investigator who has been working on the case... but instead finds a second female teacher who has been assassinated right in the same city.
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Published 02/17/20
Paul takes aim at the gaps that are plaguing the case and uncovers threats towards the School Governing Body, a brave man at the centre of the story and an obvious cry for help from Priscilla before she died.
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Published 02/10/20
Paul gets a new revelation from Siya and finally makes some progress with the police...
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Published 02/03/20
This episode we meet Dumisani (Siya's father) and dig into his opinions on the case. And we muster the courage to take a trip to Glebelands hostel.
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Published 01/27/20
Volume's award-winning investigative journalist Paul McNally wades into the conspiracy-laden world of professional jealousy and hired hit-men in an attempt to find out what really happened at Laduma High, and who was behind the assassination of Priscilla Mchunu.
Published 01/20/20
Coming 21st of January 2020 wherever you get your podcasts.
Priscilla Mchunu was a 54-year-old acting principal when she was assassinated. She was gunned down with an astonishing 19 bullets while teaching her high school history class. An entire class of Laduma High students watched her murder and still, more than two years later, no arrests have been made.
This is the story of Priscilla’s assassination. Who would kill an acting principal and why? How do you investigate a case when anyone...
Published 12/08/19
Alibi is produced by Paul McNally for SAFM in conjunction with Wits Radio Academy, Wits Justice Project and as part of Citizen Justice Network.
Presented by: Freddy Mabitsela & Paul McNally
Additional production and music composed by: John Bartmann
Mixed by: Kutlwano Serame
Additional scripting by: Elna Schutz
Editorial help by: Tom McNally, Gavin Haynes and Kyla Herrmannsen
Editorial oversight by: Franz Kruger & Nooshin Erfani
Published 01/31/19
Our series concludes with finding a lawyer to help, a cop to tell his story and a prison warder to argue for our guy’s innocence.
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Produced by Paul McNally & Wits Journalism.
Published 04/23/17
In episode 7 we finally track down where Anthony's co-accused have been all these years... and what we discover makes it more astounding that he was ever convicted.
Read more about this episode here: http://alibi.org.za/wordpress/index.php/2017/04/25/alibi-ep7-sa-podcast-probes-why-a-man-was-given-terrible-legal-help-and-whether-his-co-accused-suffered-the-same-fate/
Produced by Paul McNally & Wits Journalism.
Published 04/16/17
In the sixth episode of the podcast series Alibi we are put into a spiral as we try to understand an injury from over twenty years ago.
The show that tells a story over eight weeks is trying to discover if one man, Anthony De Vries, is guilty or innocent of the crimes that put him in prison.
What we discover here reframes the extent that evidence can be manipulated… and how paperwork, even from doctors, can lie.
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Published 04/09/17
In the fifth episode of the podcast series Alibi we get closer to discovering if Anthony De Vries is guilty or innocent of the crimes that put him in jail for most of his life. It involves focusing on the injuries from when he was tortured - they hold the important secrets.
Read more about this episode here: http://alibi.org.za/wordpress/index.php/2017/04/25/alibi-ep-5-a-deep-look-at-how-a-man-was-tortured-to-figure-out-if-he-was-innocent-of-murder/
Produced by Paul McNally & Wits...
Published 04/02/17
In this episode we go on a car chase with the cops, with AK-47s being fired in retaliation and make a discovery that changes the case completely.
We spend a morning in a Wimpy eating bacon and eggs and find a second set of statements, ones that never made it to trial, that give us a completely different picture of our guy, Anthony.
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Published 03/26/17
In this episode we visit the bloody scene of our double murder and robbery from 1994 and stand in the Checkers shopping centre exactly where the two victims were murdered
When the centrepiece of your crime happened in front of a video shop in the 90s you need to peak behind plenty of movie posters to find those bullet holes...
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Published 03/19/17
In this second episode we have a panga fight, find masses of brotherly love and uncover an important deception that could sabotage the whole series...
Read more about this episode here: http://alibi.org.za/wordpress/index.php/2017/04/17/south-african-serial-podcast-continues-with-a-panga-fight-a-paralysing-shootout-and-talk-of-a-movie/
Produced by Paul McNally & Wits Journalism.
Published 03/12/17
The story starts with Paul bringing to Freddy what he thinks could be a wrongful conviction case. It is about a man called Anthony De Vries and he has been in jail for 17 years.
Read more about this episode here: http://alibi.org.za/wordpress/index.php/2017/03/17/south-african-serial-podcast-starts-with-a-bloody-90s-heist-and-ramps-up-from-there/
Produced by Paul McNally & Wits Journalism.
Published 03/02/17