South Africa News

Report: Ramaphosa listed as target for phone surveillance

It’s now emerged that President Cyril Ramaphosa’s phone was on a list of targets for potential surveillance in the Pegasus spyware case.

New evidence uncovered by The Pegasus Project has revealed that the phone numbers for 14 heads of state, including Ramaphosa, French President Emmanuel Macron, Pakistan’s Imran Khan as well as hundreds of government officials, were selected as people of interest by clients of spyware company the NSO Group.

The UK’s Guardian newspaper reported that President Ramaphosa appeared to have been selected by Rwanda in 2019.

An investigation published on Sunday by 17 media organizations, led by the Paris-based non-profit journalism group Forbidden Stories, revealed that the spyware, made and licensed by the Israeli company had been used in attempted and successful hacks of smartphones belonging to journalists, government officials, and human rights activists on a global scale.

-EWN

In other news – Big blow as Babes Wodumo, Cassper Nyovest, Master KG & these other artists’ music to be taken off-air

Mzansi stars; Babes Wodumo, Cassper Nyovest, Black Coffee, Kelly Khumalo, MasterKG, DJ Maphorisa, and Kaba de Small are some of the artists whose music will be removed from the SABC radio and television stations playlist.

Babes Wodumo and Cassper Nyovest

The South African Music Performance Rights Association (Sampra) is going the litigation route after the SABC ignored several letters from the organization to pay royalties to them. Learn More