The stories we couldn’t look away from this year

The biggest stories of 2025, from courtroom showdowns and cartel exposes to the deaths of soldiers and a child-trafficking horror, tell how vulnerable South Africans are to capture, exploitation, corruption and grief as the state fails.

The stories we couldn’t look away from this year
The biggest stories of 2025, from courtroom showdowns and cartel exposes to the deaths of soldiers and a child-trafficking horror, tell how vulnerable South Africans are to capture, exploitation, corruption and grief as the state fails.