{"id":237492,"date":"2026-06-26T17:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-all-of-africa-today-june-26-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:48:13","slug":"africa-all-of-africa-today-june-26-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-all-of-africa-today-june-26-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: All of Africa Today &#8211; June 26, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><strong>Key Figure in South African Police Graft Scandal Pleads Guilty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"129\">Businessman Vusimusi &#8220;Cat&#8221; Matlala has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606250152.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pleaded guilty<\/a> to corruption, fraud and money-laundering charges in a deal with state prosecutors. He was accused of bribing top police officials to win a R360 million tender for his health company, Medicare24, in 2024. If the agreement is approved by the court, Matlala will serve an <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606250590.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eight-year prison sentence<\/a>. He will also be able to testify against senior officials implicated in the case&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606260142.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Key Figure in South African Police Graft Scandal Pleads Guilty Businessman Vusimusi &#8220;Cat&#8221; Matlala has\u00a0pleaded guilty to corruption, fraud and money-laundering charges in a deal with state prosecutors. He was accused of bribing top police officials to win a R360 million tender for his health company, Medicare24, in 2024. If the agreement is approved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":237493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,6183,6555,1218,7486,257,254,6637],"class_list":["post-237492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-june","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}