Sunday Times’ journalists published a four series stories on SA’s crisis with ISIS. In the story on the repatriations Aron Hyman, Multi-award-winning Investigative journalist for Timeslive, interviewed UN contacts working in the ISIS refugee camps in Syria.
On another story Graeme Hosken, Crime and Military Reporter at Sunday Times AND Tankiso Makhetha, an investigative reporter at TimesLIVE interviewed police contacts within the Hawks and Crimes Against the State unit conducting investigations into ISIS people being repatriated to SA and ISIS operations in SA.
In the story on the ISIS financing from businesses in the informal sector, Aron focused on investigations into ISIS financing from KZN and Western Cape which is going to support ISIS operations in Mozambique.
Tankiso and Graeme looked at the Gauteng ISIS operations and how the systems of financing companies operating in SA have been hijacked and used illicitly to send money for operations in the horn of Africa. Then Graeme wrote the story on Financial Intelligence Centre and the difficulties on investigating terrorism financing.
He also wrote the article on the Ethiopian Oromo community which has been highly vocal against ISIS in SA and who has had numerous members including Imam's killed for speaking out against ISIS in SA.
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