https://newsletter.po.creamermedia.com
Deepening Democracy through Access to Information
Home / News / All News RSS ← Back
Africa|Training
Africa|Training
africa|training
Close

Email this article

separate emails by commas, maximum limit of 4 addresses

Sponsored by

Close

Article Enquiry

South Africa delays hearing of DJ linked to Russia war recruiting


Close

South Africa delays hearing of DJ linked to Russia war recruiting

Should you have feedback on this article, please complete the fields below.

Please indicate if your feedback is in the form of a letter to the editor that you wish to have published. If so, please be aware that we require that you keep your feedback to below 300 words and we will consider its publication online or in Creamer Media’s print publications, at Creamer Media’s discretion.

We also welcome factual corrections and tip-offs and will protect the identity of our sources, please indicate if this is your wish in your feedback below.


Close

Embed Video

South Africa delays hearing of DJ linked to Russia war recruiting

SA and Russian flags
Photo by Bloomberg

10th February 2026

By: Bloomberg

SAVE THIS ARTICLE      EMAIL THIS ARTICLE

Font size: -+

A South African court postponed the case against a state radio presenter accused of organising the recruitment of people to fight for Russia against Ukraine for further investigation.

Nonkululeko Mantula, an employee of the South African Broadcasting Corporation, and four men she is accused of helping travel to Russia to fight, appeared at the Kempton Park Magistrates Court near Johannesburg on Tuesday. The case was postponed to April 29.

Advertisement

The five have not yet been asked to plead and their bail conditions remain the same.

Mantula was arrested at Johannesburg’s main airport in November alongside her co-accused. Her arrest came amid mounting concern that South Africans and other Africans are being recruited by Russia for its war.

Advertisement

Earlier in the month, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, a daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma, was linked to recruiting about 20 young men to go to Russia for a bodyguard-training course. When they got there, they were forced into the army, family members have said.

Kenya has said about 200 of its nationals were recruited to fight for Russia.

Working as a mercenary or fighting on behalf of another government, or assisting their military, has been a crime in South Africa since 1998.

EMAIL THIS ARTICLE      SAVE THIS ARTICLE      FEEDBACK

To subscribe email subscriptions@creamermedia.co.za or click here
To advertise email advertising@creamermedia.co.za or click here


About

Polity.org.za is a product of Creamer Media.
www.creamermedia.co.za

Other Creamer Media Products include:
Engineering News
Mining Weekly
Research Channel Africa

Read more

Subscriptions

We offer a variety of subscriptions to our Magazine, Website, PDF Reports and our photo library.

Subscriptions are available via the Creamer Media Store.

View store

Advertise

Advertising on Polity.org.za is an effective way to build and consolidate a company's profile among clients and prospective clients. Email advertising@creamermedia.co.za

View options

Email Registration Success

Thank you, you have successfully subscribed to one or more of Creamer Media’s email newsletters. You should start receiving the email newsletters in due course.

Our email newsletters may land in your junk or spam folder. To prevent this, kindly add newsletters@creamermedia.co.za to your address book or safe sender list. If you experience any issues with the receipt of our email newsletters, please email subscriptions@creamermedia.co.za