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Katiso Molefe's relationship to a police officer as a hitman is revealed by the Madlanga Commission

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    35% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    12% Somewhat Right

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Bias Score Analysis

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-51% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Disputable businessman and murder suspect Katiso "KT" Molefe and police officer Warrant Officer Michael Pule Tau, among others, were at the center of the murder of Armand Swart, an employee of a Vereeniging engineering company, who was shot dead after alleged hitmen mistaken him for his boss, according to cellphone evidence, CCTV footage, and vehicle tracking data provided by Witness A at the commission.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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