Unreported World: South Africa's Whistleblower Hitmen

Channel 4

4:05 AM to 4:30 AM

Friday 13 November

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Darshna Soni reports from Johannesburg on the business of contract killers who are used to silence whistleblowers. South Africa has a thriving marketplace of hitmen, with killings commissioned through middlemen and carried out for relatively small sums. Once the preserve of gangland turf wars, a hitman's services are now used to settle scores across the country, with 141 targeted killings in 2022 alone