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title: "NEWSFLASH: Sunday Times journalist arrested"
description: "Mzilikazi wa Afrika, a journalist with the Sunday Times, has just been marched out of the Times headquarters in Rosebank by police. His arrest is apparently in connection with a fraudulent resignation letter from the Premier of Mpumalanga. Wa Afrika is one of the journalists who wrote the story on police commissioner Bheki Cele last week in the Sunday Times, which questioned a R500 million lease for a new police headquarters. Read more: TimesLive"
type: "NewsArticle"
publisher: "Daily Maverick"
site: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za"
section: "Politics"
author: "Andy Rice"
author_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/author/andyrice/"
canonical_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2010-08-04-newsflash-sunday-times-journalist-arrested/"
published: "2010-08-04T12:12:28"
updated: "2013-02-01T20:03:01"
lang: "en-ZA"
word_count: 1
---

# NEWSFLASH: Sunday Times journalist arrested

> Mzilikazi wa Afrika, a journalist with the Sunday Times, has just been marched out of the Times headquarters in Rosebank by police. His arrest is apparently in connection with a fraudulent resignation letter from the Premier of Mpumalanga. Wa Afrika is one of the journalists who wrote the story on police commissioner Bheki Cele last week in the Sunday Times, which questioned a R500 million lease for a new police headquarters. Read more: [TimesLive](http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article585460.ece/Sunday-Times-reporter-arrested)

By Andy Rice · Published 4 August 2010, 14:12 SAST · Updated 1 February 2013, 22:03 SAST

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