The Murder of Armand Swarts That Blew The Lid On Corruption At The Highest Level of Policing In South Africa

On a quiet April morning in 2024, 30-year-old engineer Armand Swart was gunned down in Vereeniging — hit with 23 bullets in what investigators immediately recognised as a professional execution.

At first, whispers claimed mistaken identity. But the truth revealed something darker: tender fraud, organised crime, and a murder value chain stretching from Transnet to the police ministry.

In this episode of Unsolved Murders SA, we trace how Swart’s killing exposed the dangerous intersection of corruption, assassination networks, and whistleblower silencing in South Africa.