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Faces of the cartel emerge in the Madlanga Commissionâs âBig Fiveâ reveal (opens the original)
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Finally, the faces of some of the alleged leaders of the âBig Fiveâ cartel have been revealed after months of testimony at the Madlanga Commission. For months the Madlanga Commission had circled a name without a face, the âBig Fiveâ, a syndicate spoken of in whispers, WhatsApp logs and reluctant testimony from senior police officers who seemed more afraid of the cartel than of the commission itself. That changed on 2 September 2026, when the inquiry finally put faces to the name, tabling
Madlanga Commission reveals how implicated figures used security apparatus to wield immense power (opens the original)
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Evidence before the Madlanga Commission illustrates how security companies have become shadow militia, used by criminals to access tenders and guns that they use to intimidate the opposition Thando Nzimande is a Wits alumnus, a Future Voices scholar and researcher at Meari, a neuroscience researcher and economic and geopolitical commentator/analyst. The Madlanga Commission has pulled back the curtain on a South Africa where the instruments of state power have been repurposed to serve private cri
City of Chaos â the fight for Joziâs mayoral chain (opens the original)
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The battle for the mayorship of SAâs richest city is about credibility ahead of the 2029 general election, but in the end, it will be the bargaining between parties that will decide the race. Thando Nzimande is a Wits alumnus, a Future Voices scholar and researcher at Meari, a neuroscience researcher and economic and geopolitical commentator/analyst. There are now at least 10 parties with a named candidate for the mayorship of Johannesburg, and the crowd on that list tells its own story about
Political proliferation is leaving South African voters politically homeless (opens the original)
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In the upcoming elections South Africans will have a choice of political parties like never before, but with more parties fighting for a finite pool of council seats there is an increased chance that no single party garners enough votes to govern outright. Thando Nzimande is a Wits alumnus, a Future Voices scholar and researcher at Meari, a neuroscience researcher and economic and geopolitical commentator/analyst. South Africa will offer its voters more political choice on 4 November than at any
After the deadline: What did SAâs anti-immigration march actually achieve? (opens the original)
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March and March has achieved something that no civic organisation has managed in years, and that is putting a single domestic issue at the top of national politics and keeping it there. Thando Nzimande is a Wits alumnus, a Future Voices scholar and researcher at Meari, a neuroscience researcher and economic and geopolitical commentator/analyst. The goal was never subtle. The movement popularised a deadline of 30 June 2026 for all undocumented immigrants to leave South Africa, with its founder wa
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